A timing system for time synchronization between a time server and a time client over a packet network. The timing system includes a time server for generating current timestamp information and a time client having a phase-locked loop driven client clock counter. The time client periodically exchanges time transfer ...

The present invention relates to an RF antenna structure that includes a planar structure and a loading plate, such that the planar structure is mounted between a ground plane and the loading plate to form an RF antenna. The loading plate may be about parallel to the ground plane and the planar structure may be abou...

A method of setting up a call group for participation in a group call by a plurality of mobile devices in a mobile telecommunications network, the mobile telecommunications network comprising a serving node operable to transceive data to and from the mobile telecommunications devices, the method comprising: receivin...

Ethernet OAM MEPs are automatically configured in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A node operating in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network receives a Link State PDU (LSP) containing a TLV having a MEP associated with the Ethernet MAC node ID of a second node in the link state protoc...

To advertise capabilities of a wireless access point, the wireless access point communicates, to a mobile station, messages at plural levels of detail to advertise that the wireless access point supports a plurality of service networks. The messages at the plural levels of detail include a first message indica...

The present application describes a radio frequency band reject filter including an input port, an output port, a plurality of acoustic resonators and an inductor for matching the impedance of the plurality of acoustic resonators. The inductor is positioned within the band reject filter in respect of the plurality o...

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A system for providing wireless communication is provided. The system comprises a radio transceiver comprising a plurality of configurable receivers and transmitters and a programmable processor, wherein the programmable processor is operable to configure at least some of the plurality of receivers and transmitters ...

To perform a handover of a mobile station from a source base station to a target base station, the source base station determines a delay of a connection between the source base station and the target base station. The source base station computes an action time taking into account the determined delay, the action...

A wireless communications device includes an antenna, a multi-port path selection structure having an antenna port connected to the antenna, and plural ports connected to respective one or more receive and transmit paths of the wireless communications device. The multi-port path selection structure has a transmit ba...

A method selects a path for forwarding a data packet in a wireless communication system. A system capacity versus delay impact curve is calculated for a direct path to mobile station. The direct path has a capacity cost based on communication quality of a direct link between a base station and the mobile station. Th...

A mobile tag tracking system for providing mobile security monitoring, the system including: a communications facility; a communications network coupled to the communications facility, and a mobile tag coupled to an item to be monitored, the mobile tag having a processor having a memory and for controlling op...

Middleware is provided as a control plane for WiMAX control messaging. Each ASN in a WiMAX system is associated with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server. A plurality of Functional Entities (FEs) are distributed across the ASNs, wherein each FE (or a group of FEs) associated with a SIP agent. Each FE is operab...

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an enhanced multimedia Broadcast multicast Service (MBMS) in a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, a number of base stations In a MBMS zone, or broadcast region, accommodate both Spatial Multiplexing (SM) enabled user elements and non-SM enabled user eleme...

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Disclosed is a method of transitioning from a facsimile session to a voice session during a call between a wireless user and a facsimile machine. The method comprises sending a procedure interrupt request, sending a procedure interrupt response, sending a procedure interrupt confirmation, negotiating to a voice serv...

A method and apparatus for allocating time slots in a communications network, comprising a headend, a plurality of outstations, and a shared medium connecting each outstation to the headend. The method involves scheduling timeslots for each outstation responsive to the measures of distance of each outstation fro...

The present invention relates to an improved wireless communications system capable of efficiently transmitting smaller-sized data packets (e.g. 10 to 20 byte length) that are frequently delivered (e.g. every 10 to 20 msec.) to mobile nodes on the communications system, such as voice communications. Because an uncom...

1. A method of transferring data from a first base station to a second base station in a mobile telephone network operating according to a predetermined standard, the method comprising sending the data from the first base station to a data receiver of a data transfer node via a first wireless communications channel...

A call conferencing apparatus (106), method (300), and computer program detect one or more events that are related to a conference call. The apparatus (106), method (300), and computer program then send one or more instant messages to one or more participants associated with the conference call. The one or more ev...

