Patents Issued in August 28, 2014
  • Publication number: 20140242898
    Abstract: A centralized fresh air cooling system that operates with outside air that vents inside house air into the attic of a house or building. A damper redirects air from the output of the central air circulator to the attic area to blow the hot attic air out of an attic. A typical central air circulator can replace the air within a house or building five to ten times an hour. They system can be retrofit to most central air systems by replacing the thermostats and installing the damper between the air circulator and the house or building ducting. Outside cooler air is drawn in windows or other openings in house or building, into the air circulator returns and then into the attic. The system uses multiple sensors and control mechanism to ensure optimal energy savings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Mike RICHARDS
  • Publication number: 20140242899
    Abstract: A system and method for modulating the speed of a fan over a period of time to maintain the space temperature of a room. The system and method involves the use of a CRAC unit or a fan coil unit. In an embodiment, the system is comprised of said CRAC or fan coil unit, a variable frequency drive, fan motor, fan, room temperature sensor, and supply air temperature sensor. Based on the collected room and supply air temperature values, a novel control sequence determines how to best modulate the speed of the fan motor over a period of time. Using this system and control method, the space temperature can be controlled at the desired temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Mingsheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20140242900
    Abstract: The present invention is a total heat exchange element in which a spacing member is provided on both sides of a sheet-like partition member to form a flow path and which performs heat exchange between an airflow that flows in a flow path formed on one side of the partition member and an airflow that flows in a flow path formed on another side of the partition member via the partition member, wherein the spacing member is molded integrally with the partition member by using a resin, and the partition member is configured to include a functional layer that has heat conductivity, moisture permeability, and gas shielding property and a heat shrink layer that shrinks at a predetermined temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Takada, Shinya Tokizaki, Hajime Sotokawa, Yuichi Ishimaru, Takanori Imai, Hidemoto Arai
  • Publication number: 20140242901
    Abstract: The present invention provides an airflow outlet of air-conditioning device, which comprises a main body having one end forming an entrance opening and an opposite end forming a plurality of outward-projecting curved ridges. At least one of the curved ridges has a side wall forming at least one through hole to allow air to pass through the through hole. The present invention allows airflows generated by an air-conditioning device to be conducted to the through hole to be discharged therefrom. Since the through hole is formed in a side wall, airflows do not blow directly down as that occurring in the conventional devices and instead blowing sideways so as to eliminate any potential risk of causing discomfort of persons located under the airflow outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: TREASURE UNICORN LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Ching Lee, Tzu-I Lee, Yu-Jieh Lee, Yu-Hsuan Lee, Peng-Chieh Lee, Po-Chang Lee
  • Publication number: 20140242902
    Abstract: An exhaust air shutter assembly may include a housing having a dividing wall separating the exhaust air shutter assembly into an inside portion and an outside portion. An opening may be formed in the dividing wall and a frame may be mounted around the perimeter of the hole. Disposed on the frame may be a gasket that extends around the entire perimeter of the hole. The exhaust air shutter also may include at least one shutter flap mounted adjacent to the frame with a hinge such that the shutter flap can pivot between a closed position and an open position. When the shutter flap is in the open position, an air flow path exists from the inside portion of the exhaust air shutter assembly to the outside portion. When the shutter flap is in the closed position the air flow path is blocked. The shutter flap is configured to contact the gasket mounted to the frame when the shutter flap is in the closed position, thereby creating a seal between the shutter flap and the opening in the dividing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: PETRA ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES CO.
    Inventor: PETRA ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES CO.
