Abstract: In a method of sharing physical resources associated with a server system between the server system and a client system, a respective associated address designating a given location in a program memory and identifying the start of one of a plurality of tasks which access the physical resources is associated with the value assumed by a first parameter contained in a first field of the access request message. Respective values assumed by or associated with second parameters contained in a second field of the access request message with predetermined first locations are written in a data memory. The associated address is loaded into an execution register of the processor circuit in order to initiate the task. The steps of this method are implemented by an interface device and a program required for operation of the interface device is dissociated from each task of the plurality of tasks.

Abstract: A transmission frame comprises a synchronization flag and data bits. It is formed of at least a first subframe in which occur the synchronization flag and an identification field which specifies the number of subframes. Each of the other subframes comprises blocking bits disposed so that the synchronization flag cannot occur in the subframes unless in conjunction with the first subframe.

Abstract: In a combined time-division multiple access and frequency-division multiple access multilayer cellular mobile radio network comprising macrocells and microcells, each macrocell being associated with at least one control frequency and at least one traffic frequency and each microcell being associated with at least one control frequency, a method of optimizing frequency use when adding any microcell base station defining a given microcell that is part of a coverage area of a given macrocell includes the step of allocating to said microcell a control frequency identical to a traffic frequency used in a macrocell immediately adjacent said given macrocell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control signal for receivers, said control signal being formed by juxtaposing two signal elements of equal duration, and time symmetrical. For example, the signal comprises at least one first pseudo-random noise digital sequence s(N.sub.s -1) to s(0) and, periodically, at least one second digital sequence s(N.sub.s -1) to s(0), corresponding to the inverse, obtained by time symmetry, of said first sequence. The signal may be used in particular for performing time and frequency synchronization on receivers and/or for equalizing signals received by said receivers. The invention also relates to methods and apparatuses that use said signal.

Abstract: For recognizing information conveyed by a received signal, represented by convention by possible elementary forms of the signal to be transmitted, a device includes a correlator for establishing a correlation between the received signal and various possible forms of signal, in accordance with the convention. A neural network using correlation coefficients obtained from the correlator is trained by application to its input of correlation coefficients corresponding to a received signal conveying given information whilst imposing the given information at its output. The network supplies recognized information.

Abstract: A transmission frame comprises a locking row, synchronization bits and data bits, the synchronization bit being placed immediately after the locking row. The frame terminates with a synchronization bit. A transmitter and a receiver are linked by a transmission channel carrying these frames.

Abstract: In a mobile radio system including mobile terminals each terminal comprises, on the receiving side, a unit using the Viterbi algorithm for equalization or for decoding the received signals after demodulation. A decision device of this system calculates the mean and the standard deviation of the metrics of each branch of the Viterbi algorithm, determines a quality level of a transmission parameter corresponding to the results of this calculation and compares the estimated quality level and a required quality level of the parameter in order to produce a decision signal supplied to a decision unit which can modify one or more transmission characteristics.

Abstract: A receive processor device, in particular for a digital mobile radio system, includes a processor system comprising a set of functional units connected in cascade, some of which are decision units adapted to make decisions as to the value of information symbols that they receive. The decision unit is bypassed in the processor system and the value of information symbols to be processed by the next unit is deleted if the transmission quality of information symbols received by a decision unit is poor. Probable values for the deleted information symbols are determined from deleted information symbols and from undeleted information symbols received by the next unit.

Abstract: A procedure for automatically replacing a user identification module of a terminal in a communication network includes storing in a memory of the terminal a message indicating the detection of a problem with writing and/or reading the user identification module. A warning message is sent from the terminal to a control station of the terminal during the first exchange of information following detection of the problem. A database listing defective identification modules is updated at the control station. A procedure for sending a new identification module to the user of the terminal is initialized.

Abstract: A device for selecting a primary satellite for a terminal (T) in a radiocommunication system having a number of moving satellites comprises measurement means for determining location information (D) on the basis of the position of the terminal with respect to each of the neighboring satellites (S1, S2, S3) on which it has becomed synchronized, estimation means for estimating the period of visibility of each of the satellites on the basis of the location information, and selection means for selecting the satellite (S2) having the longest estimated visibility.

