Abstract: The quick connection allows fastening a tool to the lifter arm of an operating machine and includes first and second joining means associated respectively to said lifter arm and said tool aimed at being reciprocally engaged. The first joining means includes a swivel head that swivels between a raised position and a lowered one and a first gudgeon; the second joining means include a shaped body that defines a calibrated inlet opening and support means. The swivel head, in raised position, enters the shaped body through the opening, then it rotates to its lowered position, thus bringing the first gudgeon in engagement with said support means. The shaped body includes a stop aimed at striking a winglet of the swivel head and at preventing the latter from going out in any succession of movements which are not inversely equal to those carried out for the introduction.

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a network node for enabling handover of a communications service from a circuit switched, referred to as CS, network to a packet switched, referred to as PS, network, wherein a user equipment is located in the CS network and having the communications service in the CS network.

Abstract: Refinements made to distributor units which serve to continuously transfer and position tablets or pills in organized alveoli in an advancing strip, the advancing strip presenting its alveoli on each occasion in correspondence with holes normally organized positioned radially in a distributor disk. The distributor disk has zero setting means, and is associated with means which supply the rotation motion by means of intermediate means. The intermediate connection means arc connected stably to the distributor disk and detachably to the means which supply the motion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for controlling re-transmission in a user equipment supporting uplink spatial multiplexing. The method comprises the steps of detecting an uplink grant on a physical downlink control channel (102), the uplink grant being valid for at least one transport block; detecting that at least one transport block is disabled (103), such that no grant is associated with the at least one transport block; and interpreting (106) the at least one disabled transport block as an acknowledgement, ACK, of previous transmission corresponding to said disabled transport block irrespective of which indication is received on the reception status feedback channel for said previous transmission.

Abstract: A method of storing data in a database, the database defining a table and the data comprising at least one record. Each record comprises values for at least one field. The method comprises storing a plurality of schemas, each schema defining a respective set of fields associated with said table, wherein each of said records is associated with identification data identifying one of said schemas.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method in a user equipment (100), configured for operation using a non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration within a first frequency band. Said non-contiguous downlink carrier configuration comprises at least two blocks wherein each block comprises one downlink carrier or several adjacent downlink carriers within the first frequency band and there is a gap between any two blocks among said at least two blocks. The method comprises receiving (502) a control signal indicating that compressed mode should be configured for a first block among said at least two blocks and that compressed mode should not be configured for a second block among said at least two blocks, and configuring (504) downlink compressed mode operation in the user equipment for the first block but not the second block in accordance with said received control signal. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method in a radio network controller communicating with the user equipment.

Abstract: Adaptive gain regulation is performed by measuring one or more real-time closed-loop statistics for a signal output from a gain-controllable circuit and blindly adjusting the gain of the gain-controllable circuit based on the one or more real-time closed-loop statistics measured for the signal so that the signal output by the gain-controllable circuit satisfies a predetermined criteria without using a priori information about the signal.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for mitigating interference to radio base stations. A first base station provides a served cell that at least partially overlaps a served cell of a second base station. The first and second base stations are part of a telecommunications system. The method includes identifying at least one carrier that is preferable for the second base station to utilize for communications with at least one UE to avoid interference. The method further includes communicating an instruction message from the first base station to the second base station that instructs the second base station to use the at least one carrier for communications.

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to method in a mobile management entity, referred to as MME, for enabling handover of a communication service between a circuit switched (CS) network and a packet switched (PS) network. The user equipment is located in the CS network and having a communications service in the CS network. Handling is improved by providing communication between the MME and a mobile switching centre server.

Abstract: A method for coordinating the execution of a composed service in a service execution coordination unit on request by a service composition server is disclosed, wherein the service is composed of at least a first and a second component service instance. The method comprises: receiving an instruction for invoking the first component service instance from the service composition server, receiving an instruction for invoking the second component service instance from the service composition server, contacting a respective one of the one or more application servers for invoking the first component service instance, and in response to receiving a service invocation result from invoking the first service automatically contacting the respective one of the of the one or more application servers for invoking the second of the one or more component service instances.

Abstract: Methods and corresponding Machine-to-Machine Application Server (M2M-AS) and XML Data Management Server (XDMS) are provided for managing groups of M2M applications running on various devices. As groups of M2M applications are formed in a network, the group information comprising identities of the groups and identities of M2M applications belonging to each group is relayed to the M2M-AS. The later further sends such information to the XDMS server for storage. Requests for group membership related to M2M applications can then be handled. When a request for group membership related to an application is received at an M2M gateway or at the M2M-AS, the request is further sent to the XMDS server, which replies back to the requestor with identities of the group(s) that comprise the given M2M application, thus enabling, for example, the requestor to communicate not only with the application, but with entire groups comprising the application.