  • Publication number: 20140242903
    Abstract: A dual band printed antenna pair operates simultaneously at both WLAN frequency bands (2.4 GHz/5 GHz). The antenna pair provides high isolation between both antennas while having an efficient over the air performance. The antenna pair achieve greater than 20 dB isolation at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band, while having antennas positioned in close proximity. The high isolation is accomplished using an orthogonal antenna configuration (exploiting orthogonal polarization) and a parasitic element to further enhance isolation at 2.4 GHz. The antenna pair and parasitic element are printed on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) adding relatively little cost to the Radio Frequency (RF) interface. The PCB is then fixed on top of a metal chassis with the antenna keep out area overhanging a corner of the metal chassis to enhance performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Javier R. DeLuis, Alireza Mahanfar, Benjamin Shewan, Mark Casebolt, Jeff Reents
  • Publication number: 20140242904
    Abstract: Motor vehicles as well as infrastructure stations, which are stationary and which are installed on the side of the road such as traffic light systems for example, are provided as participants in a Car-to-X network. The vehicles include an automobile radio together with the communication unit for communicating with other participants of the network. In the event that such a vehicle travels through a region, for example a tunnel or a forest, in which a direct antenna reception of the radio signal of the radio station set in the automobile radio is poor or impossible and thus the reception quality of said radio signal is poor, the driver can be irritated or angered due to static or other disruptive noises as well as a loss of sound. Reception of radio signals in a Car-to-X communication system is improved by forwarding radio signals from one user to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Mohinder Pandey, Wilhelm Bairlein, Claudia Kratzsch
  • Publication number: 20140242905
    Abstract: A mobile computing device hosts an operating system and mobile applications. A provisioning application communicates with a secure element and near field communication (NFC) subsystem. It causes display of an interface for users to enter personal attributes for storage in the secure element. Users discriminately select items from their personal attributes for transmission to a third party recipient so only attributes relative to the third party are sent. Software, interfaces, methods, and apparatus typify the embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Forrest Steely, Samuel Leo Rhodus
  • Publication number: 20140242906
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radio communication apparatus includes a radio communicator, a storage, and a controller. The radio communicator is configured to perform close proximity wireless communication or near field wireless communication with other radio communication apparatus. The storage is configured to store data, setting parameters associated with the data, and an application. The controller is configured to execute the application and control a transmission and reception of the data performed by the radio communicator on the basis of the application. The application can be set to a read-only mode by an operation of a user. The setting parameters include transfer permission information. The controller checks whether or not a user is an authorized user of the radio communication apparatus, when the user is the authorized user, the controller executes the application and thereby activates the radio communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Kyungwoon Jang
  • Publication number: 20140242907
    Abstract: A system has a boundary conductor unit, which is intended to emit a boundary signal, and an at least partially independent mobile unit, which is intended to detect a boundary provided by the boundary conductor unit by means of cross-correlation. It is proposed that the mobile unit has at least one receiving unit which is intended to receive data transmitted by means of the boundary signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140242908
    Abstract: A method for applying the application of reading multiple NFC tags. By examining the context of the reading, the identification of the NFC tags, and a direction, pattern and/or sequence of reading, a corresponding action is determined and requested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Creating Revolutions LLC
    Inventor: Einar Rosenberg
  • Publication number: 20140242909
    Abstract: A data managing method of a terminal in a Near Field Communication (NFC) system. The data managing method includes setting up an NFC link with a server; transmitting to the server, a request message including access level information of the terminal; and receiving from the server, a response message that classifies whether data access is allowed or restricted, based on an access level of the terminal, wherein the access level information of the terminal is included in a header of the request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doyoung Kim, Dongkeon Kong, Dongwoo Kim, Jeongje Park, Kwanghyeon Lee, Naehyun Lim, Hyoungkyu Lim, Yong Chang
  • Publication number: 20140242910
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for allocating a personal electronic device (PED) to a seat in an aircraft, including of connecting a PED to a wireless network of the aircraft, identifying the PED to a near-field communications device of a seat of the aircraft, matching and assigning the seat to which the PED has been identified to the connection data of the PED to the wireless network of the aircraft, and unlocking seat-based control functions for the PED via the wireless network of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian UMLAUFT, Achim Loock
  • Publication number: 20140242911
