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Class 455/436 - Handoff


Subclass of Class 455 - Telecommunications
Definition: Subject matter wherein a mobile station during a call is
No. of applications: 1755
Last issue date: 05/24/2012


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Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20100291928WIRELESS CALL HANDOFF
A device is configured to detect a wireless device and determine if the wireless device is participating in a telephone call with a remote party. The device is further configured to establish a first voice communication link with the remote party, and establish a second...
11/18/2010
20100285804APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PERMITTING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TRANSITION BASED UPON SIGNAL THRESHOLD DETERMINATION
A method and apparatus of optimizing transitioning between EVDO and CDMA 1X systems in a hybrid access terminal, the method having the steps of: preventing a reconnect data call from being sent from the hybrid access terminal. The preventing step including checking whet...
11/11/2010
20100285802COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
A mobile communications system is proposed in which mobile communications devices are arranged to carry out signal measurements on the signals received from neighbouring cells. The bandwidth over which these signal measurements are carried out is determined in dependenc...
11/11/2010
20100285803Offered Bit Rate At Handover
The invention relates to a method in a second communication node within a communications network supporting a handover process of a first communication device from a first cell in the communications network to a second cell of the second communication node in the commun...
11/11/2010
20100285805MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION METHOD
There is provided a multi-carrier communication method capable of preventing lowering of a throughput of another mobile device accompanying allocation of a sub-carrier for a new mobile station device. This multi-carrier communication method can acquire reception quality...
11/11/2010
20100279687ACCESS MODE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL
Access control for an access point (e.g., a cell of the access point) may be based on an access mode associated with the access point. For example, depending on the access mode, access control may involve performing a membership check for the access point. Such a member...
11/04/2010
20100278146CELL SELECTION SYSTEM, CELL SELECTION METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL
A cell selection system is for selecting a cell to be used for communications by a mobile terminal (1) in a network having a cell of a mobile phone network and a plurality of WLAN cells included in the cell. Broadcast information including cell selection informat...
11/04/2010
20100279693METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROCESS SIGNAL STRENGTHS OF NOT ALLOWED CELLS DURING CELL RESELECTION
Methods and apparatus to process signal strengths of not allowed cells during cell reselection are disclosed. An example cell reselection method disclosed herein comprises obtaining cell information indicating whether signal strength of a first neighbor cell not allowed...
11/04/2010
20100279694DISPLAY PANEL STRUCTURE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND MOBILE INFORMATION EQUIPMENT
A display panel includes a display element having, on a front face of the display element, a screen, and a metal holding member for holding the display element together on a back face of the display element. A holding member is provided with a plurality of catch portion...
11/04/2010
20100279689IDLE HANDOFF TO HYBRID FEMTO CELL BASED ON SYSTEM SELECTION DATABASE
Devices and methods are provided for facilitating handing over to a hybrid femto access point that implements multiple radio access technologies (RATs), including a first RAT and a second RAT. In one embodiment, the method involves detecting a pilot from the hybrid femt...
11/04/2010
20100279691Indicating Radio Access Technology Information to Mobile Stations System and Method
An access node. The access node includes a component configured to communicate with a mobile station operating on one of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The component is configured to communicate a permission to the mobile station to attempt to i...
11/04/2010
20100279692MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND EXCHANGE
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting, from a NAS function to an S1-AP function, a NAS-PDU; transmitting, from the S1-AP function to the NAS function, a retransmission request for the NAS-PDU, when receiving...
11/04/2010
20100273490COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
A communication system comprises: mobile user equipment; and a communication network adapted to communicate with the user equipment, the communication network comprising: a first base station adapted to communicate with the user equipment using radio signals and accordi...
10/28/2010
20100273489Method for Reselections in the Presence of Femto Cells
A method for performing cell reselection in a cellular communication network including determining a first receive power and a first pathloss of a signal from a first cell, determining a second receive power and an upper bound on a second pathloss of a signal from a sec...
10/28/2010
20100273487AUTOMATIC HANDOVER OSCILLATION CONTROL
A method and apparatus are provided for use in a cellular radio communication system for adjusting a handover parameter. Information is collected regarding actual handovers that have occurred between one or more pairs of cells as well as handover failures. The collected...
10/28/2010
20100273486SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING BATTERY POWER
A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system, and a method for optimizing battery power resources are described. The wireless communication device comprises a rechargeable battery, a control module, and a display. The control module is configured to ...
10/28/2010
20100273488APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING PERFORMANCE BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION OF MOBILE STATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
An apparatus and method for improving transmitting/receiving performance based on location information of a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system are provided. The method includes measuring coordinates of the MS to obtain the location information by using a navi...
10/28/2010
20100267387BASE STATION FOR A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR
A base station (101) for a cellular communication system comprises a transceiver (301) which receives measurement reports from a plurality of user equipments (107) served by the base station (101). The measurement reports comprise receive sig...
10/21/2010
20100267373 METHOD OF DETECTING INCORRECT CELL IDENTITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
By transmitting the Measurement cell identity (MCI), in addition to the PCI PLMN cell identity (PCI), in a request to a node, an MCI to PCI mismatch is early discovered by the node and reported to the source eNode B. The handover procedure can be aborted in an earlier s...
10/21/2010
20100267378RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM
When a mobile terminal experienced a radio link failure in a first cell and establishes a re-connection in a second cell within a predefined time and/or within a preset movement distance from the time of the radio link failure, the mobile terminal reports at least one o...