Abstract: It is described a concept for a service selection of at least two services of a composite service wherein a composite service description (100) of the composite service includes at least two service templates (102a, 102b, 102c), each of which defines at least one constraint for a service wherein the service is to be executed in place of the service template to thereby constitute part of the composite service. From service database there is selected for each service template a corresponding candidate set comprising at least one service matching the at least one constraint of the service template. Subsequently or at least partially simultaneously for each of the at least two service templates (102a, 102b, 102c), from the corresponding candidate set one service is selected so as to provide, based on a predetermined cost metric, for a reduced composition cost. The predetermined cost metric may include a latency metric, an energy efficiency metric, a co-location metric or a traffic metric, etc.

Abstract: A node (115, 210) for a mobile network (100), arranged to forward control plane signaling to and from an end user (140, 216) in the system (100) to other nodes in the system (100) and also being arranged to keep track of a state of the end user (140, 216). The node (115, 210) is arranged to use a so called VRRP protocol, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol to monitor the function of a second node (120, 212) in the system, a so called “peer node” to the node (115, 210) itself and to have its own function be monitored by a VRRP of the peer node (120, 212). The node (115, 210) is also arranged to use a second protocol for transferring information on a state of the end user (140, 216) to the peer node. A node (120, 212) for receiving such information is also disclosed.

Abstract: A magnesium-based composite member is provided with a through hole through which a fastening member for attachment to a fixing target is to be inserted. A substrate is provided with a substrate hole through which the fastening member is to be inserted, and made of a composite material which is a composite of SiC and a matrix metal which is any of magnesium and a magnesium alloy. A receiving portion is attached to the substrate and made of a metal material different from the matrix metal. The receiving portion is provided with a receiving portion hole through which the fastening member is to be inserted, and at least a part of an inner circumferential surface of the through hole is formed from an inner circumferential surface of the receiving portion hole.

Abstract: Data packets of a flow associated with a first bearer and data packets of a flow associated with a second bearer are received in an intermediate node (140). The data packets are then transmitted from the intermediate node (140). in response to a congestion being detected on the first bearer, one of the first bearer and the second bearer is selected for notification of the congestion in the associated flow. The selection may be based on a type of the congestion, e.g. the detected congestion being in a transport network (160) or the congestion being on a radio link (250).

Abstract: A method implemented by a network element monitor OpenFlow data flows and enable operations, administration and management (OAM) functionality in OpenFlow. The method inserts OpenFlow OAM packets into an OpenFlow data flow to monitor the OpenFlow data flow, wherein inserted OpenFlow OAM packets have fate sharing with data packets in the OpenFlow data flow. The method comprises the steps of receiving by the network element the OpenFlow OAM packets from a source through a port of the network element, matching by an OpenFlow switch module using a matching structure of OpenFlow data packets received by the network element to identify the OpenFlow OAM packets, and forwarding the identified OpenFlow OAM packets to a flow table or group table of the OpenFlow switch module to aggregate the OpenFlow OAM packets with a corresponding OpenFlow data flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a network location management entity for managing location information indicating a location of a mobile terminal in a communication network. The network location management entity comprises a provider (101) for providing pre-stored information on a network communication node which handled communications of the mobile terminal, and a transmitter (103) for transmitting a subscriber location request towards the network communication node if the pre-stored information fulfills a validity criterion, the subscriber location request requesting a transmission of the location information.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for reducing an air interface load in a communication network. A base station is provided with a receiver adapted to receive signals from a terminal via a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) and a second control channel. A measuring unit measures a signal to interference ratio (SIR) of the DPCCH. An effective SIR determining unit determines an effective SIR on the basis of the measured SIR of the DPCCH and an estimate of the SIR of the second control channel. A comparison unit compares the effective SIR with a target SIR, and a power determination unit determines a power control command for controlling power usage for the DPCCH on the basis of the comparison. A transmitter sends a message to the terminal, the message including the power control command. The invention allows the DPCCH power (or DPCCH SIR) operating point to be maintained at a low level.

Abstract: A base station transmits signals on a frequency (f1) in an active transmission interval (TI) having a starting time and being part of a transmission cycle (TC) including other active transmission intervals for other frequencies (f0, f1, f2, f3) appearing in a predetermined discontinuous transmission scheme that specifies the relationship (?1, Az, A3) between the starting times of the active transmission intervals of the frequencies of the set. The mobile station scans the set of frequencies during a scanning cycle (SC) corresponding to the transmission cycle (TC) and determines the frequencies at which the base stations transmit. The start of each scanning is made at a point in time that is specified for the corresponding frequency by the discontinuous transmission scheme and the scanning of one frequency involves ending scanning of this frequency at the end of a time range (TR) of pre-determined length if no signal is detected within this time range.