    Abstract: A wireless docking system in a shared radio spectrum environment including: a docking station (320) configured with a radio (322) connected to an antenna (324); a dockee (310) configured with a radio (312) connected to an antenna (314) and using a radio standard with a carrier sensing mechanism for communication with the docking station; and an antenna efficiency reduction device (328) that reduces the sensitivity of the carrier sense mechanism in the dockee when the dockee is physically docked with the docking station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Koen Johanna Guillaume Holtman, Maurice Herman Johan Draaijer
  • Publication number: 20140242912
    Abstract: Predetermined data is transmitted from a first information processing apparatus to an unspecified number of or a plurality of other information processing apparatuses. A second information processing apparatus is capable of detecting a motion applied to the second information processing apparatus itself. When application of the predetermined motion is detected, the second information processing apparatus executes a response process to the predetermined data received from the first information processing apparatus. Thereafter, predetermined processing such as a process for establishing wireless connection is executed between the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rina IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140242913
    Abstract: Techniques for mobile device speaker control are described, including monitoring one or more devices coupled to a data network, receiving one or more data packets from each of the one or more devices, filtering the one or more data packets by evaluating a received signal strength of each of the one or more packets, the one or more packets being ordered in a priority based on a value, and comparing the received signal strength of each of the one or more packets to a threshold to determine whether the one or more devices are to perform an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AliphCom
    Inventor: Hawk Yin Pang
  • Publication number: 20140242914
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting a calibration command to multiple antenna arrays. Each antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements, a plurality of transmitter and receiver channels, and a calibration circuit comprising a calibration receiver and a calibration transmitter. The antenna arrays are connected to one another. The method also includes, for each pair of connected antenna arrays, calibrating the calibration circuits of the connected antenna arrays based on time delay differences and phase delay differences between the calibration receivers and the calibration transmitters in the pair of connected antenna arrays. In addition, the method includes calibrating the antenna elements of each antenna array using the calibrated calibration circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert William Monroe
  • Publication number: 20140242915
    Abstract: A communication apparatus selects at least one function out of a plurality of functions, searches for an external apparatus, identifies a service provided by the external apparatus searched for by the search unit, acquires functional information about a function of the external apparatus searched for by the search unit, and determines whether the searched-for external apparatus has a function corresponding to the function selected by the selection unit based on functional information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the determination by the determination unit is executed before participating in a wireless network, and performs control not to participate in a wireless network for communicating with the searched-for external apparatus if the searched-for external apparatus is determined not to have a function corresponding to the function selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Watanabe, Toshiyuki Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140242916
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are for receiving a set of individual congestion reports, wherein each individual congestion report comprises a set of congestion values and an associated location. Each individual congestion report has been generated by one of a plurality of user devices operating in a wireless communication system and is based on at least one of a downlink congestion value, an uplink congestion value, and a core congestion value. The set of individual congestion reports is correlated to form one or more local congestion reports. One or more local congestion reports are transmitted to a user device. Additionally or alternatively, user device application interactions with a user device are altered based on the one or more local congestion reports. Additionally or alternatively, network performance parameters are altered to reduce congestion in at least on region based on one or more local congestion reports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: Krishna K. Bellamkonda, Joseph F. Cramer, Jitesh R. Nair, Bryan S. Nollett, Nischal Y. Patel
  • Publication number: 20140242917
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device and method to automate the process of measuring RF noise, correlating measured noise with known sources, and making adjustments to the noise-measuring and reporting process. A wireless communication device is coupled to equipment at a fixed location, and transmits data about the operation of the equipment back to an operator, via a provider's network. Examples include fixed wireless terminals. A management entity aboard the wireless communication device performs the measurements via a transceiver and performs remedial actions when required, without requiring an onsite technician or remote assistance. The management entity may include a spectrum analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Scott D. Prather
  • Publication number: 20140242918
