Base Station Detail Patents (Class 455/561)
  • Patent number: 8768333
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for communicating by radio with mobile stations located in a radio communication area of the communication apparatus and for connecting to a network of a communication carrier, the communication apparatus includes obtainment means for obtaining information on a selection equipment for selecting a control equipment on a basis of data stored in a detachable data storage device in case of the data storage device being connected to the communication apparatus, reception means for receiving information on the control equipment selected from a plurality of control equipments by the selection equipment accessed from the communication apparatus on a basis of the obtained information on the selection equipment, from the selection equipment, and connection means for performing communication by radio to the mobile station with the selected control equipment on a basis of the received information on the control equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Tatsushi Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 8768415
    Abstract: A wireless base station includes a storage unit and a processor. The processor transmits to a first wireless terminal a first request for transmitting a first response including first identifiers used to identify a first base stations. The first wireless terminal is capable of receiving a signal from each of the first base stations. The processor receives the first response from the first wireless terminal. The processor stores the first response in the storage unit. The processor transmits to a second wireless terminal a second request for transmitting a second response including second identifiers used to identify second base stations. The second wireless terminal is capable of receiving a signal from each of the second base stations. The processor receives the second response from the second wireless terminal. The processor determines whether the wireless base station has been displaced based on the first identifiers and the second identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Michiko Anbe
  • Patent number: 8768416
    Abstract: A communication system, apparatus and method are provided according to embodiments of the present invention. The communication system includes: a base band unit (BBU), at least two antennas and at least two radio-frequency (RF) units, where the at least two RF units are connected with the BBU respectively; and each of the antennas is connected with at least two RF units respectively, so that a signal received from a same sector by an antenna is sent to the BBU via different RF units. With the embodiments of the present invention, the reliability of RF units may be improved without increasing the hardware cost of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong He, Hui Ni
  • Publication number: 20140179324
    Abstract: A method for operating a femtocell in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: triggering the switching from the operation mode for providing a service to closed subscriber group (CSG) terminals which belong to a specific terminal group and to non-CSG terminals which do not belong to the specific terminal group, to the operation mode for providing the service only to said CSG terminals; and commanding said non-CSG terminals to change the operation mode, and carrying out a handover. The method of the present invention improves efficiency of femtocell operation, and reduces restrictions on terminals disposed in the vicinity of the femtocell. The method of the present invention can utilize the unused frequency range of the femtocell, thereby providing a service with a high data ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: Yongseok LEE
  • Patent number: 8761141
    Abstract: Wide area transport networks for mobile Radio Access Networks, and methods of use are provided herein. An exemplary wide area transport network may include a plurality of network segments that include at least one wireline network and at least one wireless network communicatively coupled with one another. Each of the plurality of network segments may be configured to transmit at least one of a plurality of signals communicated between a baseband module and a wireless transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: E-Blink
    Inventor: Frederic Leroudier
  • Patent number: 8761785
    Abstract: When enabled with common reference signal interference cancelation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 8761834
    Abstract: A MIMO base station is provided that includes a multi-channel transmitter having an input Fourier Transform Matrix (FTM) and an output FTM that are each coupled to an intervening signal processing section having multiple radio frequency (RF) amplifiers. A signal applied to an input port of the input FTM is distributed to all RF amplifiers of the transmitter by the input FTM and then is recombined by the output FTM such that the signal is routed to a single antenna of the multiple antennas of an antenna array. Thus, for both MIMO and non-MIMO transmissions, all RF amplifiers are used to amplify each input signal, but the non-MIMO transmission signal then is recombined such that only a single transmit antenna then is used to transmit the signal. The base station further provides antenna selection for a single antenna transmission and gain allocation among the multiple antennas for a MIMO transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Yehuda Y. Luz, Jiangnan Jason Chen
  • Patent number: 8761665
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for controlling the ringtone, camera, and communication functions of a mobile terminal using a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip module and an external Radio Frequency (RF) reader. The apparatus includes an NFC chip module, a base band chip, and a USIM card. The NFC chip module is electrically connected to the base band chip of a mobile terminal, allows a command data signal, received from an external RF reader via an RF antenna, to be transmitted to the base band chip or a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) card of the mobile terminal, and receives the result of terminal processing of the base band chip which operates in compliance with an external command, and transmits the result of the terminal processing to the external RF reader via the RF antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: AQ Corporation
