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  • Publication number: 20140073274
    Abstract: A method and system for pre-distorting a dual band signal to compensate for distortion of a non-linear power amplifier in a radio transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first and second signal of the dual band signal are up-sampled at a sampling rate that is based at least in part on the bandwidth of at least one of the first and second signals and based at least in part on an intermediate frequency by which the first and second signal are tuned before pre-distortion of the tuned signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Chunlong BAI
  • Publication number: 20140073356
    Abstract: Network sharing allows different core network operators to connect to a shared radio access network. The operators may share the radio network elements, and may also share the radio resources themselves. Examples of radio access sharing architectures include GWCN and MOCN. In such multi-PLMN deployment scenarios, operators are also interested in sharing measuring nodes due to their expense. To enable sharing, method(s), apparatus(es), and/or system(s) are proposed in which network nodes may perform joint selection of positioning nodes and PLMNs; in which positioning nodes of different PLMNs may communicate; in which a positioning node may obtain and use assistance data associated with a PLMN different from that of the positioning node; and to coordinate positioning measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8668714
    Abstract: A seamless, self-expanding implantable device having a low profile is disclosed along with methods of making and using the same. The implantable device includes a frame cut out of a single piece of material that is formed into a three-dimensional shape. The implantable device may comprise an embolic filter, stent, or other implantable structure. The present invention also allows complicated frame structures to be easily formed from planar sheets of starting material, such as through laser cutting, stamping, photo-etching, or other cutting techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Patent number: 8670343
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a variable Channel Quality Information (CQI) reporting period based on a User Equipment's (UE) Doppler frequency or speed. Mobile users are divided into three Doppler frequency regions based on their speed—for example, low, medium, and high Doppler users—and are assigned the CQI reporting periods accordingly by the base station. The users in the low and high Doppler regions (i.e., UEs with low and high speeds) receive a high value for the CQI reporting period, whereas—the users in the medium Doppler region (i.e., UEs with medium speeds) receive a low value for the CQI reporting period. The UE speed-specific CQI reporting period improves the uplink capacity by adaptively controlling a UE's CQI-related uplink transmissions, without compromising on the downlink capacity/throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Sairamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 8669171
    Abstract: A method is provided for eliminating catalyst residues that are present on the surface of solid structures. The solid structures are made from a first material and are obtained by catalytic growth from a substrate. The method includes the following steps: catalytically growing, from the catalyst residues, solid structures made from a second material; and selectively eliminating the solid structures made from the second material, thereby eliminating the catalyst residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atmoique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Simon Perraud, Philippe Coronel
  • Patent number: 8670344
    Abstract: A method for assisting load scheduling in a wireless communication system comprises computing of an estimate of a noise floor measure for received uplink radio signals and a neighbor cell interference power is estimated. An interference whitening of the received uplink radio signals is performed based on frequency domain equalizing or frequency domain pre-equalizing. A useful signal power after interference whitening is determined and a first user noise floor compensation factor is derived. A noise rise measure is calculated based at least on the useful signal power after interference whitening, the noise floor compensation factor, the noise floor measure and the estimated neighbor cell interference power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 8668957
    Abstract: Method of deposition on a substrate, of a metal containing dielectric film comprising a compound of the formula (I): (M11-aM2a)ObNc,??(I) wherein 0?a<1, 0<b?3, 0?c?1, M1 represents a metal selected from (Hf), (Zr) and (Ti); and M2 represents a metal atom atoms, which comprises the following steps: A step a) of providing a substrate into a reaction chamber; A step (b) of vaporizing a M1 metal containing precursor of the formula (II): (R1yOp)x(R2tCp)zM1R?4-x-z??(II) wherein 0?x?3, preferably x=0 or 1, 0?z?3, preferably z=1 or 2, 1?(x+z)?4, 0?y?7, preferably y=2 0?t?5, preferably t=1, (R1yOp) represents a pentadienyl ligand, which is either unsubstituted or substituted; (R2tCp) represents a cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligand, which is either unsubstituted or substituted, to form a first gas phase metal source; A step c) of introducing the first gas phase metal source in the reaction chamber, in order to provoke their contact with said substrate, to generate the deposition of a metal containing dielectric