Abstract: A method of adjusting an electronic function implemented in an article that forms a part of a population of articles to be adjusted, the electronic function presenting dispersion from one article to another. When necessary, the method comprises replacing an initial parameter stored in a dispersion correction stage that is coupled to the electronic function with a correction parameter so that the combined response of said function plus the associated correction stage to a predetermined input stimulus lies in a predetermined range. The initial parameter is a centered parameter corresponding to the mean value of the capability curve of correction parameters for the function, the mean value itself being updated whenever the percentage of the population of articles for which test measurements lie outside the predetermined range becomes greater than a predetermined percentage. A large proportion of the measurements performed thus lie within the predetermined range so there is then no need to adjust the function.

Abstract: A method of handover between two cells of a TDMA cellular mobile radio network, wherein, after a mobile receives a handover command (HANDOVER CMD) from its base station, the mobile transmits a message (SABM) containing connection set-up information or wanted data to a new base station according to a timing advance. The handover command tells the mobile not to transmit access bursts to the new base station, thus avoiding speech interruption. The timing advance is determined by the mobile or communicated to the mobile in the handover command.

Abstract: In a cellular mobile radio system including a plurality of cells grouped into identical patterns, each of at least two cells, repeated periodically in space and such that: each cell is associated with one or more base transceiver stations to send radio signals to or to receive radio signals from mobile stations. Each transceiver station sends and receives radio signals using a set of frequencies associated with its cell and including at least two different frequencies, all the frequencies of sets of frequencies associated with cells of the same pattern being different. The frequency of the signals exchanged between a mobile station and a base transceiver station of a cell changes in time with the result that several frequencies of the set of frequencies associated with the cell are used successively during the transmission. In this system, the plan of the mobile radio system is obtained by superposing the plans of a plurality of mobile radio systems each having a different number of cells per pattern.

Abstract: A sectorized cell of a mobile radio network forms a first set which comprises a nucleus and a plurality of sectors disposed around the nucleus, the coverage of the cell being provided by transceiver units forming a second set, the first and second sets being associated on a one-to-one basis. Each sector comprising a core, at least one separation section being provided between the cores of two adjacent sectors, and the control station comprises an allocation unit capable of allocating the same resource to the cores of two adjacent sectors.

Abstract: A transmission frame comprises a synchronization flag, synchronization bits and data bits. A control bit is substituted for one of the synchronization bits if any sequence of bits the same length as the synchronization flag including the synchronization bits differs from the synchronization flag by at least one bit in addition to the synchronization bit.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an antenna for portable radio devices including a helical antenna coupled at the base to a transmitter/receiver. The pitch of a conductive material helix constituting the helical antenna varies according to the height of the helix. It decreases from the base of the helical antenna towards its top.

Abstract: A method of synchronizing a mobile terminal in a mobile radio network in which synchronization of the mobile terminal takes place only after determination of the best cell by means of a measurement campaign requests synchronization of the mobile terminal in order to communicate with a control station, verifies that a measurement campaign has already been effected and that the time elapsed since that measurement campaign was effected is less than a predetermined validity time interval, and synchronizes the mobile terminal to the control station.

Abstract: A self-disabling device for a portable terminal used in a mobile telephone network includes a register holding an identification number of the portable terminal and a buffer memory for temporarily storing short information messages transmitted by a control station of the network. One message contains a list of identifier numbers of terminals used fraudulently. A comparator compares the identifier number of the terminal with each of the identifier numbers in the list and transmission of calls by the portable terminal is disabled in response to a positive comparison by the comparator.

Abstract: A transmitter transmits blocks to a receiver by means of frames formed of a locking row and data rows. It receives an acknowledgement from the receiver sent by the latter on recognizing a locking row. A block comprises control bits, data bits and adaptation bits. During a first phase preceding reception of the acknowledgement the transmitter transmits blocks in which the adaptation bits have been eliminated by means of short frames comprising an initial number of data rows. During a second phase following on from reception of the acknowledgement it transmits blocks incorporating the adaptation bits by means of complete frames comprising a final number of data rows which is greater than said initial number. The receiver includes an analyzer for determining if the blocks are conveyed by a short frame or by a complete frame in order to identify the nature of the blocks.

Abstract: A transmission system for digital mobile radio installation mobile terminals includes an attenuator on the input side of the mixer in order to apply to the latter signals at an rms level of only approximately 70 millivolts. The preamplifier is therefore a very high gain amplifier (typically 30 dB) and is followed by a level limiter circuit.