The present application provides methods, devices and transmitters that mitigate increases in peak to average power ratio (PAPR) from transmission diversity in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) modulated uplink. A PAPR preserving precode matrix hopping method that utilizes cyclic shift de...

A system receives, from a mobile station, a connection request that specifies a particular application type. In response to determining that the connection request is to be denied, the system sends a response denying the connection request to the mobile station, where the response includes a delay time that is appli...

One or more relay stations may be employed along a wireless communication access path between an ingress station and an egress station. A logical communication tunnel is established between the ingress and egress stations through any number of intermediate relay stations to handle session flows of PDUs. As PDUs arri...

One or more relay stations may be employed along a wireless communication access path between an ingress station and an egress station. A logical communication tunnel is established between the ingress and egress stations through any number of intermediate relay stations to handle session flows of PDUs. As PDUs arri...

A method comprising: for a communication link between a base station and at least one relay station with which the base station is communicating,allocating a first frequency sub-band; for a communication link between the base station and a first subset of one or more mobile stations with which the base station i...

The present invention relates to a multi-touch display system that supports both multi-touch human input as well as input from a digital pen. The display system has a display panel that is configured to allow human touches along a front surface to be detected and tracked. The display panel also includes a location p...

A method is provided lor filtering unwanted rackets in a communication system. The communication system includes a first network, a wireless network and at least one wireless communication device, An instruction to add an entry to a blocked list is received front a specific wireless device. The entry includes block...

The present invention relates to a multi-touch display system that supports both multi-touch human input as well as input from a digital pen. The display system has a display panel that is configured to allow human touches along a front surface to be detected and tracked. The display panel also includes a location p...

While a mobile station is in a reduced power state, the mobile station determines whether the mobile station has up-to-date neighbor cell information. In response to determining that the mobile station does not have up-to-date neighbor cell information, the mobile station transitions from the reduced power state to ...

A wireless receiver receives reference signals over a wireless link. The wireless receiver calculates a selection indication based on the received reference signals, and the wireless receiver selects from among plural channel estimation techniques based on the selection indication, where the selected channel estimat...

A method and system for wireless communication with a mobile device. A first wireless communication network, such as a WiMax or cellular-based network, has a first maximum wireless speed. A second wireless communication network, such as a near-photonic speed gigabit link ("GiLink") network, has a second maximum wire...

1. A method of allocating radio resource within a frame structure in a cellular wireless network, the network comprising a plurality of base stations and a plurality of relay stations, the frame structure comprsing a plurality of first radio resource elements for the communication of control data, the me...

Systems and methods are disclosed that include determining a local node configuration for a local network node. The local network node configuration can include a local range and a local location. In addition, these systems and methods can include receiving a remote network node configuration for a remote network no...

A method for controlling establishment of a communication channel between a service provider terminal of a contact centre and a service request terminal is disclosed. The method comprises responding to receipt of a request to establish the communication channel by: a) determining whether a licence for a media type a...

A method for providing access to a video portion of a voice and video (VAV) call includes receiving a VAV call that originated from a device of a first user. The VAV call includes a voice portion and a video portion. The voice portion of the VAV call is transmitted to a voicemail associated with a voice terminal of ...

A base station sends a request for information relating to radio access technology capabilities of a mobile station. The base station receives a message containing information relating to radio access technology capabilities of the mobile station, where the message is responsive to the request, and the information c...

A system for scheduling data for transmission in a communication network includes a credit distributor and a transmit selector. The communication network includes a plvirality of children. The transmit selector is communicatively coupled to the credit distributor. The credit distributor operates to grant credits to ...

FGA system and method for transitioning connectivity of a mobile node between mobility access gateways on a communication system using an inter-MAG tunneling protocols for a fast handoff. The protocols can use pre-configured or dynamic protocols on the IP-Layer or another layer on the protocol stack. In a hi-direct...

