Specific Paging Technique Patents (Class 455/458)
  • Patent number: 9462065
    Abstract: A system for analyzing the use of location-based service applications including: a mobile device. A carrier-positioning infrastructure interacts with the mobile device for enabling the use of location-based applications by the mobile device. A mobile location-based application provider communicates with the carrier-positioning infrastructure to provide a location-based application to the mobile device. A location transaction platform monitors the use of the location-based application by the mobile device. An analytics server communicates with the location transaction platform and location stamps an occurrence of use of the location-based application by the mobile device and performs a task in accordance with predetermined rules as a function of the location-based stamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: LOC-AID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Isaias Sudit, Naomi Morita
  • Patent number: 9432992
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for preventing, when two types of subframes (first subframe and second subframe) exist in a wireless communication system, a high version terminal from performing unnecessary operation for the second subframe. Through the present invention, the high version terminal skips unnecessary operation, resulting in reduction of unnecessary power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Jang, Kyeong In Jeong, Gert Jan Van Lieshout, Soeng Hun Kim, Jin-Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 9432968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for managing signaling in wireless communication network. Base stations in the network will be divided into groups, but each base station's coverage area will be deemed a separate respective tracking area, and, for each group of base stations, an intermediary will manage transmission of registration and paging signaling between a paging controller and the group of base stations. In practice, when a tracking-area update (TAU) arrives from a WCD in coverage of the group of base stations, the intermediary may forward the TAU to the paging controller only if the TAU represents the WCD's movement into coverage of the group of base stations. Further, when a paging message arrives for a WCD, the intermediary may forward the paging message to the appropriate base station in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Muhammad A. Naim, Yu Zhou
  • Patent number: 9420436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a group managing method and a PUSH Server. The method comprises: allocating a first group identifier to a group in an Application Server (AS); acquiring, according to a first identifier of a user joining the group, parameter information of the user, wherein the parameter information of the user comprises a second identifier of the user, location information of a user equipment (UE) corresponding to the user, and an identifier indicating whether the user enables reception of PUSH notification; establishing a group-based transmission bearer with a core network node; and generating group context corresponding to the first group identifier, wherein the group context comprises parameter information of the user in the group and information of the transmission bearer. Therefore, the group management efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Lingli Pang, Qufang Huang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 9414356
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving paging information in a wireless communication system having a system bandwidth being an integer multiple of a minimum reception bandwidth of a User Equipment (UE), in which a system band is divided into frequency bands having a bandwidth equal to the minimum reception bandwidth of the UE, a Paging Indicator (PI) of the paging information is transmitted in each of the frequency bands, the PI including a group identifier (ID) of a group to which the UE belongs, and a paging message of the paging information is transmitted in one of the frequency bands, the paging message including an ID of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Young-Bum Kim, Ju-Ho Lee, Joon-Young Cho, Kyeong-In Jeong
  • Patent number: 9408183
    Abstract: Methods and devices for resolving paging collisions in a communication device (105-1) are described. The method includes detecting a probable paging collision between two subscriber identity modules (SIMs) (115) of the communication device (105-1) and determining whether at least one SIM of the communication device (105-1) has a non-serving cell in a corresponding broadcast control channel (BCCH) allocation list (BA-list). Further, the method includes ascertaining, based on one or more selection parameters, whether the at least one SIM can be selected for forced cell reselection and indicating, based on the ascertaining, exclusion of a currently serving cell of a SIM selected for the forced cell reselection from normal cell reselection procedure. Further, the forced cell reselection is initiated for the selected SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Beena Joy Chirayil
  • Patent number: 9398166
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for communicating paging area information. A radio access network (RAN) side device can determine a smaller area for group paging by using information of a group paging area provided by a services capability server (SCS) and cell coverage information. Therefore, when users are managed in groups, paging areas determined can be more accurate, and paging efficiency can be increased, waste of resources resulted from performing group paging in a too-large paging area can be avoided. The mechanism can prevent random access of a large number of users who have received the group paging from overloading the RAN and from impacting conventional human-to-human (H2H) users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Huiying Zhang, Ying Zhang