    Abstract: An apparatus (e.g., a wireless device) with an antenna array and a separate antenna is disclosed. The antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements having a first antenna beam. The separate antenna includes an antenna element having a second antenna beam. The antenna element of the separate antenna is separate from the antenna elements of the antenna array. The antenna array and the separate antenna are active at different times in an operational mode. The antenna array may transmit and the separate antenna may be inactive in a transmit mode. The separate antenna may receive and the antenna array may be inactive in a receive mode. The antenna array may receive and the separate antenna may transmit in a test mode. Alternatively, the antenna array may transmit and the separate antenna may receive in the test mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Haim Mendel Weissman, Lior Raviv
  • Publication number: 20140242919
    Abstract: To provide a technique for simplifying a parameter setting process required to generate a test signal based on an LTE-Advanced system. Carrier arrangement designation means 25 displays a screen for selecting one of an intra-band type or an inter-band type as the arrangement of a plurality of component carriers used in an LTE-Advanced system such that one of the intra-band type or the inter-band type is designated. Parameter file designation means 26 designates a parameter file to be allocated to the component carrier among test signal generating parameter files stored in a parameter file storage means 24. Parameter and frequency band allocation means 27 designates the component carrier to which the designated parameter file can be allocated and the allocated frequency band for communication in which the component carriers are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Shiozawa
  • Publication number: 20140242920
    Abstract: A measuring method for analyzing the propagation of electromagnetic navigation signals, wherein at least one representative transmitting unit, having a chronological signal feed scheme unambiguously assigned to the navigation signal, is assigned to each of the navigation signals. The representative transmitting units are at least intermittently operated offset in time. A characteristic transmission-free leader pause duration and transmission-free trailer pause duration or a characteristic transmitting duration is assigned to each representative transmitting unit. An analysis unit is coupled to a receiving unit and a time-dependent amplitude detection is carried out, wherein the time curve of the received amplitude values is analyzed by the analysis unit to assign the representative transmitting unit to timeslots of the received amplitude values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Geise, Achim Enders
  • Publication number: 20140242921
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a control signal. Channel state information between a coordinated base station and the terminal and between the serving base station and the terminal is determined. Information is about determined time difference or information about a phase difference of arrival between signals sent by the coordinated base station and the serving base station at the terminal according to the channel state information. Adjustment information is sent to the serving base station so that the serving base station adjusts the sending time, phase, or pre-coding manner of the signal according to the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fan Wang, Bo Xu, Yuhong Chu, Hongping Zhang, Liang Xia
  • Publication number: 20140242922
    Abstract: A radio includes a radio frequency (RF) subsystem to process analog information. A digital subsystem receives input from the RF subsystem, and may include a frequency error estimator and a transmitter. The frequency error estimator may be configured to receive samples from the digital subsystem and to estimate a frequency misalignment, between transmitter and receiver, of each of a plurality of received signals in real time. The transmitter may be configured to transmit to each of a plurality of downstream endpoints on frequencies based in part on the respective estimated frequency misalignments. Such transmissions, at a frequencies expected by each of the downstream endpoints, allows the use of narrower receiver filters by those endpoints. In one example, the plurality of received signals may be received simultaneously and be associated with packets of a plurality of different channel plans, with different channel bandwidths and/or channel spacing, and different channel modulation schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Itron, Inc.
    Inventor: Danny Ray Seely
  • Publication number: 20140242923
    Abstract: Shared filters used for both transmit and receive paths are disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus (e.g., a wireless device, an integrated circuit, or a circuit module) may include a filter and a switch. The filter operates as a transmit (TX) filter for a first band and as a receive (RX) filter for a second band. The filter may (i) receive and filter an output radio frequency (RF) signal when operating as the TX filter and (ii) receive and filter a received RF signal when operating as the RX filter. The switch is coupled to the filter and receives and passes the output RF signal to the filter or an input RF signal from the filter. The apparatus may further include a second filter operable as a TX filter for multiple bands and/or a third filter operable as an RX filter for multiple bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rimon E. Mansour, Haim M. Weissman
  • Publication number: 20140242924