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
    Inventors: Christian Dussarrat, Nicolas Blasco, Audrey Pinchart, Christophe Lachaud
  • Patent number: 8669188
    Abstract: The substrate is provided with a layer of first material, a first etching mask, a covering layer and a second etching mask. The covering layer has a covered main area and an uncovered secondary area. The secondary area of the covering layer is partially etched via the second etching mask to form a salient pattern. Lateral spacers are formed around the salient pattern defining a third etching mask. The second etching mask is eliminated. The covering layer is etched by means of the third etching mask to form a salient pattern in the covering layer and to uncover the first etching mask and the first material. The layer of first material is etched to form the pattern made from the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Sebastien Barnola, Jerome Belledent
  • Patent number: 8670333
    Abstract: A method and network node for generating and applying policy rules in an IP network. A Policy Enforcement Function (PEF) is implemented in a node such as a Gateway GPRS Service Node (GGSN) routing packet flows to and from network users. An Application Function (AF) determines source and destination addressing information for a packet flow and sends the information to a Policy and Charging Decision Function in a Policy and Charging Control Function (PCRF) having access to service and mobility policies for network users. The PCRF generates policy rules based on the addressing information and the appropriate service and mobility policies. The PCRF sends the policies rules to the PEF for application to the traffic flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: György Miklós, Zoltán Richárd Turányi
  • Patent number: 8670346
    Abstract: Apparatus for performing packet classification of data packets belonging to a packet flow through a packet data network. The apparatus comprises an ingress interface for receiving packets of said packet flow, and an active filter for disturbing one or more of said packets or for otherwise disturbing a characteristic of said flow. An egress interface is provided for sending the packets including a disturbance towards a destination. A monitor is also provided for monitoring said packet flow and/or one or more associated packet flows received by the apparatus to detect subsequent reactions in the flow/s to the disturbance, while a flow classifier is provided for attempting to classify the flow into one of a set of defined classes according to a detected reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Javier Maria Torres Ramon, Dimitrios Christodoulou, Luis Maria Lafuente Alvarez, David Manzano Macho
  • Patent number: 8669122
    Abstract: According to this method for producing a magnetic tunnel junction, a film of a dielectric material capable of acting as a tunnel barrier is deposited between two nanocrystalline or amorphous magnetic films. The dielectric material constituting the tunnel barrier consists of an at least partially crystalline perovskite, and said material is deposited by ion beam sputtering in a vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Bernard Viala, Marie-Claire Cyrille, Bernard Dieny, Kévin Garello, Olivier Redon
  • Patent number: 8670478
    Abstract: An arrangement (10) for noise rise estimation comprises a front end signal conditioning arrangement (9) and an interference whitener (14) connected thereto. The interference whitener (10) is arranged for providing interference whitening of a front end signal. A processor (20) is arranged for measuring received total wideband power received at the front end signal conditioning arrangement (9) a plurality of times. An estimate of a noise floor measure is computed by the processor (20) based on the measured received total wideband powers. The processor (20) determines an equivalent total wideband power of the output from the interference whitener (14). The processor (20) also calculates a noise rise measure, based on the equivalent total wideband power and the noise floor measure, and compensates the noise rise measure for the interference whitening. A digital receiver (12) is connected to the output from the interference whitener (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ari Kangas, Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 8671201
    Abstract: The invention relates to session control in an IMS domain of a communications network and more particularly to techniques for performing session transfer in an IMS control node (SCC AS) for controlling centralized services in an IMS domain. One embodiment of an SCC AS (200) may be adapted to store, for each of a plurality of ongoing communication sessions, a session information item (218) comprising a user identity (222) identifying a user device involved in the session and a first identifier (216) of the user device in a CS domain of the communications network, wherein the user identity is associated with multiple user devices and the first identifier comprises at least one of an MSISDN (216), an IMSI, and a GRUU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, Alf Heidermark, Fredrik Lindholm