An OAM link trace message is sent from a source node to a target node in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. The link trace message using an 802.lag format except, as a destination address, it uses either the unicast Ethernet MAC node ID of the target node, or the multicast destination address of the ...

In general, to provide acknowledgment information by a first wireless device, the first wireless device sends repeated instances of acknowledgment information in respective first and second frame structures, in response to receipt of first information from a second wireless device. In addition, the first wireless de...

A method and system adaptively reduce a peak-to-average power ratio in a communication system. Energy is clipped from at least one peak of a modulated signal. The modulated signal includes a plurality of sub-carriers. At least one data sub-carrier is adaptively selected for peak-to-average power ratio reduction use ...

To perform wireless communications in a wireless network, at least two spatial beams are formed within a cell segment, where the at least wo spatial beams are associated with different power levels. The at least two spatial beams are swept across the cell segment according to a sweep pattern. In some implementatio...

Methods, base stations and access terminals for uplink signalling are provided. Resource request channel characteristics such as location in time-frequency, sequence, time slot, are assigned to each access terminal to distinguish their resource requests from the resource requests of other access terminals. Access te...

A method ensures that multicast packets follow the same loop-free path followed by unicast packets in a packet communication network. The communication network includes at least one first area interconnected through at least one area border node ("ABN") to a second area. Each ABN has a first level port connected to...

A method and system for identifying cell clusters within a coordinated multiple point wireless transmission network in order to reduce scheduling complexity while optimizing throughout and performance. The network includes a total number of cells served by corresponding base stations. The BSC divides the entire netw...

To perform rank adaptation for a mobile station in a wireless network, it is determined whether the mobile station is fast moving In response to determining that the mobile station is fast moving, an open loop multi-antenna mode is selected to perform wireless communication between the mobile station and a ba...

ABSTRACT SERVICE INSTANCE APPLIED TO MPLS NETWORKS Domain-wide unique node identifiers and domain-wide unique service identifiers are distributed within a MPLS domain using routing system LSAs. Nodes on the MPLS network compute shortest path trees for each destination and install unicast forwarding state based on ...

Network and performance monitoring in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A first node receives a network layer monitoring command from a network layer monitoring requestor. The monitoring command is directed to a second node. The first node resolves the network layer monitoring command into one or mo...

A wireless radio communication system for communicating packet transmissions from a base station to a mobile unit, comprising: a relay station positioned between the base station and the mobile unit, said relay station having a relaying function in a multihop packet transmission from the base station to the mobile ...

A mobile tag tracking system for providing mobile security monitoring is provided. The system includes a communications facility, a communications network coupled to the communications facility, and a mobile tag. The mobile tag is coupled to an item to be monitored. The mobile tag has a processor having a memory and...

A method of multicast route computation in a Link state protocol controlled network, (he method comprising steps of: computing a spanning tree from a first node to even" other node in the network using a known shortest path tree algorithm: dividing the network into partitions, each partition encompassing an i...

A method of digitally up-converting a discrete-time baseband signal to a desired frequency comprising: selecting a fixed effective sampling rate Fs for a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) used in up-converting the discrete-time baseband signal; performing complex tuning on the discrete-time baseband signal to produc...

An uplink power control scheme for a wireless communication system is provided. In general, a subscribing station is located within a serving sector of a cell served by a base station in a wireless communication network. In one  embodiment, the subscribing station obtains interference parameters for one or more neig...

Joint uplink processing by plural base stations includes sending, by a serving base station, a request for uplink re-sources of a second base station for receiving uplink data of a mobile station. The serving base station receives first uplink data from the mobile station, and the serving base station further receiv...

In general, according to an embodiment, a wireless transmitter includes a plurality of coding and modulation modules to apply corresponding coding and   modulation algorithms to input information blocks. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoder applies DFT processing to outputs of the coding and modulation module...

