Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of blocks, and a controller configured to register a block designated in a protection command as a protected block in a storage region. When the control circuit receives from a host a command to erase the protected block or write to the protected block, the control circuit does not issue a corresponding erase or write command to the semiconductor memory device and notifies the host of the failure to execute the command.

Abstract: A radio communication system that includes a user equipment; a base station; a first management apparatus that manages the user equipment according to a first RAT; and a second management apparatus that manages the user equipment according to a second RAT is disclosed. The base station includes a controller that controls radio communication with the user equipment and a transmitter that transmits first location registration information of the first management apparatus and second location registration information of the second management apparatus. The user equipment includes a receiver that receives the first location registration information and the second location registration information from the base station, a manager that retains location registration information, and a processor that determines the location registration in the first or second management apparatus is necessary and that performs the location registration in accordance with the determination.

Abstract: A memory device includes a semiconductor memory unit and a controller circuit configured to communicate with a host through a serial interface and access the semiconductor memory unit in response to commands received through the serial interface. The controller circuit, in response to a host command to read parameters of the memory device, updates at least one of parameters of the memory device stored in the memory device based on operational settings of the memory device, and transmits the updated parameters through the serial interface to the host.

Abstract: An object is to provide a mobile station, a mobile communication system, and a network device that can realize more appropriate call origination control per service as intended by an operator. An MMTEL function unit (120) of a UE (100), based on ssac-BarringForMMTEL-Voice, upon determining that call origination of a VoLTE call is possible, transmits Bearer Request to an NAS function unit (170). The NAS function unit (170), in accordance with the Bearer Request, transmits Service Request to an RRC function unit (190). The RRC function unit (190), in accordance with the Service Request, based on ac-BarringForMO-Data or Tbarring, transmits RRC Connection Request to a mobile communication network (200) without determining a possibility of call origination of the VoLTE call.

Abstract: A switch is provided. The switch is connected to a control apparatus for controlling Lawful Interception, and relays packets transmitted and received between a user apparatus and an IMS apparatus in the home network of the user apparatus. The switch includes a determination unit configured to determine whether the user apparatus is a Lawful Interception target or whether the user apparatus is a roaming user; and a transmission unit configured to, in the case where the user apparatus is a Lawful Interception target or in the case where the user apparatus is a roaming user, transmit to a mobile management switch information indicating to the user apparatus that the user apparatus should transmit and receive the packets to and from the IMS apparatus without encryption.

Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of blocks, and a controller configured to register a block designated in a protection command as a protected block in a storage region. When the control circuit receives from a host a command to erase the protected block or write to the protected block, the control circuit does not issue a corresponding erase or write command to the semiconductor memory device and notifies the host of the failure to execute the command.

Abstract: A user device communicating with a base station includes a determiner that determines whether the user device is set at low access priority and whether data to be transmitted to the base station is high-priority data, and a transmitter that transmits an RRC message to the base station. When the user device is set at low access priority and the data to be transmitted to the base station is the high-priority data, the determiner reports, to the transmitter, information indicating transmission of the high-priority data, and the transmitter sets the information indicating the transmission of the high-priority data in the RRC message, and transmits the RRC message to the base station.

Abstract: A user apparatus according to an embodiment is provided. The user apparatus communicates with a base station, and includes a determination unit configured to, in the case of making a VoLTE call, determine whether a predetermined indicator is included in broadcast information received from the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the base station an RRC connection request message in which information is included indicating a request for an RRC connection to be established for making a VoLTE call.

Abstract: A rubber composition for tires according to the present technology comprises: a natural rubber, a diene-based blended rubber containing a solution-polymerized SBR and an emulsion-polymerized SBR, an aromatic modified terpene resin, a silica, and a carbon black. The solution-polymerized SBR contains a specific solution-polymerized SBR having a block containing an isoprene unit at one terminal thereof and a modified terminal for silica at the other terminal thereof. The styrene unit content in the emulsion-polymerized SBR is from 35 to 50 mass %. The content of the natural rubber and the total content of the solution-polymerized SBR and the emulsion-polymerized SBR in the diene-based blended rubber are specified, and the contents of aromatic modified terpene resin, the silica, and the carbon black relative to the content of the diene-based blended rubber are specified.

Abstract: A SIP control apparatus is provided. The SIP control apparatus is connected to a management apparatus controlling call processing rules in an IP packet network, and controls an emergency call made by a user apparatus. The SIP control apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to, in the case where an emergency call connection request received from the user apparatus is anonymous, obtain an international mobile subscriber identifier, IMSI, of the user apparatus from the management apparatus; and a selection unit configured to, in the case where the obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining the IMSI of the user apparatus from the management apparatus, select to continue processing the emergency call connection request, and, in the case where the obtaining unit fails to obtain the IMSI of the user apparatus from the management apparatus, select whether to continue or to reject processing the emergency call connection request.