  • Patent number: 9392488
    Abstract: A method, gateway apparatus, computer program, and computer program product for mitigating end user congestion in a wireless network is provided. The gateway apparatus is in a core network and receives from a radio access network (RAN) a message comprising cell congestion information indicating that a cell of the RAN is in a congested state. The gateway apparatus receives via a packet data network (PDN) a downlink (DL) network packet addressed to a wireless communication device, WCD, attached to the core network via said cell of the RAN. In response to receiving the DL network packet, the gateway apparatus determines a classification of the DL network packet. After determining the classification of the DL network packet, the gateway apparatus processes the DL network packet in accordance with the cell congestion information and the determined classification of the DL network packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: John Stenfelt, Josefin Karlsson
  • Patent number: 9392634
    Abstract: In some instances, a terminal device may communication with the network infrequently. Therefore, in order to save system resources, a PDN or PDP connection associated with the terminal device may be revoked or deleted. Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a gateway node and mobility management node for providing an improved means of re-establishing a previously revoked or deleted PDP/PDN connection in response to a downlink data notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Hans Rönneke, Yong Yang, Peter Hedman
  • Patent number: 9386106
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of community detection of a missing device is described. The method includes receiving a missing device report having identifying information of a missing device, sending a search command to an agent including the missing device report, and receiving a search report from the agent comprising whether or not the identifying information of the missing device is detected in a network to which the agent is connected. Also a method of community detection of a missing device through receiving a search command having identifying information of a missing device is described. The method includes monitoring network activity of a network for the identifying information of the missing device connected to the network, and sending a search report comprising whether or not the identifying information of the missing device is detected in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Bhaskar Perumal, Charles A. Payne
  • Patent number: 9380561
    Abstract: A method and a system for implementing CS domain paging are disclosed, applied in scenarios of performing CS domain paging for a called UE after ISR function is introduced in PS domain, and comprising: MSC/VLR only storing one Gs association; during CS domain paging, MSC/VLR sending a CS domain paging request message to the PS domain network element recorded in the Gs association in the MSC/VLR; after receiving the message, the PS domain network element initiating one or two CS domain paging procedures in the PS domain to transmit the CS domain paging to the called UE; or sending a paging response to the MSC/VLR directly without initiating CS domain paging. A method for transferring service information is also disclosed, applied in the scenarios that ISR function is activated in PS domain, and comprising: transmitting service message(s) between the ISR-associated PS domain network elements serving the UE to implement transfer of service information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Hu, Zhiming Yu, Jinguo Zhu, Lei Yu, Liping Geng
  • Patent number: 9374695
    Abstract: A mobile communications system including a mobile terminal 1 and a base station 2 which relays communications between a network and the mobile terminal 1, in which the base station 2 can deliver information to the mobile terminal 1 by using an MBMS, in which the base station 2 sets a flag indicating presence or absence of emergency information to a control channel used for the MBMS, and notifies the presence or absence of the emergency information to the mobile terminal 1 by using the description of the flag set to the control channel for the MBMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: TCL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Keiko Tada, Yoshinori Takahashi, Hideyuki Nakamizo, Kazunori Takahashi, Tatsuya Itoh, Mitsuru Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9370039
    Abstract: A radio base station in a first mobile communication system is disclosed. The radio base station includes a radio communication unit; a network communication unit; and a determining unit. If a massage received by the network communication unit from a switching station indicates that a mobile station is requesting a service which is not provided in the first mobile communication system but which is provided in, a second mobile communication system and it is determined by the determining unit that a handover to the second mobile communication system cannot be conducted, the network communication unit requests the switching station to release a connection with the mobile station. Then the radio communication unit reports to the mobile station that the connection should be released in accordance with an instruction from the switching station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tadashi Uchiyama, Kazunori Obata, Masafumi Masuda, Seigo Harano
  • Patent number: 9369984