A method for registration of a mobile node on a foreign network during a hand-off transition comprising the steps of: receiving a pre-handoff registration request message at a local mobility anchor after a mobile node has initiated a connection to said foreign network, said pre-handoff registration request message ...

The present invention proposes an LTE eNodeB receiver channel estimation technique that is referred to as reduced complexity minimum mean squared error (MMSE) technique for channel estimation. From the invention"s assumptions, esti mations and modified calculations, the present in vention generates precise channel e...

1. In a network comprising a first autonomous domain connected to a Provider Ethernet domain via at least a border gateway (BGs) in the first autonomous domain, at least the second domain including an Access Gateway (AG) for hosting a remote customer site in the second domain, a method of enabling extension of a ne...

Methods and systems are described that are suitable for channelization, m particular, but not limited to, the IEEE 80216. m telecommunications standard. For a time-frequency resource, physical sub-carriers for each of one or more zones in the time-frequency re-source are assigned to one or more zones having a respec...

A system includes a first base station of a first vendor configuration and a second base station of a second vendor configuration. A link is between the first and second base stations. The first base station is configured to receive at least one interference indicator message from the second base station, and schedu...

A server process renders instances of a 3D virtual environment as video streams that may then be viewed on devices not sufficiently powerful to implement the rendering process natively or which do not have native rendering software installed. The server process is broken down into two steps: 3D rendering and video e...

A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless communication network. The wireless communication network has a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal arranged in virtual multiple input, multiple output ("V-MIMO") communication with a base station. A first wireless communication uplink chann...

A collaboration agent for facilitating real-time communications on behalf of a user. The collaboration agent includes a conference bridge that anchors calls to the conference bridge. The collaboration agent uses contextual information associated with the user to manage the real-time communications. The collaboration...

To register a mobile device located in a first network with a packet-switched services network, a registration request is received from an aggregation device in the first network. The registration request contains an identifier of the aggregation device and identification information of the mobile device, where the ...

A method of managing a synchronization identifier in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: embedding a first synchronization identifier in a release message, the first synchronization identifier including current configuration status information and additional information that implements a network...

A method and system for selectively replicating data from a primary database associated with a primary server to a secondary database associated with a secondary server. The secondary server determines that a replication task using a first update command has modified the primary database. The secondary server determ...

A method in a system node, the system node in communication with a plurality of base stations each having an internal clock, the method comprising: providing time information to, and receiving time information from, each of the plurality of base stations; generating a system time reference based on at least some o...

As an advertisement is presented to the user via a user terminal, the user terminal may generate voting information in response to a specific user input that bears on the user's interest in the advertisement or based on actions or behaviors of the user in association with the advertisement being presented. When spec...

A resilient virtual Ethernet ring has nodes interconnected by working and protection paths. If a span fails, the two nodes immediately on either side of the failure are cross-connected to fold the ring. Working-path traffic is cross-connected onto the protection path at the first of the two nodes and is then cross-c...

The present invention presents a method, arrangement and computer program product for clocking exploiting the relative behavior of clocks of individual receiving stations as well as a corresponding modeling to derive a time difference of arrival of a signal from a user device which can be used to correct the time di...

A transmit chain comprises a correction network (la) for correcting a frequency dependent quadrature error between in-phase and quadrature signal paths for the transmission of an input signal. The correction network has an in- phase input port, a quadrature input port, an in-phase output port and a quadrature output...

Baseband recovery in wireless networks, base transceiver stations, and wireless networking devices may be implemented to minimize the number of timing symbols while at the same time enabling wireless devices to use a relatively low per-symbol sampling rate, so that minimal processing is required to implement the tim...

A method and system provide a user device with secure access to an enterprise application in an enterprise network through VPN. The enterprise application is accessed from a user device such that it sends and receives data packets through the VPN client. For this, a request to send packets, originating from the user...