    Abstract: A mode shifter connects via an input port to an antenna port of a transceiver. A port signal analyzer monitors the signal at the input port and informs a signal switch whether the signal power exceeds a threshold value. When the signal power does not exceed the threshold value, the signal switch connects the input port (and consequently the antenna port of the transceiver) to a receive path comprising a receive signal processor, an antenna selection processor, and an antenna port. When the signal exceeds the threshold value, the signal switch connects the input port (and consequently the antenna port of the transceiver) to a transmit path comprising a transmit signal processor, the antenna selection processor, and an antenna port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: INVERTIX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brecken H. UHL
  • Publication number: 20140242925
    Abstract: A wireless electronic device having first and second baseband processors is provided. In one suitable arrangement, radio-frequency power splitters and adjustable low noise amplifiers may be form in the receive paths. The use of power splitters allow signals associated with the first and second baseband processors to be received in parallel. In another suitable arrangement, radio-frequency switches are used in place of the power splitters. The states of the switches may be controlled using at least one of the first and second baseband processors. The use of switches instead of power splitters requires that wake periods associated with the first baseband processor and wake periods associated with the second baseband processor are non-overlapping. To ensure minimal wake period collision, a wake period associated with the second baseband processor may be positioned at a midpoint between two successive wake periods associated with the first baseband processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Syed A. Mujtaba, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Karthik Anantharaman, Weiping Dou, Isabel G. Mahe
  • Publication number: 20140242926
    Abstract: An analog baseband filter for a radio transceiver is provided. An analog baseband filter for a multi-mode multi-band radio transceiver includes a current-voltage conversion amplifier converting a current received at the analog baseband filter into a voltage and adjusting a gain of an output voltage of the current-voltage conversion amplifier using a plurality of resistors, and a source follower circuit compensating for temperature for the output voltage of the current-voltage conversion amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Jae-Kwon KIM, Jong-Woo LEE, Jae-Hyun LIM
  • Publication number: 20140242927
    Abstract: Systems and methods of interconnecting devices may include a connector assembly having a substrate, a set of input/output (IO) contacts, an antenna structure and transceiver logic. In one example, the transceiver logic may process one or more IO signals associated with the antenna structure and process one or more IO signals associated with the set of IO contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Stephen R. Mooney, Howard L. Heck, James E. Jaussi, Bryan K. Casper, Debabani Choudhury, Frank T. Hady
  • Publication number: 20140242928
    Abstract: An improved user interface is provided by a portable radio (100) having a housing (102) having a through-hole (110) formed therethough. The through-hole provides a user interface for accommodating a plurality of interchangeable accessories through the incorporation of electrical interface (114) and alignment features (116) within the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Chul Min Kang, LanTing L. Garra, Craig F. Siddoway
  • Publication number: 20140242929
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for transmitting and receiving RF signals, associated with different radio interfaces of communication systems, employ a direct conversion based transceiver which substantially comprises one receive signal branch and one transmit signal branch. Mixing frequencies of the different systems are generated by a single common by use of an output frequency divider in combination with the synthesizer, and by use of filtering corresponding to a system channel bandwidth by means of a controllable low-pass filter operating at baseband frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Risto Väisänen, Kim Kaltiokallio
  • Publication number: 20140242930
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure describes an antenna system with at least two linear antenna arrays, each having a plurality of antenna elements. Each array is designed to transmit and receive signals from different respective spectrum bands. The first antenna array and second antenna array are arranged to form one longer, combined linear array of antenna elements. In addition, at least one antenna element is shared between the first and second antenna arrays. In one example, the first antenna array is connected to a first RF distribution and phase-shifting network to distribute RF power and impart a phase profile across the first antenna array and the second antenna array is connected to a second RF distribution and phase-shifting network to distribute RF power and impart a phase profile across the second antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Quintel Technology Limited
    Inventors: David Edwin Barker, Lance Darren Bamford, Peter Chun Teck Song, David Sam Piazza
  • Publication number: 20140242931
    Abstract: A multichannel radio receiver is configured to define at least two channel plans, each channel plan having at least one channel. The channel plans may differ due to channel bandwidths, channel locations, channel number and/or channel spacings. At least a portion of a radio spectrum may be common to at least two of the channel plans. At least two decoders may operate simultaneously to decode different modulation schemes on each of the at least two channel plans. In one example, two channel plans overlap portions of the radio spectrum. Two different and complementary modulation schemes are used on the two channel plans, respectively. The complementary modulation schemes reject signals associated with the other. Accordingly, portions of the radio spectrum are used simultaneously by at least two channel plans and at least two modulation schemes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ITRON, INC.
