258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-455.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 455 Telecommunications. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:03:02 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120042365/description.html

Application Number:  20120042365

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Shoval, Asaf; Yaron, Orit; Dotan, Yedidya

Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses are provided for performing and facilitating secure communication between a client-side computing device and a remote application server through a virtual computing environment provided by an intermediate virtualization server. The virtual computing environment includes a disposable component, allowing all settings to be initialized to a secure state after each user ...
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Application Number:  20120042344

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Pan, Yang

A system for delivering advertisements based on a digital television system and a mobile communication device is disclosed. The television system and the mobile device are connected in ad hoc manner when a program is broadcasted by the television system. When a user is attracted by an item in the program, an instruction is sent from a remote control device of the television system or from the mobile device to send a data file including a product identifier to the mobile device. The user may use ...
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Application Number:  20120041925

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Chock, Raymond O.; Sheridan, Norman G.; Pope, Steven M.

A home entertainment device eliminates the need to use multiple remote's. The device is connected (by wired and/or wireless links) to electronic consumer devices (ECDs) to be controlled. A user uses a portable display device to view pages served by the device, and thereby to communicate with the device and indirectly control the ECDs. In a first aspect, a HDMI-CEC communication is used to identify a codeset from a codeset database. In a second aspect, the codeset of a remote is identified by ...
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Application Number:  20120040726

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Morishita, Katsuji

Provided is a portable terminal which is provided with a first case, a second case, and a connecting section which connects together the first case and the second case, and has less deterioration of antenna sensitivity. The portable terminal has the first case (2), the second case (3), the connecting section (4), a first circuit section (32) disposed in the first case (2), a first conductive section (31) disposed in the first case (2), a second ...
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Application Number:  20120040725

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wurtz, Michael J.

An active-noise-reduction (ANR) headset includes at least one auxiliary connection to an output of at least one device, such as a personal communications, computing, and/or entertainment device. An exemplary headset also includes a primary connection to an aircraft two-way radio or public-address system and circuitry for automatically suppressing or muting the volume of an auxiliary input signal relative to that of a primary input signal. Other exemplary features include a headset power supply, ...
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Application Number:  20120040724

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KIM, Hee Deog; KIM, Jun Sung; SHIN, Tae Hoon

A method for controlling communication setting of a mobile terminal, includes: outputting a communication setting widget indicating an operational state of at least one data communication function associated with the mobile terminal; receiving a signal for changing the operational state, the signal being associated with at least a part of the outputted communication setting widget and changing the operational state of at least one of the at least one data communication functions according to ...
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Application Number:  20120040723

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Sato, Masayuki; Kakuguchi, Kazuhiro; Kurihara, Toru

An electronic device includes a display unit, a protective member disposed on the display unit to protect the display unit, a surface member disposed on the same plane as the protective member and a waterproof sheet covering at least a gap between the protective member and the surface member, the waterproof sheet is disposed between the display unit and the protective and surface ...
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Application Number:  20120040722

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Dehmoubed, Farzin

An electronic device includes a housing, a touch-sensitive display exposed by the housing, a support tray disposed between the touch-sensitive display and a base within the housing and supporting the touch-sensitive display on a first side thereof, the support tray including at least one pivot projecting from a second side of support tray, on which the support tray is pivotable, and an actuator disposed between the base and the support tray and actuatable by pivoting the support ...
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Application Number:  20120040721

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Infanti, James Carl; Sulem, Firmansyah Kuncoko; Park, Kyung Won

An actuator assembly for use in an electronic device is provided. The actuator assembly includes a support tray formed of a conductive metal and defining an aperture extending through the support tray. A seat surrounds the aperture and supports an actuator. The actuator includes a piezoelectric element adhered to a metal substrate larger than the piezoelectric element. The metal substrate bends when the piezoelectric element contracts and expands in response to changes in the charge of the ...
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Application Number:  20120040720

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KIM, Woongchang; HWANG, Jeongseop; LEE, Byoungwook; ZHANG, Kangwon; LEE, Jongsung; KIM, Sunryang; SONG, Eungkyu

A mobile terminal including a first display unit, an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device having a second display unit, and a controller configured to receive a connection signal indicating a connection of the mobile terminal to the display device, to play a multimedia content on the first display unit, to provide video information of the multimedia content to the external display device, and to pause the playing of the multimedia content on the first display ...
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Application Number:  20120040719