Nodes on a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network implement a link state routing protocol such as IS-IS. Nodes assign an IP address or I-SID value per VRF and then advertise the IP addresses or I-SID values in IS-IS LSAs. When a packet is to be forwarded on the VPN, the ingress node identifies the VRF for t...

When a MPLS Virtual Forwarding Entity (VFE) on a Link State Protocol Controlled Ethernet Network learns a forwarding equivalency class (FEC) to label binding from an attached MPLS- LER, it will determine an associated MAC address for the FEC, and advertise the FEC/label binding along with the MAC address. Nodes in t...

Nodes on an Ethernet network run a link state protocol on the control plane and install shortest path forwarding state into their FIBs to allow packets to follow shortest paths through the network without requiring MAC header replacement at each hop through the network. When a node learns an IP address, it will inse...

A consistent tie-breaking decision between equal-cost shortest (lowest cost) paths is achieved by comparing an ordered set of node identifiers for each of a plurality of end-to-end paths. Alternatively, the same results can be achieved, on-the-fly, as a shortest path tree is constructed, by making a selection of a...

An Ethernet network comprises nodes which support a plurality of different forwarding modes. A range of VLAN Identifiers (VIDs) are allocated to each of the forwarding modes. Connections are configured between a source node and a destination node of the network using different forwarding modes. Packets carrying data...

Systems and methods for providing digital content are disclosed through a universal medial connection API (206) , which include registering an application to be used during a session, loading policies to be used during the session, and identifying hardware features to be used during the session. These systems and me...

The present invention discloses a node (207, 217) for achieving co-existence of single radio voice call continuity, SR-VCC, solutions in a communication system between a source cell of a first radio access network that supports packet switched voice and a target cell of a second radio access network that supports at...

An apparatus for communication using a wireless communication network includes an interleaver and a transceiver. The interleaver co-exists with a localized transmission arrangement if the localized transmission arrangement is present and  interleaves data packets for a distributed transmission arrangement by mapping...

A method and apparatus for estimating location of wireless stations in a wireless communication network are provided. An estimation of a bearing angle of a wireless station from a reference point of a multi-beam antenna pattern is made based on a plurality of beaming angles of a multi-beam antenna pattern and a rece...

A method and apparatus for adjusting a symbol decision threshold at a receiver in a communication network enables the receiver to be adapted to more correctly receive symbols as transmitted by a transmitter. In one embodiment a received bit imbalance is detected by a receiver prior to error correction and after erro...

A mobile station that is initially attached to a first type of wireless access network is involved in a packet-switched emergency call Upon detection of transitioning of the mobile station, a message is sent indicating transitioning of the mobile station from the first type wireless access network to the second ty...

An MME keeps track of the network tracking mobility characteristic by periodically updating a TA transition probability matrix, which is derived from a global table that maintains data of UE movement in the network by noting the current TA and most recently known previous TA of each EU for every TAU event and paging...

A method increases spectral efficiency in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one mobile station and is capable of transmitting messages encoded according to a plurality of available modulation coding schemes ("MCS s"). Each available MCS includes a modulation scheme and an effective c...

A contact center receives an image and processes the image to identify useful information.  From this information, a routing parameter is obtained for use in 5   routing a contact relating to that image to an agent or other resource of the contact center. In this way a received image can be employed to route a conta...

A wireless access terminal, system and method for the wireless access terminal to synchronize to system times in a wireless communication system. A first timing hierarchy in a first wireless communication network is used to operate the wireless access terminal. The first wireless communication network has a first ra...

A method for improving transmission capacity on a communication system that simultaneously transmits signals between a transmitter and at least two receivers wherein the transmitted signals for the at least two receivers interfere with each other, the method comprising: acquiring information about the channel condi...

A base station communicates, with a mobile station, data associated with a packet-switched session in which the mobile station is involved. In response to a handover request from the mobile station, the base station accesses information provisioned for the mobile station to determine whether the mobile station is ...