    Inventor: Sang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8762510
    Abstract: A common management system is configured for use in an antenna system that distributes radio frequency signals for a first wireless communication service provider and a second wireless communication service provider using the same distribution network. The common management system includes a software element and an interface to communicatively couple the software element to: a first tenant network management system operated by the first wireless communication service provider, a second tenant network management system operated by the second wireless communication service provider, and entities within the antenna system. The software element is configured to receive control messages sent from the first tenant network management system and to receive control messages sent from the second tenant network management system. The software element is further configured to forward control messages to entities within the antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: John Sabat, Jr., Jeffrey R. Millar
  • Publication number: 20140162660
    Abstract: A radio base station and a method therein for management of neighbour relations with respect to neighbouring radio base stations are provided. The radio base station is connected to an Operation and Maintenance, O&M system requesting performance measurement data relating to the neighbour relations from the radio base station. The radio base station 200, 300, 400 is configured to associate each neighbour relation with a pre-defined first or a predefined second neighbour relation type, wherein the first neighbour relation type indicates that the neighbour relation is to be monitored and the second neighbour relation type indicates that the neighbour relation is to be unmonitored. The base station is further configured to collect performance measurement data relating to mobility for neighbour relations associated with the first neighbour relation type, and to send the collected performance measurement data only for neighbour relations associated with the first neighbour relation type to the O&M system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Loborg, Fredrik Gunnarsson
  • Publication number: 20140162679
    Abstract: In a cell phone telecommunication system having a macrocell and a small cell coextensive with or adjacent to the macrocell and sharing a common frequency band, interference can occur between a user device operating in the small cell, the local base station operating the user devices in the small cell on one hand and another user device serviced by a main base station for the macrocell. In order to reduce this interference, the shape of the transmission beam from at least one of the user devices or base stations is shaped into a narrow beam steered to be directed at the respective receiving unit. Alternatively, the shape of the transmission beam has a null point and the beam is steered so that its null point is directed toward the affected unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Haim Harel, Phil Chen, Kenneth Kludt
  • Publication number: 20140162656
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a cell measurement method. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal accessing a first cell, signaling of a third cell; and performing measurement on a second cell after the signaling of the third cell is detected, where the first cell has the same frequency as the third cell; the first cell and the second cell are inter-frequency cells; and the second cell is associated with the third cell. According to the solution, the embodiments of the present invention provide a cell measurement solution which is different from that in the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Chai, Lixin Sun, Bo Lin
  • Publication number: 20140162674
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a power control method and apparatus. The power control method of the present invention includes: when a service runs in a first-standard communication system, determining a transmit power P1 of the first-standard communication system; determining that the transmit power P1 is higher than or equal to a threshold value P2 of power interference of the first-standard communication system to a second-standard communication system; use a power lower than P1 to send data on an interference frequency of the first-standard communication system. According to the power control method in the present invention, a signal transmit power of the interfering frequency of the first-standard communication system can be reduced when it is determined that the first-standard communication system will cause interference to the second-standard communication system, thereby reducing the interference of the first-standard communication system to the second-standard communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Yang, Xiang Peng, Zhen Li
  • Patent number: 8750140
    Abstract: A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A mobility management entity 502 may receive a notification of a connection attempt by a mobile system 104. The mobility management entity 502 may generate a network access message element 650 having a bearer protocol parameter. The mobility management entity 502 may send the network access message element 650 to the mobile system 104 via a home network base station 110. The mobile system 104 may use the bearer protocol parameter to establish packet data network connectivity with a home network 108 associated with the home network base station 110. The mobile system 104 may determine a traffic bearer for a data traffic set based on the bearer protocol parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hao Bi, Howard Benn, Scott Droste, Jian Wu
  • Patent number: 8750708