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes receiving a first scan report generated by a first node of a wireless communication network. The scan report includes identification information for a plurality of nodes coupled to the wireless communication network. The plurality of nodes comprises a second node whose location is unknown. The scan report also includes a plurality of time values, each time value corresponding to a communication time between the first node and each of the plurality of nodes. The method further includes determining a first plurality of distances using the first plurality of time values. Each distance of the first plurality of distances corresponds to a distance between the first node and each of the plurality of nodes. In addition, the method includes determining location information for the second node utilizing the plurality of distances. Further, the method includes providing a service to at least one wireless device utilizing the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Wei-Peng Chen
  • Patent number: 9357523
    Abstract: A method includes receiving from a core network entity a paging message including a permanent user identity of a user for a specific user equipment, and determining, using the permanent user identity, a set of small cells to which the paging message should be sent based on a small cell last visited by the specific user equipment and small cells that are neighbors to the last-visited small cell. The paging message, without the permanent user identity, is sent to the determined set of small cells. Another method includes, responsive to determining a paging message for a specific user equipment is to be communicated toward the specific user equipment, determining whether a gateway can receive paging messages comprising a permanent user identity and a temporary user identity, and responsive thereto, sending the paging message for the specific user equipment to the gateway. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Umamaheswar Kakinada, Vishnu O V Ram, Joseph Thaliath, Dipu Karuthedathu, Sagar Kiritkumar Parmar, Gayatri Ve, Rahul Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9351276
    Abstract: A paging processing method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system are disclosed. The paging processing method includes: receiving, by a mobility management network element, a downlink data notification message which includes service attribute information of a downlink data packet; obtaining the service attribute information; and initiating paging of the user equipment based on different policies according to the service attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Yin, Caixia Qi
  • Patent number: 9351207
    Abstract: An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include configuring a Home eNode B (HeNB) with plurality of tracking area identities (TAIs), wherein each TAI is served by one of a plurality of HeNB gateways (HeNB-GWs); configuring a TAI list for a Mobility Management Entity (MME), wherein the TAI list includes each of the plurality of TAIs; broadcasting a first TAI by the HeNB, wherein the first TAI is served by a first HeNB-GW; and switching the broadcasting from the first TAI to a second TAI served by a second HeNB-GW and re-parenting the HeNB from the first HeNB-GW to the second HeNB-GW if the HeNB loses connectivity with the first HeNB-GW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin L. Gorey, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 9351278
    Abstract: A determination may be made that a region of the RAN is serving more than a threshold extent of WCDs configured for machine-to-machine communication. The region of the RAN may include a set of one or more wireless coverage areas, and each wireless coverage area in the set of wireless coverage areas may include at least one paging channel. The paging channel parameters of each wireless coverage area in the set of wireless coverage areas may be modified to increase a rate at which the RAN successfully pages WCDs via the set of wireless coverage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventor: Siddharth S. Oroskar
  • Patent number: 9344930
    Abstract: A method for performing tune away in a wireless communication device includes: tuning away the wireless communication device from a first communication network for a first tune away period to receive a first page burst from a second communication network, and during the first tune away period sequentially tuning to a plurality of neighbor cells of the second communication network and performing signal quality measurements on signals received from each of the plurality of neighbor cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raghavendra Shyam Anand, Ramesh Kumar Gengiti
  • Patent number: 9338762
    Abstract: A wireless communication device communicates an extended monitoring window indicator to a core network node. The extended monitoring window indicator indicates that the wireless communication device is capable of monitoring a paging channel of a radio access node using an extended monitoring window that includes one or more paging blocks in addition to a nominal paging block associated with the wireless communication device. The extended monitoring window indicator indicates the additional paging blocks of the extended monitoring window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: John Walter Diachina, Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Anders Christensson
  • Patent number: 9338708
    Abstract: A method for parameter management in a wireless cellular communications system, which includes a first base station and a second base station equipped for communications in the communications system, records one or more paging area parameters broadcast by a base station serving a neighbor cell of a cell served by the first base station. The paging area parameters form part of a relation of the first base station and are maintained by the first base station. The method further includes transferring the recorded paging area parameters from the first base station to the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Henrik Olofsson, Xuejun Yang