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Lee, Jongsung; LEE, Byoungwook; Kim, Woongchang; Hwang, Jeonseop; Zhang, Kangwon; Yun, Chanphill; Song, Eungkyu

A mobile terminal including a sensor unit configured to sense an orientation direction of a housing of the mobile terminal, a first display unit configured to display a first screen image, an interface unit configured to be connected to an external display device having a second display unit, and a controller configured to interface with the external display device to display a monitor window including a second screen image corresponding to the first screen image on the external display device, ...
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Application Number:  20120040718

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Ramirez, Adam Christian; Ayala, Richard Anthony

The Pocket DJ is a mobile device combining the functionality of a cell phone and a DJ mixer. The invention has a top piece and bottom piece which house all of the vital components. The two pieces are attached along one edge, allowing them to flip open and closed, providing a robust yet compact design for users to take full advantage of both the cell phone and DJ mixer. A series of touch screen display panels are used to provide vital information to the user. While a set of turntables and ...
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Application Number:  20120040717

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Levy, Peter Seth; Glass, Michael George; Kaldawy, Patrick George

A system and method are provided for gathering various types of data using a mobile device and organizing such data. Images of text documents can be collected on a mobile device and conveyed to an analysis module for optical character recognition and parsing to categorize and/or classify items of the data. The parsed data items can be entered into a database based on any categories, classifications, identifiers and/or instructions corresponding to the data. Further, image data, text file data, ...
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Application Number:  20120040716

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kemery, Michael; Kuncl, Parker Ralph; Nestorovic, Nenad; McCann, Jedediah Joaquin

Telecommunication devices each having projection apparatuses capable of projecting ambiently displayed images at locations proximate to the telecommunication devices on surfaces that are substantially parallel to planes formed by the telecommunication devices are described herein. The telecommunication devices also have logic configured to provide predistorted images to the projection apparatuses, the predistorted images appearing without distortion when projected by the projection apparatuses ...
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Application Number:  20120040715

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Fu, I-Kang; Plumb, Willaim

A coexistence interference mitigation method is provided. In a wireless network, a wireless device is equipped with multiple radios in the same device platform. The wireless device also has a control entity that communicates with the multiple co-located radio modules. A first radio module receives a notification from the control entity. The notification informs a critical signaling status of a second radio module co-located with the first radio module. Upon receiving the notification, the first ...
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Application Number:  20120040714

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wu, Wei

The hand-held device integrating computer and cell phone and a method for realizing the same. The hand-held device includes: a computer mode processing module; a cell phone mode processing module; a shared storing module connected both to the computer mode processing module and cell phone mode processing module; a shared processing module connected to all of the computer mode processing module, cell phone mode processing module and shared storing module for responding to the selection of the ...
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Application Number:  20120040713

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  WANG, TING-KAI; YANG, JING-JING

The present disclosure provides an electronic device having rotary input members. The device includes a substantially cylindrical main body, at least one hollow rotary input member rotatably connected to the main body, at least one pair of pads including two pads spaced from each other, arranged on the main body and beneath the at least one rotary input member, at least one selection contact arranged on an internal surface of the at least one rotary input member, and a processing unit. When a ...
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Application Number:  20120040712

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Toms, Thomas R.; Suh, Jungwon; Kang, Seung H.; Kim, Jung Pill; Rao, Hari M.

A system and method to initiate a housekeeping operation at a mobile device is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method at a mobile device includes modifying a scheduled housekeeping operation in response to determining that the mobile device is in a charging ...
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Application Number:  20120040711

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wong, Siu Ling

A mobile communication device includes a device body, one or more capacitive sensors each having a single electrode that varies depending on a user's hand position in the vicinity of the mobile communication device, an oscillator that can generate an oscillating signal applied to each of the capacitive sensors, and a capacitance-frequency converter circuit that can convert the frequency of the oscillating signal to the capacitance of each of the capacitive sensors. The capacitance-frequency ...
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Application Number:  20120040710

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Aoyama, Tetsuya; Takatsuka, Yuya

A communication control method executed in a multi-hop cellular network including at least one gateway and a plurality of radio base stations includes: a first radio base station performing radio resource management and movement management concerning a radio mobile station requesting, when the first radio base station determines it is necessary to switch a connection destination of the radio mobile station, a second radio base station at a handover destination to perform handover processing and ...
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Application Number:  20120040709