10/21/2010
20100267386METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING HANDOFF BETWEEN A FEMTOCELL BASE STATION AND A CELLULAR BASE STATION
A user may enter information about a cellular base station into a femtocell base station. A user may enter information about a femtocell base station into a subscriber station. A femtocell base station may receive a neighbor list from a cellular base station, and broadc...
10/21/2010
20100267388AUTO CONFIGURATION OF MOBILITY ENTITY
Extend the S1-AP protocol to include signaling where the eNodeB's reports all identified geographical relationship between TAs to the MME. When the MME is required to populate a Restriction List it will use the acquired information to only consider TAs that are adjacent...
10/21/2010
20100261475METHOD OF INITIALIZING AND ESTABLISHING LINKS IN A MULTI-MODE MOBILE TERMINAL
A method of performing a handover with at least one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises establishing a heterogeneous network handover module for converging information from the at least one network interface m...
10/14/2010
20100261469APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODE SELECTION FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises measuring a first link quality of a first link based at least in part on a first power value; measuring a second link quality of a second link based at least in part ...
10/14/2010
20100255844DEDICATED SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT
Optimization of the LTE handover procedure is provided by presenting alternatives for allocating a dedicated signature used for contention-free random access during the handover procedure as well as using an expiry time for a dedicated signature and different alternativ...
10/07/2010
20100255845RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE
A radio terminal (100) according to a present invention stores a handover threshold in association with an application being executed, when the communication quality of the application is degraded, the handover threshold being based on a piece of radio state info...
10/07/2010
20100255846Inter-MSC Handover In A Communications Network
There is provided a method and apparatus for handling handover of a mobile terminal in a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network comprises both radio access network and core network portions. Handover is from a source cell served by a source Mob...
10/07/2010
20100255843METHODS FOR INTEGRATING CELL MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES OF A COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES UTILIZING THE SAME
A communication apparatus is provided. The communication apparatus includes a processor, a first and a second subscriber identity card and at least one radio transceiver module. The processor is coupled to the first subscriber identity card, the second subscriber identi...
10/07/2010
20100255847APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A method and an apparatus are provided that transmit and receive a random access preamble in a wireless communication system. A plurality of random access parameters having different values in accordance with a plurality of events for triggering random access are set. W...
10/07/2010
20100248723INTERFACE ESTABLISHING METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND RADIO NODE APPARATUS IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
An interface establishing method in a handover procedure, includes: managing an occurrence status of handover for a plurality of radio node apparatuses; transmitting an establishment instruction from the management apparatus to a first radio node apparatus to establish ...
09/30/2010
20100248724Communication System Receiver and Method for Concurrent Receiving of Multiple Channels
A method and apparatus in a communication system provide for concurrent processings of signals at the different frequencies. A received signal is down converted in a RF/IF system (490) to produce on-channel and out-of-channel received samples (305, 306). T...
09/30/2010
20100246534Method and System for Managing Handoff in a Radio Access Network
Disclosed is a method and device for managing handoff of an access terminal in a radio access network (RAN). An access terminal may detect a handoff trigger, determine whether there is an ongoing data transfer in progress, determine an amount remaining in the data trans...
09/30/2010
20100248722METHOD FOR PREVENTING COVERAGE GAPS ON THE BORDERS OF A CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
The invention relates to a method for operating a first cellular communications network, particularly for operating cells in the border region of the first cellular mobile communications network, wherein the first mobile communications network is identifiable by an iden...
09/30/2010
20100248725Handoff Method, Switching Device and Terminal
A handoff method, a switching device, and a terminal are provided. A first service link is established between a first terminal and a second terminal through a switching device. The method includes the following steps. A first switching device receives a call request fr...
09/30/2010
20100240370METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE BROKER SUPPORTING INTER-RAT, INTER-OPERATOR HANDOVERS
A method for determining an optimal access network by an apparatus is described. The method may include communicating with a first base station as part of a first access network using a first radio access technology (RAT). Information about access networks available to ...
09/23/2010
20100240371SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESELECTING CELLS IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Systems and methods include reselecting and handing over a mobile communication device from a first cell to a second cell in a cellular wireless communication system based on determining whether the signal quality level of the second cell meets or exceeds a signal quali...
09/23/2010
20100240372Method of Establishing Multiple Links with Multiple Component Carriers and Related Communication Device
A method of establishing multiple links with multiple component carriers for a mobile device of a wireless communication system, the method includes establishing a first link corresponding to a first component carrier by a first radio resource control procedure, and est...
09/23/2010
20100238900Wireless Handover Optimization
Aspects of the present invention relate to improved systems and methods for handing over a UE from a source node to a target node. In some embodiments, the target node receives UL and DL count information directly from the UE being handed over, rather than from the sour...
09/23/2010
20100240373HYBRID CELL MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing hybrid cell access points that can support closed subscriber groups (CSG) while providing at least a minimum level of service to wireless devices excluded from the CSG. Hybrid cell access points can allow...
09/23/2010
20100240369CONTROLLING THE USE OF ACCESS POINTS IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A mobile telecommunications network includes a radio access network with base stations and one or more additional access points. An access point is connected to a network core by an IP transport broadband connection. The access point is configured to appear to a mobile ...
09/23/2010
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