  • Patent number: 9332417
    Abstract: A wireless communications device is provided with a plurality of card slots, a first wireless communications module, and a second wireless communications module. The card slots are inserted with at least one subscriber identity card. The first wireless communications module performs wireless transceiving in compliance with at least a first wireless technology. The second wireless communications module determines at least a first subscriber number and a second subscriber number from the at least one subscriber identity card, and enables the wireless transceiving of the first wireless communications module using the first subscriber number. Also, the second wireless communications module performs wireless transceiving in compliance with at least a second wireless technology using the second subscriber number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ker Zhang, Hong-Kui Yang, Sheng-Hung Wang, Huai-Wen Su, Jian Gu, Amelia Hungmei I, Chia-Hsun Liu
  • Patent number: 9319847
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of content transmission based on multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) in a machine type communication (MTC). A BM-SC receives a session start time from a MTC server; sends to a plurality of MTC devices a service announcement including the session start time; begins to establish MBMS bearers to the plurality of MTC devices when the session start time is reached; and transmits MTC service content from the MTC server to the plurality of MTC devices via the MBMS bearers. A MTC device receives a service announcement including a session start time therein; when the session start time is reached, wakes up to receive a notification about the MBMS bearers; and then receives MTC service contents transmitted via the MBMS bearers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Hua Chao
  • Patent number: 9320078
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, by a UE, re-attach processing for MME#2, upon receiving “Paging”; transmitting, by MME#1, “DDN Ack” including “EPS Bearer ID#1” included in “DDN” and “Cause=Re-Attach Success” (information indicating that re-attach processing is successful), to S-GW#1 specified by S-GW address #1 included in the “DDN”; and releasing, by S-GW#1, a PDN connection #1 between S-GW#1 and P-GW#1, upon receiving the “DDN Ack”, the PDN connection #1 corresponding to the “EPS Bearer ID#1” included in the “DDN Ack”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 9319924
    Abstract: A method for controlling effective time of a terminal trigger message is disclosed. The method includes: a mobility management unit receives a terminal trigger message from a Machine Type Communication (MTC) application server; and in a scenario of congestion control, the mobility management unit determines that a time value of a back-off timer is longer than a time value of an effective timer related to the terminal trigger message, and reconfigures the time value for the effective timer related to the terminal trigger message. A system for controlling effective time of a terminal trigger message is further disclosed. With the present disclosure, before the back-off timer of a terminal expires, a network can reserve the trigger message to avoid an unsuccessful trigger of the terminal, thus improving a success rate of triggering the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Yang, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 9313748
    Abstract: A mobile communication system of an embodiment is a system in which a plurality of radio base stations receive an uplink signal transmitted from a radio terminal coordinated with one another. Each of the plurality of radio base stations comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a path loss between the radio terminal and the radio base station; and an interface that notifies the path loss acquired by the acquisition unit to another radio base station. At least one the radio base station of the plurality of radio base stations includes a notification unit that notifies the radio terminal of the path loss used in the transmission power control of the uplink signal, in accordance with the path losses between each of the plurality of radio base stations and the radio terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9307491
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory connected with the processor, the memory to store logic. A DRX module also connects with the processor. The DRX module alternatively provides both a CS DRX cycle length and a PS DRX cycle length observed from network configuration. The processor executes the logic stored in the memory to instruct the DRX module to use a longer of a CS DRX cycle length or a PS DRX cycle length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ozgur Ekici, Kavya Budugutta Ravikumar
  • Patent number: 9301279
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for paging a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method for paging a UE includes: sending a downlink data notification message inclusive of paging range indicator information to a core network control plane entity; receiving a paging message sent by the core network control plane entity and inclusive of a raging range; and initiating a paging to a UE corresponding to a user ID in the paging range. The apparatus for paging a UE includes: a first sending module, a first receiving module, and a paging initiating module. A system for paging a UE is further provided. With the method, apparatus, and system for paging a UE, the UE can be paged in only a set paging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weisheng Jin, Hai Liu, Qiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9295088