    Inventor: Danny Ray Seely
  • Publication number: 20140242932
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multichannel radio-frequency receiver for electromagnetic waves, having a radio-frequency analogue section, which has an input for an electrical signal from a reception device, and having a lower-frequency section, which is connected downstream of the radiofrequency analogue section and has a plurality of parallel channels (6b, 6c; 7b, 7c) for in each case different signal levels and an evaluation circuit, in which, in the radiofrequency analogue section in order to split the signal in accordance with a predeterminable division ratio into signal elements which can be supplied to radio-frequency analogue channels (6a, 7a), downstream from which the channels (6b, 6c; 7b, 7c) of the lower-frequency section are respectively connected, and the channels (6b, 6c; 7b, 7c) of the lower-frequency section each have an evaluation circuit for detection of the phase and amplitude of the respective signal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SELEX ES GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gekat, Dieter Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20140242933
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention includes an RF including a first mixer receiving an RF signal. A second mixer also receivers the RF signal. A resonant circuit couples to a common input of the first mixer and the second mixer. A second polyphase reactive circuit coupled to an output of the second mixer. In one embodiment, a direct current circuit coupled to the output of the first mixer, injecting direct current into the system. The resonant circuit is set at a resonance frequency such that a voltage across the second polyphase reactive circuit is a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas McKay, Jonathan Gowing
  • Publication number: 20140242934
    Abstract: A hybrid combining method in a receiver is provided, and the method includes that wideband combining, e.g. using a maximum ratio combining (MRC) or an interference rejection combing (IRC) process, to combine signals distributed over a first plurality of subcarrier frequencies from antennas in the same polarization direction is performed, resulting in a combined signal for each polarization direction that is distributed over a smaller number of subcarrier frequencies, then a two-port narrowband IRC is done of these wideband combined signals for the two polarization directions, resulting in a diversity combined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Zhiheng Guo, Hai Wang, Ruiqi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140242935
    Abstract: A signal canceller includes a dual-drive electro-optic modulator having separate first and second electrical inputs. The first electrical input is coupled to a first portion of a first signal and the second electrical input is coupled to a second signal and to a second portion of the first signal. A laser generates an optical beam that propagates from the optical input to an optical output of the electro-optic modulator. The dual-drive electro-optic modulator modulates the optical beam with the first and second portions of the first signal and with the second signal. The modulation cancels at least some the first signal and generates a modulation signal with reduced first signal modulation component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: PHOTONIC SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles H. Cox, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20140242936
    Abstract: A radio may define a channel plan to include one or more channels, and each channel may include a plurality of overlapping filters. Each filter may overlap at least one other filter, such as by an expected bandwidth of an incoming signal. The overlapping filters may extend over a frequency range based in part on an expected frequency error of the incoming signal. Due in part to the overlapping nature of the filters, the incoming signal will be within at least one of the filters. Since only one of the filters must receive the incoming signal, the filters may be narrower than might otherwise be the case, particularly in an application that includes frequency error. Accordingly, the filters may be narrower than their respective channels, and therefore receive less noise and interference. This improves signal-to-noise and improves the quality of the link and range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ITRON, INC.
    Inventor: Danny Ray Seely
  • Publication number: 20140242937
    Abstract: A system can include an input signal source, a local oscillator (LO), and an intermediate frequency (IF) receiver to receive an input signal from the input signal source and an LO signal from the LO. The IF receiver can include a switch to switch between the first and second inputs to provide an output. The IF receiver can generate a calibration signal from the LO signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Franklin Merlin Borden, Marcus Kieling Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20140242938
    Abstract: A method for continuous and optimal utilization of a capacity of a mobile network that is serving mobile phones covering a specific selected geographical area in order to facilitate optimal handling of network traffic without overloading said mobile network. The method includes establishing an overview of maximum network capacity of said mobile network, establishing an overview of an identity of selected mobile phones located within said selected geographical and performing monitoring of current traffic load of one or more mobile services on said mobile network; selecting a type of barring of one or more mobile services to be performed or removed for network traffic to and/or from selected mobile phones based on said maximum network capacity, said possible maximum traffic load, and said current traffic load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: UNIFIED MESSAGING SYSTEMS AS
    Inventor: Kjell-Harald Heen
  • Publication number: 20140242939
    Abstract: A method for location reporting at a charging area level granularity is provided. The method includes detecting at a mobility management entity (MME) a transition of a user equipment (UE) from a first cell to a second cell to obtain at least a second cell identifier. The method also includes determining at the MME whether the detected UE transition constitutes a transition from a first charging area to a second charging area using the second cell identifier by comparing the second cell identifier to a charging area configuration. A charging area includes a plurality of cells that are served by at least one eNodeB. The method further includes providing to a policy server a report of the determined UE transition, if it is determined that the detected UE transition constitutes a transition from the first charging area to the second charging area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Nirav SALOT, Aeneas DODD-NOBLE