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Song, Kuk Jin; Lee, Seung Hyun

Disclosed is an apparatus for reporting transmission power. The apparatus for reporting transmission power includes a transmission power normalization unit, a message generation unit, and a transmission unit. The transmission power normalization unit normalizes a first transmission power at a current Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level into a second transmission power at a reference MCS level, the current MCS level being an MCS level of a burst which is intended to comprise a transmission ...
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Application Number:  20120040708

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KIM, Soeng Hun; JEONG, Kyeong In; KIM, Sang Bum; VAN LIESHOUT, Gert-Jan

A method and apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a User Equipment (UE) per carrier efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes calculating PHs for multiple activated carriers based on whether data channel transmission takes place on each carrier, configuring indicators indicating whether the data channel transmission takes place on the corresponding carriers, and transmitting the PHs and indicators as aggregated in an ...
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Application Number:  20120040707

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KIM, Soeng Hun; JEONG, Kyeong In; KIM, Sang Bum; VAN LIESHOUT, Gert-Jan

A method and apparatus for configuring Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes generating a header including a LCID for identifying extended PHR and L indicating a length of the extended PHR, and inserting Power Headrooms (PHs) of multiple activated carriers into the extended PHR of one of the ...
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Application Number:  20120040706

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Shin, Chang Yong; Noh, Won Jong; Lee, Nam Yoon; Jang, Kyung Hun; Shin, Won Jae; Choi, Hyun Ho

Provided is a method of generating a transmit beamforming vector and a receive beamforming vector to substantially eliminate the effect of interference transmitted from macro terminals to a pico base station in a hierarchical cell environment. Also, provided is a method of selecting, from a plurality of macro terminals, a macro terminal for transmitting data to a macro base ...
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Application Number:  20120040705

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Shindo, Masato

Each of a plurality of wireless base stations includes: a storage unit that stores flag that indicates whether or not its own station is master base station; a determination unit that determines a wireless parameter set that is set in channels used for transmission of MBMS data; a notification unit that, when its own station is master base station, reports the wireless parameter set determined in the determination unit to other wireless base stations; an acquisition unit that, when its own ...
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Application Number:  20120040704

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Shin, Hong Sup; Kim, Young Jun; Chang, Il Doo; Kim, Sang Ha; Lee, Hee Bong; Park, Byoung-Seong

The present invention relates to a method for reducing a resource element group (REG) size, which is used at a control channel element (CCE) for a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), for the purpose of easy interleaving by a physical resource block (PRB) unit for the R-PDCCH, and a mobile telecommunication system for the same. The mobile telecommunication system of the present invention includes reducing the CCE size to 8 REGs or less of the R-PDCCH to be included in a single ...
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Application Number:  20120040703

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Otani, Yoshiyuki; Nakaoka, Ken; Suzuki, Hanae; Kawase, Kunihiro

A processing unit generates timing information on timing, with which each of radio apparatuses is to synchronize in communication between the radio apparatuses when each of the radio apparatus broadcasts a signal, to control the communication between the radio apparatuses. A modem unit and the like broadcast the thus generated timing information. An RF unit and the like receive a signal which is synchronous with the timing information broadcast by them. When a signal which is asynchronous with ...
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Application Number:  20120040702

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Wu, Keying; Song, Yang; Zhu, Xiaolong

According to an embodiment of the present invention, on a radio resource block for Multi-BS MIMO, one of the coordinating base stations selects a mobile terminal at first, and informs the other base stations of the characterization information and the pre-coding information etc. of the selected mobile terminal, and the selection made by the other base stations will obey the selection result of the base station that selects at first. By applying the method and apparatus provided by the present ...
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Application Number:  20120040701

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Xu, Ming; Hoshino, Masayuki; Imamura, Daichi; Tong, Hui

A method for reducing interferences between base stations in a communication system having a plurality of base stations. This method comprises the steps of: causing a user station to receive both a signal transmitted by a local-cell base station and a signal transmitted by an adjacent-cell base station, thereby measuring the SNR of the interfered link and the SNR of the leak link of the adjacent-cell base station; calculating a weighting factor of a leak power based on the measured SNR of the ...
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Application Number:  20120040700

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Gomes, Sylvie; Anepu, Bhaskar M.; Marinier, Paul; Pani, Diana

Methods and apparatus are provided for performing group-based machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Machine-type communication (MTC) wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may operate in M2M groups. A group of MTC WTRUs may be paged collectively as a group. An MTC WTRU may store an individual international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with the MTC WTRU, and a group-based IMSI associated with the MTC group that the MTC WTRU belongs to. The MTC WTRU may use one or both IMSIs to ...
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Application Number:  20120040699

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Bell, Kris M.; Davey, Jeffrey T.; Bleau, Darryl N.