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for a terminal having latency tolerance to perform procedures for connection with a network in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method is characterized in comprising the steps of: transmitting a connection request message to the network; receiving a connection set message from the network in response to the connection request message; and transmitting a connection set completion message to the network, wherein the connection request message comprises a low priority connection indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Sunghoon Jung, Seungjune Yi, Sungduck Chun, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 9282578
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, by a UE, re-attach processing for MME#2, upon receiving “Paging”; transmitting, by MME#1, “DDN Ack” including the IMSI of the UE, which is included in the “DDN”, and “Cause=Re-Attach Success”, to S-GW#1 specified by S-GW address #1 included in the “DDN”; and releasing, by S-GW#1, a PDN connection #1 between S-GW#1 and P-GW#1, upon receiving the “DDN Ack”, the PDN connection #1 corresponding to the IMSI of the UE included in the “DDN Ack”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Patent number: 9282534
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of establishing, by a session control node S/P-CSCF, a prioritized-call bearer between a gateway device P-GW and a mobile station UE when an Invite signal including prioritized-call information is received; a step of transmitting, by the session control node S/P-CSCF, the Invite signal including the prioritized-call information to the gateway device P-GW after the prioritized-call bearer is established; and a step of transmitting, by the gateway device P-GW, the Invite signal including the prioritized-call information to the mobile station UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu
  • Patent number: 9282536
    Abstract: Access terminals employing multiple subscriptions are adapted for paging channel arbitration. According to at least one example, an access terminal can determine whether there will be a collision between a first paging channel associated with a first subscription and a second paging channel associated with a second subscription. The access terminal may additionally determine whether a time period between a paging indicator bit for the first subscription and the second paging channel is greater than or equal to an amount of time it takes to switch from operating on the first subscription to operating on the second subscription. The access terminal can monitor for a paging indicator bit indicating an incoming paging message on the first paging channel and, if no paging message is indicated, may switch to the second subscription to monitor the second paging channel for incoming paging messages. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Dhananjaya Sarma Ponukumati
  • Patent number: 9282136
    Abstract: A method for distributed computing between a host computer and at least one accelerator device interconnected through a network includes profiling a data transfer rate and a computation rate for a range of data sizes to find an optimal chunk size for the data transfer through the network; splitting or aggregating a size of the data stored in a memory in the host computer for encapsulating the data into a chunk with the optimal chunk size; dispatching the encapsulated data to the accelerator device; and instructing pipeline computation to the accelerator device with respect to the encapsulated data received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: D. Gary Chapman, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Toshio Suganuma
  • Patent number: 9276666
    Abstract: A wireless-communication system includes a first network and a second network (e.g., an EV-DO network and a 1xRTT network, respectively). A wireless-communication-system entity determines that a mobile station is engaged in a first type of communication (e.g., a voice call) via the first network. In response to making the determination, the entity configures the second network to send second-network data (e.g., 1xRTT page messages) to the mobile station via an inter-network connection interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Deveshkumar Rai, Saravana Velusamy, Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy
  • Patent number: 9264993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method for saving power of a femto base station. The present invention includes obtaining reference synchronization information used in a prescribed area to enable a first femto base station to perform a sleep mode operation, shifting to a sleep mode if a mobile station does not exist within the first femto base station, and enabling the first femto base station to be synchronized with at least one second femto base station belonging to the prescribed area using the reference synchronization information, wherein each of the femto base stations included in the prescribed area achieves synchronization of the sleep mode operation using the reference synchronization information. Accordingly, it is able to minimize power consumption of a femto base station and interference with a macro cell in a wireless access system supporting a femtocell. And, a mobile station within a femtocell is able to perform reliable communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Gi Won Park, Yong Ho Kim, Ki Seon Ryu
  • Patent number: 9264983