Neighbor cell hearability can be improved by including an additional reference signal that can be detected at a low sensitivity and a low signal-to-noise ratio, by introducing non-unity frequency reuse for the signals used for a time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement, e.g., orthogonality of signals transmitte...

A method for maintaining connectivity between user equipment and multiple PDN connections during an idle mode handover from a source network operating under the 3 GPP communications protocol to a target network operating under a non- 3 GPP communications protocol, comprising the steps of: receiving a connection r...

A system and method of enabling a mobile device to communicate with a local IP network host and an external IP network host using a femto cellular access point on a femto cellular access network. A local gateway is coupled to the femto cellular access network for receiving data packets transmitted on the femto cellu...

A mobile switching center platform includes a circuit-switched switch to establish circuit-switched communications sessions on behalf of at least one wireless terminal. The mobile switching platform further includes interfaces having functionalities defined by an architecture that provides packet-switched multime...

The present invention solves these problems with a new proxy binding update request and proxy binding acknowledgement messages having new indicators and identification information. Namely, the home agent/local mobility anchor will exchange proxy binding update messages and proxy binding acknowledge messages that inc...

Coefficients of a pre-distorter are determined for correction of distortion of a signal amplified by a radio frequency amplifier by sampling the signal at the input to the pre-distorter to generate a plurality of input samples and sampling the signal at the output of the amplifier to generate a plurality of output s...

A method for providing identification and addressing information for one or more packet gateways that each support a different type of service through a coupled packet data network, comprising the steps of; receiving a connection request message at a serving gateway server from a user . equipment, said connection r...

To effectively and efficiently provide control information, a broadcast pointer channel (BPCH) may be used to identify the type and perhaps relative location of control information that is being provided in a given frame structure, such as a sub-frame, frame, or super frame. A sub-frame (or like framing entity, such...

A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output ("V-MIMO") in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one ...

A method and system provide a plurality of femto cells that are deployed within a macro cell of cellular network. The femto cells improve cellular service inside structures, such as residential and commercial structures. Femto base stations convert signals between an airlink-interface and core network to enable data...

A protected light source for generating seed light for at least two wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM-PONs), the protected light source comprising: an optical coupler having N input ports and M output ports, where N and M are integers equal to or greater than 2, each output port being ...

A method for selecting a best beam for transmission from an access node to a receiver on a communication system that has at least two spatial beams providing coverage in a cell sector, the method comprising: transmitting a pilot channel indicator signal periodically from an access node over one or more spatial beam...

In a communications system, a mobile station receives, from a base station, a downlink control message associated with an indication that particular control information is to be transmitted by the mobile station on an uplink traffic channel on a repeated basis. In response to receiving the downlink control message...

To report feedback information regarding a wireless channel, a mobile station determines whether a predefined condition is satisfied. In response to determining that the predefined condition is satisfied, feedback information regarding an individual one of plural subbands of the wireless channel is included ...

A system and method are provided for enabling a mobile device to establish a local IP access on a packet data network connection on a femto cellular access network. A local server gateway and a macro server gateway are coupled to the femto cellular access network. A mobility management entity is coupled to the femto...

A mobile station attached to an access network receives a control message identifying neighboring cells of a different wireless technology than the access network. The mobile station searches for signaling of the neighboring cells of the different wire less technology, and in response to not being able to detect the...

Upon receiving a particular data unit by a receiving layer of a wireless device, it is detected that a previous data unit earlier in sequence to the particular data unit has not yet been received by the receiving layer. A timer is started in response to the detecting, where the timer has a timeout period that is var...

A mobile station receives a control message containing an indicator of presence of a first access network that operates according to, a first protocol that is capable of interworking with a second access network that operates according to a second, different protocol. In response to receiving the indicator, the mobi...

The present invention supports a message protocol on a wireless communication network to setup a shortened slot cycle operation for a mobile station. During wireless, packet-based communication, a mobile station can utilize a shortened slot cycle to increase the frequency a communication channel is monitored by a mo...