Gateway devices maintain presence information for various mobile devices. Each gateway is associated with a zone and manages presence information only for mobile devices associated with that zone. Courier devices back-propagate presence information for the mobile devices to respective gateways based at least on the respective zone associated with each mobile device. The gateways and couriers are dynamically configured such that messages can be pushed from a provider application to a mobile ...
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Application Number:  20120040698

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Lattimer, Donald R.; Mathiowetz, Brad N.; Franchuk, Brian A.; Kantzes, Christopher P.; Toepke, Todd M.; Yang, Kun; Lund, Adam E.; Ferguson, Anthony D.

A handheld field maintenance tool is provided. The tool includes, among other things, a wireless process communication protocol module configured to communicate in accordance with a wireless process communication protocol. The tool also includes a display and an input device. A controller is coupled to the wireless process communication protocol module, the display, and the input device. The controller is configured to generate a map on the display indicating a position of the handheld field ...
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Application Number:  20120040697

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  PARK, Do Hyung; KIM, Eung Sun; KIM, Sung Cheol

Provided is an apparatus and method for expressing an accuracy of a measured location of a terminal. The apparatus may include a storage unit to store accuracy information used for indicating an accuracy of a measured location corresponding to each of possible locations of the terminal. The apparatus may include a location information obtainment unit to obtain information associated with a location of the terminal. The apparatus may include a controller to express an accuracy of a measured ...
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Application Number:  20120040696

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kazmi, Muhammad; Siomina, Iana

A method of grouping cells of a radio communications network may include defining first and second groups of cells from a plurality of cells that transmit reference signals for positioning measurements. The first and second groups of cells may be defined according to a characteristic of the reference signals transmitted by the respective cells and/or of the respective cells that transmit the reference signals. Reference signals used for positioning measurements from the cells of the first group ...
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Application Number:  20120040695

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  KANG, Hee-Won; KIM, Sang-Heon; WON, Jin-Hee; CHAE, Seong-Hyeon

A method and an apparatus for providing a location based service in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of a Base Station (BS) for a Location Based Service (LBS) in a wireless communication system includes allocating identifiers to a plurality of transmission devices in a service coverage area of the BS, generating a Reference Signal (RS) including the identifier of the corresponding transmission device and an identifier of the BS with respect to each of the transmission ...
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Application Number:  20120040694

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Zheng, Xufeng; Zhao, Zheng; Zhou, Lei

This invention provides a method, system and device for positioning a mobile terminal. The method includes: instructing, by a serving base station or an upper level relay, measuring a transmission time of a positioning signal with the mobile terminal, and instructing two relays in a serving cell to measure the transmission time of the positioning signal with the mobile terminal; and calculating, by the serving base station or the upper level relay, a position of the mobile terminal according to ...
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Application Number:  20120040693

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Wigren, Karl Torbjörn; Shi, Liang

In a method of improved clustering for providing position determination assisting data in a cellular communication system, providing (S10) a plurality of clusters of points, said points being results of high-precision reference measurements, said points of each of said cluster having the same unique radio fingerprinting tag, identifying (S20) a target cluster, said target cluster having a number of points less than a predetermined threshold. Finally, merging (S30) said ...
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Application Number:  20120040692

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Baba, Naruatsu

Improper acquisition of position information is prevented in a system in which points are added according to a movement distance of a user owning a cellular phone terminal. Position information of a cellular phone and the time information corresponding thereto are acquired on the basis of GPS or base station information. The movement distance and movement speed are calculated for each predetermined time interval, and whether or not the movement is within a range allowed for the corresponding ...
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Application Number:  20120040691

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Han, Seung Hee; Chung, Jae Hoon; Kwon, Yeong Hyeon

The present invention relates to a method for determining position of a user equipment in a wireless mobile communication system. The method comprises receiving a plurality of subframes including reference signals for positioning of the user equipment from a plurality of base stations periodically with a predetermined period of time; and determining position of the user equipment using reference signal time difference (RSTD) between the reference signals for positioning of the user equipment ...
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Application Number:  20120040690