Abstract: A mobile station for receiving broadcast information for restriction control from a base station in a network environment shared by a plurality of operators includes a reception unit configured to receive from the base station the broadcast information including restriction control skip information indicating a type of a call which is not subject to restriction control; and a restriction control determination unit configured to identify restriction control skip information corresponding to an operator with which the mobile station registers from the received broadcast information and determine whether to apply the restriction control.

Abstract: A tire surface coating agent which is coated on the surface of an unvulcanized tire or a vulcanized pneumatic tire includes 2 to 100 wt. % of a specific polyalkylene glycol carboxylic acid alkyl ester.

Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device, a controller configured to access the semiconductor module, a plurality of pins for connection to the outside of the memory system, the pins configured to receive and output serial data, and a test circuit. When one of the pins receives serial test data, the test circuit converts the serial test data into parallel test data, and outputs the parallel test data to the semiconductor memory device for writing therein, and when the test circuit receives parallel test data written in the semiconductor memory device, the test circuit converts the parallel test data to serial test data, and outputs the serial test data through one of the pins for test of the memory system.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to user equipment supporting an IMS function, comprising: an application layer configured to provide a user interface for a user to set ON or OFF the IMS function; a SIP layer configured to enable or disable transmission of a SIP signal to a resident network corresponding to user's setting ON or OFF the IMS function in the user interface; and a modem layer configured to change an IMS related Capability of the user equipment related to the IMS function corresponding to user's setting ON or OFF the IMS function in the user interface and communicate with the resident network based on the changed Capability.

Abstract: A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication network that supports a plurality of radio access technologies, including: a reception unit configured, when an origination request transmitted to the mobile communication network from the user apparatus that uses a first radio access technology is rejected, to receive an origination rejection signal including a timer value and an operation instruction from the mobile communication network; and an operation control unit configured to perform inhibition of re-origination based on the timer value included in the origination rejection signal that is received by the reception unit, wherein, in a case where the user apparatus changes a using radio access technology from the first radio access technology to a second radio access technology, the operation control unit determines whether to inhibit re-origination based on the operation instruction included in the origination rejection signal.

Abstract: A user device that communicates with a network apparatus and in which at least one application is installed. The user device includes a receiver that receives, from the network apparatus, restriction information including a destination identifier for identifying an external network connected to the network apparatus and a barring rate associated with the destination identifier, and a controller that when communication is to be started by the application, controls whether to allow or prevent the communication by the application based on the restriction information.

Abstract: A memory device includes a semiconductor memory unit, a controller configured to communicate with a host through a serial interface and read data stored in a page of the semiconductor memory unit in response to a read command received through the serial interface, and an error-correcting code (ECC) circuit configured to carry out error correction with respect to data read from each unit region of the page. The controller is further configured to transmit, through the serial interface to the host, information that indicates whether or not a number of error bits detected by the ECC circuit in the data read from each unit region of the page through the error correction is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A memory system includes a controller that recognizes, as a command, a signal received immediately after a chip select signal is received from a host device, and a memory that includes a plurality of blocks. When the command is a first command, the controller outputs to the host device, information indicating whether at least one of a write operation and an erase operation with respect to at least one particular block is prohibited.

Abstract: A rotating disk-type preform alignment apparatus 1 including a disk 10, which is rotationally driven about a rotation axis tilted from a vertical direction, and a partition wall 28 erected outwardly of the disk, the apparatus being adapted to align preforms 100, which have been supplied onto the disk, at the peripheral edge of the disk and discharge the aligned preforms from a discharge section, the apparatus comprising: pockets 30 arranged side by side in a circumferential direction at the peripheral edge of the disk, each pocket having an opening portion into which the preform is dropped, and each pocket having a holding portion provided on the inner peripheral surface of the opening portion for holding the preform in an upright state; and a gas jetting unit 40, provided outwardly of the disk between a region where the preforms are supplied onto the disk and the discharge section, for jetting a gas from outside the pocket and from below the pocket, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the opening portion

Abstract: A memory system includes first through fifth pins connectable to a host device to output to the host device a first signal through the third pin and to receive from the host device a first chip select signal through the first pin, a second chip select signal through the second pin, a second signal through the fourth pin, and a clock signal through the fifth pin, an interface circuit configured to recognize, as a command, the second signal received through the fourth pin immediately after detecting the first or second chip select signal, and first and second memory cell arrays. The interface circuit and the first and second memory cell arrays are provided in one common package, and is configured to access the first memory cell array when detecting the first chip select signal, and to access the second memory cell array when detecting the second chip select signal.