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: notifying, from a network node (200, 300) to a mobile station (100), a communication service provided by a target radio access technology in which the mobile station (100) is to be in idle mode; storing, at the mobile station (100), the communication service notified by the network node (200, 300); and starting, at the mobile station (100), a connection procedure on the basis of the stored communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9241291
    Abstract: A method for reducing handover interruption time in a mobile station is disclosed, in which a mobile station performs a ranging procedure using a dedicated ranging code previously allocated from a target base station. The dedicated ranging code allocated by the target base station may be provided through the serving base station, or may directly be provided from the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyu Jin Park, Doo Hyun Sung, Hyun Woo Lee, Han Gyu Cho, Eun Jong Lee, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Jae Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: 9232498
    Abstract: Techniques for managing traffic delivery to a group of devices are described. In some embodiments, a method for communicating in a wireless network may comprise receiving, at a base station, information intended for a group of devices identified by a device group identifier (DGID), mapping, at the base station, the DGID to a common identifier known by each device in the group of devices, and multicasting the information from the base station to the group of devices over one or more channels of the wireless network using the common identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shantidev Mohanty, Honggang Li, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 9225374
    Abstract: A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a battery, a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card, and a control unit. The mobile device transmits residual power information of the battery to a base station, and receives a SIM card polling cycle determined on the basis of the residual power information from the base station. Thereafter, the mobile device periodically determines the state of the SIM card in the received SIM card polling cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongseok Seo, Yihwa Her
  • Patent number: 9220116
    Abstract: A wireless device receives control message(s) configuring a plurality of cell groups comprising a first cell group and a second cell group. The wireless device transmits, as a part of a random access process, a first random access preamble in the second cell group. The wireless device aborts the random access process if a first time alignment timer of the first cell group expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9215660
    Abstract: On the mobile communication terminal 100 side, when the VOIP communication application stored in the storage unit 104 is activated in accordance with an instruction from the user (step S101), the application activation judging unit 107a judges that the VOIP communication application has been activated. Upon the judgment, the control unit 107 selects a cycle (for example, 1.152 seconds: code F10) that is shorter than 5.152 seconds, generates an EISP signal based on the selection, and transmits the generated EISP signal to the base station 200 via the transmission unit 102 (step S102). After this, upon receiving an ACK signal, the control unit 107 starts to activate the reception unit 103 at the cycle of 1.152 seconds to receive the report signal at the cycle of 1.152 seconds (step S105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Noritake Shiga, Shuji Kitano
  • Patent number: 9210643
    Abstract: A method for enabling a forwarding to network operation in a cellular mobile communication system is described, the cellular mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile stations and at least one base station, the method comprising: reporting forwarding capability of a first mobile station of the plurality of mobile stations with the at least one base station; discovering neighboring mobile stations to the first mobile station; selecting a second mobile station from the neighboring mobile stations and establishing a forwarding link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station; allocating radio resources for a link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station; and synchronizing the link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station to establish the forwarding network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Anh Tuan Hoang, Haiguang Wang, Jaya Shankar s/o Pathmasuntharam, Chee Ming Joseph Teo, Wai Leong Yeow, Shoukang Zheng, Zhongding Lei, Choong Hock Mar
  • Patent number: 9198157
    Abstract: Local IP access paging schemes facilitate paging of an access terminal when packets destined for the access terminal are received via local IP access. In some implementations, a local entity acquires information that enables local paging of the access terminal by sniffing messages passing through the local entity. In some implementations, a local entity sends a packet or message to cause the core network to page an access terminal when a local IP access packet destined for the access terminal arrives at the local entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lijun Zhao, Parag Arun Agashe, Peter H. Rauber, Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Damanjit Singh, Gavin Bernard Horn, Gerardo Giaretta
  • Patent number: 9185530
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities to optimize procedures relating to machine type communication devices. Individual UEs may be grouped together in order to optimize procedures relating to members of the group. For example, a group of UE devices may be predefined or a group may be configured by a network associated with the UEs. One or more of the members of the group may be designated as a special UE or a master UE. The special UE or master UE may perform an action on behalf of one or more members of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvie Gomes, Diana Pani, Bhaskar M. Anepu, Christopher Cave