    Abstract: A layout apparatus for communicating includes, but is not limited to, a structural device, a first signal adjustment device and a radio device. The structural device is designed for configuring the layout of a room, and the first signal adjustment device is adapted for the electrical-optical conversion of an antenna signal. Furthermore, the first signal adjustment device and the radio device are arranged in the structural device, and the radio device is connected to the first signal adjustment device in such a manner that the antenna signal can be transmitted and/or received as a radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Tim Fuss, Daniel Glaser
  • Patent number: 8750253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for wireless communication comprising a first transceiver circuitry (BS) connected to a plurality of virtual antenna ports of an antenna arrangement; each virtual antenna port is a combination of one or more physical antenna ports. The first transceiver circuitry (BS) is configured to: communicate with a second transceiver circuitry (UE) via the antenna ports of the antenna arrangement; receive primary beamshaping information related to a first link (Downlink) between the first transceiver circuitry (BS) and the second transceiver circuitry (UE); determine secondary beamshaping information related to a second link (Uplink) between the second transceiver circuitry (UE) and the first transceiver circuitry (BS); and apply at least one weight vector based on the primary and secondary beamshaping information for subsequent transmission of signals from the first transceiver circuitry (BS) via the plurality of virtual antenna ports of the antenna arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sven Oscar Petersson, Bo Hagerman
  • Patent number: 8750933
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamforming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improve user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Song, Lai King Tee, Jun Li
  • Publication number: 20140155071
    Abstract: A method and system for bandwidth allocation in a wireless communication system, by assigning at least one specific frequency, called hand-off frequency, to one or more base station called as hand-off base station (HBS) located within the service area, for handing off subscriber stations between at least two cells, wherein the said hand-off frequency is not used by the base station of the said two cells for serving subscriber stations and wherein, hand-off is triggered when received signal strength at serving base station, hand-off base station or at subscriber station is below acceptable value and assigning frequencies, other than the hand-off frequency, to the base stations called as serving base stations (SBS) located within the cells of the service area, for serving the subscriber stations within the cell. The method further comprising of regulating the signal transmission strength of the serving base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Tejas Networks Limited
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar. M
  • Publication number: 20140155122
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a first amplifier configured to amplify an input signal; a second amplifier configured to amplify the input signal when an input level of the input signal is equal to or larger than a given level; an impedance converter configure to switch an load impedance of the first amplifier and output a composite output of an output from the first amplifier and an output from the second amplifier; an impedance controller section configured to control a switching of the load impedance of the first amplifier based on a bandwidth of the input signal; a distortion compensation section configured to perform distortion compensation of the input signal and supply a compensated input signal to the first amplifier and the second amplifier; and a filter section configured to limit a band of a signal output from the impedance converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yousuke OKAZAKI, Hiroaki MAEDA, Hirotake HONDA, Yoshinobu SHIZAWA, Hiroyuki OGAWA, Yasuhiro OKAWA
  • Publication number: 20140155044
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed to restrict access services to a communication device. The services may be restricted based upon hardware characteristics, geographic characteristics, user specifications of the communication device and/or specified rules. The method and apparatus may restrict its service to only specific applications suitable for the environment and the time. Upon a request for a service that is now restricted, the method and apparatus may notify an end user that the service was requested. Further, the method and apparatus may notify an originator of the request that the service is not available and may ask for a short message to be delivered to the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rafael CARMON, Alon Shechter
  • Patent number: 8744427
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio base station (12) for communicating with a user equipment (10) over a channel structured in transmission time intervals in a radio communications network. The radio base station (12) identifies an interference situation, associated with a transmission time interval, in the cell (15) from a set of interference situations. The radio base station (12) selects a correction value associated with the identified interference situation. Furthermore, the radio base station (12) determines a radio transmission parameter using the correction value; and transmits information, to the user equipment (10), based on the radio transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 8743821
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of mobile station devices which radio-communicate with the base station device. The base station device allocates random access signal identifiers for identifying random access signals to the mobile station devices and decides an allocation period for each of the random access signal identifiers used by the mobile base stations. During the allocation period, each of the mobile station devices transmits a random access signal corresponding to the allocated random access signal identifier. Thus, it is possible to suppress a delay until the random access procedure using a dedicated preamble is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Shohei Yamada, Yasuyuki Kato, Yasuo Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8744470