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Wu, Bo; Teng, Zhimeng; Zhao, Ningxia

The present invention discloses a method, system and device for implementing identity identifier and location separation, to solve the technical problem that the change of the host IP address results in the connection interrupt of the terminal in the process of moving. By separating and mapping the identity identifier and location identifier, the present invention eliminates the network limitation because of the IP addresses with dual functions of the identity identifier and location ...
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Application Number:  20120040689

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Patrick, Christopher; Riley, Wyatt Thomas; Sheynblat, Leonid; Gaal, Peter

Signal acquisition assistance data is obtained for receiving devices such as wireless position assisted location devices seeking signals from any source, such as satellite vehicles and base stations. The data may be obtained from previously acquired data, based upon evaluation of changes in parameters such as time and location that may jeopardize validity. In some cases the data may be adjusted for the changes in parameters. Refined data may be calculated by a receiver using partial ...
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Application Number:  20120040688

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  KOBAYASHI, Kenichiro

A method is provided for determining a category of a location. The method comprises determining, at a first time, information identifying a first device location of a first device associated with a user; and storing the first device location information and information identifying the first time in a location history. The method further comprises determining, at a second time, information identifying a second device location of the first device; and storing, in the location history, the second ...
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Application Number:  20120040687

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kazmi, Muhammad; Siomina, Iana

The disclosure relates to a positioning node 54, a CN node 53, a RN node 52, and a UE 51 of a wireless network, and to a related method of supporting UE positioning. The method comprises transmitting UE radio access capability information (S30) and/or radio network node capability information (S10) to the positioning node 54. The transmission of UE radio access capability information is either unsolicited or triggered by a request (S20). ...
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Application Number:  20120040686

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Cho, Cheon-yong; Jeong, You-sim; Jeong, Tae-woon; Kim, In-keun

Disclosed herein are a mobile device and control method thereof, the mobile device including: a communication unit which is operable to communicate with a local content providing device from among a plurality of content providing devices in a wireless network; a display unit which is operable to display information for downloading content provided by the local content providing device; a user input unit which is operable to receive a user's command to download the content provided by the local ...
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Application Number:  20120040685

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kaikkonen, Jorma; Escolar-Piedras, Alberto

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises receiving a plurality of reference signals (RS) from a plurality of nearby cells over a positioning time window comprising a plurality of positioning occasions; grouping the received reference signals into a set of RS groups based on a time difference between a minimum expected RS time difference (RSTD) and a maximum expected RS time difference of the received signals; buffering a subset of the set of RS ...
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Application Number:  20120040684

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Gao, Lingling; Li, Jianbo

A load sharing method, device, and system are provided in the disclosure. The method includes obtaining a current load value. If the current load value exceeds a preset load threshold value, a sharing base station is selected. Information of a shared load that needs to be shared is transmitted to the selected sharing base ...
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Application Number:  20120040683

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  SHAN, Cheng; CHO, Joon Young; KIM, Youn Sun

An apparatus and method of communicating with a first plurality of nodes and a second plurality of nodes in wireless communication systems are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving node information from the first plurality of nodes, and a controller for generating joint resource information based on the node information received from the first plurality of nodes, wherein the communication unit sends the joint resource information to the second plurality of ...
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Application Number:  20120040682

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Hodroj, Samir M.; Hassan, Omar A.

Communicating data between multiple devices based on an assigned priority is described. In one aspect, data associated with a local device is received for communication between the local device and a second device. A priority is assigned to the received data based on whether the received data is live voice data. The received data then is communicated between the local device and the second device based on the priority assigned to the received ...
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Application Number:  20120040681

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Yan, Wei; Ji, Fang

An area-triggered location service method is provided, which includes: receiving, by a location service server, area-triggered location service request information; saving, by the location service server, identification information of a location service terminal and a triggered report condition carried in the area-triggered location service request information; sending, by the location service server, a subscription instruction to the location service terminal according to the identification ...
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Application Number:  20120040680

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Gao, Shumei; He, Jianqiang

The present invention discloses a method and system for softly unloading a core network element in a multi-homing networking mode, for solving the technical problem of high call loss rate caused by unloading the multi-homing core network element due to reasons like upgrading, failure, or removal. In the present invention, the to-be-unloaded multi-homing core network element is set into an office direction blockage state, and the multi-homing core network element will not be distributed with a ...
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