  • Patent number: 9179299
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a portable electronic device has wireless communications circuitry. Antennas in the electronic device may be used in transmitting radio-frequency antenna signals. A coupler and antenna signal phase and magnitude measurement circuitry may be used to determine when external objects are in the vicinity of the antenna by making antenna impedance measurements. In-band and out-of-band phase and magnitude signal measurements may be made in determining whether external objects are present. Additional sensors such as motion sensors, light and heat sensors, acoustic and electrical sensors may produce data that can be combined with the proximity data gathered using the antenna-based proximity sensor. In response to detecting that an external object such as a user's body is within a given distance of the antenna, the electronic device may reduce transmit powers, switch antennas, steer a phased antenna array, switch communications protocols, or take other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Schlub, Ruben Caballero
  • Patent number: 9167556
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may take advantage of unused space in general page messages (GPMs) by including multiple instances of a given page in the same GPM, in an effort to improve the chances that the intended mobile station receives the page. An exemplary paging method involves: (a) before a transmission of a general page message (GPM) that is formatted to include up to a maximum number of page records, making a determination that less than the maximum number of page records are scheduled to be included in the GPM; (b) in response to the determination, selecting, from the page records that are scheduled to be included in the GPM, at least one page record for which to include two or more instances in the GPM; and (c) transmitting the GPM, wherein two or more instances of the at least one selected page record are included in the transmission of the GPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Sachin R Vargantwar, Siddharth S Oroskar
  • Patent number: 9161194
    Abstract: In a wireless base station, a specific information receiver receives specific information delivered from a higher-level device to a wireless terminal. A specific information deliverer delivers the specific information to the wireless terminal via multiple physical channels activated in a wireless base station. Where a common channel via which information is periodically broadcast to multiple wireless terminals and a shared channel of which available radio resources are allocated to wireless terminals to transmit voice data and the like to the terminals are activated in the wireless base station, for example, the specific information deliverer can deliver the specific information using the common channel if the wireless terminal is in a standby state, and can deliver the specific information using the shared channel if the wireless terminal is in a communicating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hajime Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9155064
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and device for processing paging message when Idle State Signalling Reduction (ISR) is active. The method includes the following step: a Mobility Management Entity (MME) determines that a Mobile Switching Center (MSC)/Visited Location Register (VLR) is a default MSC/VLR and the paging message is used for a Short Message Service (SMS), the MME does not send the paging message to a Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN). The present invention can reduce the unnecessary paging signalling in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) and the 2nd Generation (2G)/3rd Generation (3G), therefore avoiding the network resource waste occurred in the interface of the MME and the SGSN, in the air interface of a General Packet Radio Service/Enhanced Data Rate for Global System for Mobile communication Evolution Radio Access Network (GERAN)/Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), and in the MSC/VLR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Ming Al
  • Patent number: 9144091
    Abstract: A method by a User Equipment (UE) is described. The method includes a receiving radio resource control (RRC) message to map a data radio bearer (DRB) to at least one of a first set of cell(s) and a second set of cell(s). A first DRB set is mapped to the first set of cell(s) and a second DRB set is mapped to the second set of cell(s). For each set of cell(s), DRBs correspond to a MAC entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Yamada, Ahmad Khoshnevis, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 9131461
    Abstract: Providing paging controls for mobile communication is described herein. By way of example, the paging controls can comprise paging occasions of a wireless signal determined from a formula based on an integer raised to a function of a constant power (e.g., 2^K or 2^(K?L), where K and/or L are constant). Selected paging occasions can be grouped within the wireless signal, or distributed throughout a subset of time frames of the signal. Furthermore, paging groups can be assigned to each of the paging occasions by employing distinct identifiers of mobile device assigned to each paging occasion. By employing various paging occasions and paging groups, false alarm pages can be mitigated. According to at least one aspect, system information can be efficiently broadcast to multiple devices (e.g., all devices in a cell) by employing at least one paging group assigned for cell-wide paging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Masato Kitazoe