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system for optimizing delivery of data to a mobile device over a network. According to one embodiment, the invention includes a communication stack, such as a TCP/IP stack, which includes an application protocol interface (API) between an application layer and a transport layer. According to this embodiment, the method includes receiving delivery optimization information; determining the priority of the data using the delivery optimization information; providing the priority of the data to a physical layer in the communication stack; and delivering the data to the mobile device based on the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Weinrib, Purva Rajkotia
  • Publication number: 20140148185
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate with another base station using a radio resource, wherein the radio resource is allocated to the base station to serve communication devices located in a radio cell operated by the base station. A method of operating a base station is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Anh Tuan Hoang, Haiguang Wang, Wai Leong Yeow, Jaya Shankar S/O Pathmasuntharam, Chee Ming Joseph Teo, Shoukang Zheng
  • Publication number: 20140148186
    Abstract: The present invention provide a method for determining a timing advance TA, and a method and a device for transmitting information, including: receiving downlink signal characteristic information of each transceiver node in a first transceiver node set in a cell accessed by a terminal, where the first transceiver node set includes one or more transceiver nodes; detecting, according to the downlink signal characteristic information of each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set, time at which a downlink signal transmitted by each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set arrives at the terminal; and determining, according to the time at which the downlink signal transmitted by each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set arrives at the terminal, a timing advance TA for transmitting an uplink signal to each transceiver node in the first transceiver node set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyu ZHOU, Bingyu QU
  • Patent number: 8738095
    Abstract: A method for opearation of femto base station (BS) is provided. The method includes: transmitting the first low duty operation (LDO) pattern information, which includes length information of an available interval (AI) where the femto BS is activated and length information of an unavailable interval (UAI) where the femto BS is inactivated, to user equipment (UE) and operating based on the first LDO pattern where the first LDO cycle, a sequence of the AI and the UAI, is repeatedly arranged. The first LDO pattern information further including a superframe offset as information for leading a start point of the first LDO cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Eunkyung Kim, Jae Sun Cha, Soojung Jung, JuHee Kim, Kwang Jae Lim, Hyun Lee, Won-Ik Kim, Sung Cheol Chang, Chul Sik Yoon, Namgi Kim
  • Patent number: 8738084
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cellular basestation, and in particular to a basestation for a cellular communications network, that can conveniently be used to provide a cellular service, for example within a home or office.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Ubiquisys Limited
    Inventors: Peter Keevill, William Franks, Richard Byrne, Andrea Giustina
  • Patent number: 8737190
    Abstract: A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless station including a transceiver with multiple antennas, is provided. In one implementation, the wireless station performs multiple modulation communication by multiplexing different signal carrier modulation formats by antenna cross polarization multiplexing, including mapping the modulation formats to multiple antenna cross polarization branches. Communication power is allocated for each polarization branch by selectively distributing power to each of the polarized antennas based on at least one of: application data rate requirements, communication link quality indication (LQI) and delay spread of cross polarized channels. Data is transmitted utilizing the modulation formats simultaneously at the same frequency over multiple cross polarized antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Khiong Yong, Pengfei Xia, Chiu Ngo
  • Patent number: 8738085
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating feedback information in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication system are presented. In one aspect of the method and system, a beamformer station may communicate a feedback information request to a plurality of beamformee stations. The feedback information request may request feedback data for a plurality of RF channel bands. The RF channel bands may form a multichannel. The beamformer may subsequently transmit a plurality of signals utilizing the RF channel bands within the multichannel. Each of the beamformees may receive the plurality of subsequently transmitted signals. A beamformee may generate the requested feedback data for each RF channel band within the multichannel. The beamformee may generate a beamforming report, which comprises the feedback data, which is generated across the plurality of RF channel bands in the multichannel. The beamformee may transmit the beamforming report to the beamformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Joonsuk Kim, Sirikiat Lek Ariyavisitakul
  • Patent number: 8738072
    Abstract: One feature discloses a method operational at a multimedia mobile call transfer device, the method comprising: receiving a first video data associated with a multimedia call from a mobile device; receiving a first audio data associated with the multimedia call from the mobile device; processing the received first video data and the received first audio data; transmitting the processed first video data to a multimedia device for display on the multimedia device; and transmitting the processed first audio data to the multimedia device for play on speakers of the multimedia device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Razmig Hagop Messerian
  • Patent number: 8731616