  • Patent number: 8670497
    Abstract: A wireless communication receiver improves signal impairment correlation estimation in MIMO/MISO systems by considering different transmit power allocations and different transmit antenna power distributions in its impairment correlation calculations. The receiver may be implemented in according to a variety of architectures, including, but not limited to, Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) Generalized RAKE (G-RAKE), Joint Detection (JD) G-RAKE, and Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) G-RAKE. Regardless of the particular receiver architecture adopted, the improved impairment correlations may be used to calculate improved (RAKE) signal combining weights and/or improve channel quality estimates for reporting by receivers operating in Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) systems transmitting HSDPA channels via MIMO or MISO transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Stephen J. Grant, Leonid Krasny, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Karl Molnar, Jung-Fu Cheng
  • Patent number: 8670601
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tomosynthesis method by illuminating an object by means of an X-ray source (1) with a linear trajectory (2), the method comprising breaking down a volume of the object into N fanned out planes (P) formed between the linear trajectory (2) and a detecting plane (4) parallel to the linear trajectory, each fanned out plane of said N planes includes the linear trajectory; and performing anisotropic regularization on at least one fanned out plane (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Régis Guillemaud, Pierre Bleuet, Isabelle Magnin
  • Patent number: 8667630
    Abstract: A furniture cushion comprises a matrix of interconnected pocketed springs, each spring of which is contained within a pocket of fabric. Foam at least partially surrounds the matrix. A fiber pad is wrapped bull-nose around the matrix so the pad overlies an upper surface of the matrix of pocketed springs, the fiber pad having a first layer in contact with the upper surface of the matrix of pocketed springs and a second layer in contact with the first layer, the first layer having a first density and said second layer having a second density, the first density being greater than the second density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Larry I. Bullard
  • Patent number: 8667845
    Abstract: A device for detecting elements in a fluid environment includes at least one acoustic resonator having a surface designed for fixing of elements. The resonator is configured for generating and measuring Lamb waves fostering generation of symmetrical Lamb waves. The device analyzes the resonance frequency of the resonator to determine the variation of the resonance frequency of the symmetrical Lamb waves representative of the presence of the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Emmanuel Defay, Marc Aid, Pierre-Patrick Lassagne, Nicolas Sarrut-Rio
  • Patent number: 8670384
    Abstract: For wireless networks that transmit synchronization signals allowing user equipment to synchronize to cells within the network and transmit reference signals allowing user equipment to determine cell identities, a method and apparatus taught herein advantageously link the synchronization signal sequences to the reference signal sequences according to a defined mapping. The linking simplifies the cell search process by allowing user equipment to determine cell identities based on mapping detected synchronization signal sequences to the corresponding reference signal or to the corresponding subset of reference signals in embodiments where there are more reference signal sequences than synchronization signal sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Robert Baldemair, Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall
  • Patent number: 8671178
    Abstract: An information processing system for offering a remote access from a device to a virtual service provided in a local network is provided. The virtual service invokes native services provisioned by a service provider. The system comprising: a management unit managing service information specifying a shortcut component of the service; an obtaining unit obtaining a request for the virtual service from the device; a receiving unit receiving the service information from the management unit; a specification unit specifying a shortcut component for the requested virtual service based on the received service information; an invoking unit executing the specified shortcut component by invoking native services to the service provider, and transferring the other component of the requested virtual service to the local network; a combination unit combining results; and a response unit responding the combined result to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Gerdes, Takeshi Matsumura, Toshikane Oda, Kenta Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 8670401
    Abstract: In a method and a device for determining or predicting the uplink load based on measurements, including CIR and adjustable parameters, the parameters are adjusted based on measurements of received power. Hereby an improved determination of the uplink load can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhang Zhang, Xinyu Gu, Claes Tidestav