  • Publication number: 20140242940
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method of allowing user terminals to share a control right of a machine to a machine (M2M) device by a M2M service server. The method may include receiving a sharing request message from a first user terminal registered at the M2M service server to share predetermined control rights of a M2M device with a second user terminal, creating a virtual resource for the second user terminal based on information included in the sharing request message, and allowing the second user terminal to control predetermined features of the M2M device based on the created virtual resource in response to a control request message from the second user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bum-Mo KOO
  • Publication number: 20140242941
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a charging method, a charging device, a charging system, and an authentication device. According to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application, when the available service volume of the user is not enough at the time close to the tariff switch point, the operation of forcing a user to go offline may be performed selectively, depending on the specific situation. Therefore, the operation of forcing a user to go offline can meet requirements of increasingly complicated charging policies of the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Yafeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140242942
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer program products can comprise a processor module, configured to execute part of an application. The application can be for use in a communication control service. The processor can be configured to store information in a respective data structure (ASI). The device can comprise a transceiver module, configurable to send the respective data structure carrying the service feature execution results, via one of a first and a second interface conforming to different interface protocols. A controller module can block the first of the two interfaces, and is configured, in some cases to control the transceiver module to propagate the respective data structure carrying the information of the service feature execution results via the second interface. When a configuration is not blocking the first interface towards a charging system, the controller module controls the transceiver module so as to transmit the respective data structure towards the charging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Uwe Gleinig, Gerald Goermer
  • Publication number: 20140242943
    Abstract: A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Jasper Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Jahangir Mohammed, Amit Gupta, Daniel Collins, Gautam Shah, Scott Barkely, Jack McGwire
  • Publication number: 20140242944
    Abstract: A system and method that facilitates mobile device selection among available qualities of service is described herein. A telecommunications network sends a notification to a mobile device when a change in quality of service is available to the mobile device. The mobile device then enables selection of an upgrade or downgrade to the current quality of service. In response to a selection, the mobile device transmits to the telecommunications network the change in quality of service. The telecommunications network then adjusts the quality of service in accordance with the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Harvey Joul, Gamze Seckin, Pablo Tapia
  • Publication number: 20140242945
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for monitoring an application. The method comprises creating a simulated system service; establishing a connection with a function in a device driver that manages an Input/Output (I/O) channel of the device; intercepting data transmitted from the application to the function in the device driver that manages the I/O channel of the device; replacing, based on the intercepted data, a system service requested by the application with a corresponding simulated system service; and recording a request received by the simulated system service and forwarding the request to an analysis module for analysis. The present disclosure is advantageous in that the system request is intercepted during the Binder communication process of the system and the simulated system layer service is used for analyzing the behavior features of the application in the Android operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Beijing Netqin Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zeng, Huaguo Shi, Wei Yang, Yaowei Chen, Yu Lin, Shihong Zou
  • Publication number: 20140242946
    Abstract: A method of handling simultaneous communications in a communication system comprises a user equipment (UE), a first base station and the second base station, where the UE has been connected to the first base station. The method comprises the first base station determining to allocate a cell of the second base station to the UE; the first base station transmitting a cell addition request message to the second base station in response to the determination, for requesting the second base station to allocate radio resources of the cell of the second base station to communicate with UE; and the first base station transmitting a first radio resource control (RRC) message to the UE, wherein the first RRC message comprises information related to the security key and information related to the security algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20140242947
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a geo-fencing environment for the information handling system. The method further includes monitoring a stream of context information. In addition, the method includes determining whether the geo-fencing environment should be dynamically modified responsive to new context information in the stream. Furthermore, the method includes dynamically modifying the geo-fencing environment responsive to the determining so indicating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Raziuddin Ali, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip M. Seibert, Yuan-Chang Lo, Douglas Miles Anson