    Abstract: The present disclosure teaches an active antenna array for a mobile communications network. The active antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements, at least one first splitter, at least one amplifier and at least one first coupler. The first splitter forwards at least one of at least one individual first protocol receive signal and at least one individual second protocol receive signal in a receive direction from an individual one of the plurality of antenna elements. The at least one amplifier amplifies at least one of the individual first protocol receive signal and the individual second protocol receive signal. The at least one first coupler is located in the receive direction downstream of the at least one amplifier and is adapted to forward the at least one individual second protocol receive signal to a second protocol receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kathrein -Werke KG
    Inventors: Peter Kenington, Martin Weckerle, Dirk Neumann
  • Patent number: 8731601
    Abstract: An energy saving (ES) management method for a base station includes: An integration reference point manager (IRPManager) initiates an ES enable/disable procedure or an ES activation/resumption procedure to an integration reference point agent (IRPAgent), where the ES enable/disable procedure is used to allow or prohibit an ES operation on the base station or a cell, and the ES activation/resumption procedure is used to cause the base station or the cell to go into or go out of an ES state. The technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present invention enable operators to perform unified management on an ES procedure for a base station at a base station level or a cell level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haitao Xia
  • Patent number: 8731574
    Abstract: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a portable base station requests assignment of a portion of a code space from a remotely located control station. The assignment is based upon the location of the portable base station. The portable base station is also capable of transmitting an identification signal using the assigned code space portion to uniquely identify the portable base station to one or more access terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Airvana LP
    Inventors: Shi Baw Ch'ng, Amit Mate, Satish Ananthaiyer, Vedat Eyuboglu
  • Patent number: 8730877
    Abstract: In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system that utilizes interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA, multiple transmitters may transmit their pilots using time division multiplexing (TDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), interleaved frequency division multiplexing (IFDM), or localized frequency division multiplexing (LFDM). The pilots from these transmitters are then orthogonal to one another. A receiver performs the complementary demultiplexing for the pilots sent by the transmitters. The receiver may derive a channel estimate for each transmitter using an MMSE technique or a least-squares technique. The receiver may receive overlapping data transmissions sent on the same time-frequency block by the multiple transmitters and may perform receiver spatial processing with spatial filter matrices to separate these data transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Palanki, Aamod Khandekar, Arak Sutivong
  • Patent number: 8731497
    Abstract: Method and arrangement in a first carrier controller, associated with a network node. The method aims at providing distributed power management of a plurality of power amplifiers within a sector. The first carrier controller, the network node and the power amplifiers are comprised within a communication system. Also, at least one further carrier controller is comprised within the communication system. The first carrier controller is arranged for scheduling power allocation at each power amplifier of the radio frequency power estimated to be used by at least one carrier controlled by the first carrier controller. The method comprises allocating the estimated power usage to be used by the at least one carrier controlled by the first carrier controller during a predetermined time frame on one or more power amplifiers within the same sector. The allocation is based on a priority value of each carrier, dedicated to that sector or to a power amplifier within that sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Backman, Jacob Osterling
  • Publication number: 20140135021
    Abstract: According to some wireless network standards the size of a neighbor cell list is restricted to a maximum size. The limited size of a neighbor cell list may not reflect the realities of a wireless network deployment, especially for deployments including numerous femto cells clustered in close proximity. Accordingly, as the concentration of macro cells and/or femto cells in an area increases, there lies a challenge to identify and communicate neighbor lists to user devices that reflect the arrangement of a particular portion of the deployment and the needs of the user devices. Various systems, methods and apparatus described herein are configured to provide a user device or a group of user devices a neighbor cell list that includes neighbor cell identifiers chosen from a candidate list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Peter Hans Rauber, Sanjiv Nanda, Damanjit Singh, Jen M. Chen, Farhad Meshkati
  • Publication number: 20140135018
    Abstract: A method, User Equipment (UE), and first base station serving a first cell for performing an access request by the UE for operatively connecting the UE to a second cell. The UE obtains radio quality parameters indicating quality of radio reception between the UE and the first and second cells. Based on the obtained radio quality parameters, it is determined whether the UE is in a link imbalance zone where the UE has an option to be connected to both the first cell and the second cell. If so, the UE sends access request information, to the first base station and indicates availability of the UE to be redirected to the second cell. The first base station may redirect the UE to the second cell when a load of the first cell meets pre-defined load criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Tomas Hedberg, Lars Lindbom, Tomas Nylander, Jari Vikberg
  • Publication number: 20140135067
    Abstract: A wireless base station device and a communication system including the wireless base station device are provided in the present invention, The wireless base station device comprises a baseband processing unit, wherein the baseband processing unit comprises a PCIE switch and a graphics processing unit for baseband processing which comprises a PCIE interface to interconnect with the PCIE switch. The wireless base station device and the communication system including the wireless base station device provided by the present invention have lower costs, better performances and shorter time-to-markets, and are easy to be upgraded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiajia Liu
  • Publication number: 20140135026
    Abstract: A base station includes an antenna, a sending unit, a monitoring unit, and a controlling unit. The antenna is configured to be operated corresponding to a communication area of the base station, the antenna being capable of controlling a tilt angle, the tilt angle being an angle made by a vertical direction and a direction of a main beam of the antenna. The sending unit is configured to send a command corresponding to adjustment of timing of sending a signal sent from a mobile station. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor the number of mobile stations present in the communication area by using the command. The controlling unit is configured to reduce the tilt angle when the number of mobile stations exceeds an upper limit allowed to be contained in the communication area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiji HAMADA, Kazuya KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8725091
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to techniques of controlling a transmitter. In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a maximum level of signal distortion acceptable for a transmission from a transmitter may be determined based on information of operating characteristics of the transmitter and/or the environment in which the transmission is to be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Nentwig, Ilkka Urvas
  • Patent number: 8724597
    Abstract: A wireless communication system can include at least two base stations coupled with a network, the two base stations transmitting pilot signals that are used to make a soft handoff decision for a communication device based on base station related information received from the communication device, the base station related information being assembled within the communication device by continuously tracking selected base station pilot signals received by the communication device, the selected base station pilot signals sometimes including one or more pilot signals that are not assigned to rake fingers associated with a receiver coupled with the communication device, and at least one of the base stations delivering soft handoff information to the communication device after the soft handoff decision has been made by the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimon Moshavi, Daniel Yellin, Yoni Perets, Tsofnat Hagin-Metzer
  • Patent number: 8725062
    Abstract: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefore includes a wireless access point that is operable to receive media content for subsequent delivery to at least one wireless mobile terminal and to store such media content until a specified delivery time or such media content is requested. The wireless access point is operable to generate transmissions of the media content at an increased power level either directly through attached point-to-point communications that span a super service area that overlaps service areas of other wireless access points or by way of broadcast transmissions at an increased power level that overlap the service areas of other wireless access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Bennett, Jeyhan Karaoguz
  • Patent number: 8725183
    Abstract: A base station management method according to the present invention is a method for managing an operation mode of a base station, and includes determining whether a terminal exists in a cell managed by the base station and operating in a low duty operation mode (LDM) when no terminal exists in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electroncs Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Won-Ik Kim, Jae Sun Cha, Sung Cheol Chang, Kwang Jae Lim, Hyun-Jae Kim, Sung Kyung Kim, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Publication number: 20140128090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sharing a femtocell network, and more specifically, to a method and device for sharing a mobile femtocell network. The method relates to a method in a mobile femtocell base station, and includes the steps of: receiving information about a service level of a neighboring mobile femtocell in the mobile femtocell base station; determining the service level of the neighboring mobile femtocell based on the information; and transmitting a transmission power control request about the neighboring mobile femtocell to a femtocell network controller to reduce interference of the neighboring mobile femtocell according to the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaewon Lim
  • Patent number: 8718543
    Abstract: A mobile communication system employs moving base stations moving in the direction of flow of traffic moving along a roadway. The moving base station communicates with fixed radio ports connected to a gateway office. A plurality of moving base stations are spaced apart on a closed loop and move with the flow of traffic along one roadway on one leg of the loop and with a flow of traffic on another roadway in another leg of the loop. The moving base stations communicate with a plurality of fixed radio ports connected by a signal transmission link to a gateway office which, in turn, is connected to the wire line network. The moving base stations are each provided with a pair of directional antennas with one antenna directed toward the flow of traffic and another antenna directed to the fixed radio ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Carucel Investments, L.P.
    Inventor: Charles D. Gavrilovich
  • Patent number: 8718478
    Abstract: A radio-over-fiber (RoF) hybrid wired/wireless transponder is disclosed that is configured to provide both wireless and wired communication between a hybrid head-end and one or more client devices. The hybrid transponder includes optical-to-electrical (O/E) and electrical-to-optical (E/O) conversion capability and is configured to frequency multiplex/demultiplex electrical “wired” signals and electrical “wireless” signals. The electrical wireless signals are wirelessly communicated to the client device(s) via a multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system within a cellular coverage area. The electrical wired signals are communicated to the client device(s) via a wireline cable that plugs into a wireline cable port on the transponder. The hybrid RoF system includes a hybrid head-end capable of transmitting and receiving wired and wireless optical signals, and an optical fiber cable that is optically coupled to the hybrid head-end and to at least one hybrid transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Dean Michael Thelen, Jacob George, Luis Alberto Zenteno, Michael Sauer, Martyn N. Easton
  • Patent number: 8718712
    Abstract: A base station configuration design support system for a mobile communication system includes an estimation unit that estimates a radio wave propagation characteristic with respect to a large number of station position candidate points, with a spot at which there is a need to improve radio wave quality (countermeasure target spot) as a transmitting point, and an extraction unit extracts an improvable station position candidate point where radio wave quality at the countermeasure target spot can be improved, from among a plurality of station position candidate points, in response to an estimation result obtained by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Motoyoshi
  • Patent number: 8718665
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmitting data in a coordinated multi-cell wireless communication system is provided. A base station receives information about beam-forming vectors, aligned with a channel to a user equipment placed in a neighbor cell, and about nulling beam-forming vectors for the channel to the user equipment from the neighbor cell, determines a transmission beam-forming vector based on the information, and transmits data to the user equipment using the transmission beam-forming vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung Tae Kim, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8718243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to telecommunications, and in particular, to systems and processes for processing telephone calls and providing telephony services. In one embodiment, a call processing system, compromises a first telephony interface configured to receive a call from a caller, a storage device configured to store a greeting, and a call answering system. The call answering system is configured to play the greeting in response to receiving the call, record a voice message from the caller, determine when the caller has completed recording the voice message, after determining that the caller has completed recording the voice message, play a prompt regarding the caller becoming a subscriber to call services provided by the call processing system, receive from the caller information used to establish a call services account, and establish a call services account for the caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Callwave Communications, LLC
    Inventors: David Trandal, Robert Duva, Robert F. Smith, John R. Day
  • Publication number: 20140120911
    Abstract: At the time of registration of a base station, the base station reports to a gateway device list information regarding core networks that are to be connected. At the time of call origination from a user terminal, the base station reports to the gateway device, by means of a message of protocol for termination between a base station and a gateway, network identification information that indicates core networks that are to be connected to the user terminal The gateway device transfers a control message from the user terminal to the core networks indicated by the network identification information that was reported. At the time of call connection to the user terminal, the gateway device selects the base station to which paging from the core network is to be transmitted on the basis of the list information reported from the base station at the time of registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Kozuka, Yoshio Ueda