In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for providing broadcast multicast service using the supplemental channel. The method and apparatus of performing traffic mode broadcast multicast is implemented by leveraging the existing traffic channel structure and infr...

The present invention provides for reactivating a plurality of dormant packet data services instances. A mobile station user desires to activate at least one dormant packet data service instance. A service negotiation is initiated between the mobile station data and the wireless support network supporting the mobile...

Provided is a system and method for maximizing the number of communication sessions in a telecommunications network. The network includes multiple protocols that each utilize a certain number of codes and a certain amount of power. Accordingly, the desirability of each protocol may vary depending on the number of co...

Operating a cellular wireless communication network to configure a mobile station to support a Multi-Media Service (MMS). Operation includes determining that configuration of the mobile station for the MMS is required. A plurality of components of the cellular wireless communication network are provisioned for confi...

An Ethernet virtual switched sub-network (VSS) is implemented as a virtual hub and spoke architecture overlaid on hub and spoke connectivity built of a combination of Provider Backbone Transport (spokes) and a provider backbone bridged sub-network (hub). Multiple VSS instances are multiplexed over top of the PBT/PB...

Provided is a system and method for a self-configuring repeater in a telecommunications network. The repeater receives data from a base transceiver station (BTS) via a downlink channel and sends data to the BTS via an uplink channel. The repeater compares the power level of a downlink signal (such as a pilot signal)...

Ethernet provider backbone transport (PBT) paths are controlled utilizing Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) signaling protocol. A path between edge nodes is identified by a combination of a VID and destination MAC address in a VID/MAC tuple populated in the forwarding tables of intermediary nodes. ...

Abstract of the Disclosure A new type of Provider Edge (PE) device is used to support BGP-based iP-VPNs. Each VRF instance in a PE device is associated with a dedicated IP address (Service IP address). Each service iP address is dedicated to a VRF in a PE device. The service IP address is distributed by BGP for VPN...

A method of operating a networked multiplayer game comprising the steps of: a) providing to a player a controllable representation of a game character in a game environment whereby said player may control said character to interact with said environment; b) providing, within said game environment, a mechanism oper...

A mobile station transmits sub-packets at a specified transmission rate or an autonomous transmission rate based on a PERSISTENCE bit. The mobile station increments, decrements, or does not change the transmission rate when the PERSISTENCE bit is a second logic state and a rate control bit (RCB) value is a first, a ...

1. A method for controlling data transfer using a short data burst mechanism between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) , the method comprising the steps of: identifying that a short data burst mechanism is desired to be used for transmitting data between the MS and the BS; and transmitting the data o...

The present invention provides for a scheduling scheme to be used with respect to a given mobile station. It is determined whether the given mobile station is or is not in soft-handoff. This is performed through examining a reduced active set. The reduced active set is based upon the active set, and the selection of...

The present invention relates to using authorization information provided by an asserting agent to control identity-related interactions between a receiving agent and an identity agent, which acts on behalf of the asserting agent. The authorization information may be provided to the identity agent directly or throug...

An antenna array may be constructed using a plurality of tubes of electrically conducted material in conjunction with an additionally electrically conductive component which covers the front faces of tubes and at least part of the sides. Between the structures, a further electrically conductive material may be plac...

Provider Link State Bridging (PLSB) expands static configuration of Ethernet MAC forwarding tables by the control plane and utilizes direct manipulation of Ethernet forwarding by a link state routing system. At least one media-access-control (MAC) address for unicast forwarding to the bridge and at least one MAC a...

In one embodiment of the present invention, the concepts similar to web cookies are applied to interactive communication sessions (ICS). In particular, an ICS cookie is created by a first communication client in association with a first ICS, and delivered to a second communication client. In association with a secon...

A method for providing network synchronization with a unified messaging system (104) is provided. The method includes receiving and storing (300) message data, such as voice data, for a specified recipient. An enhanced e-mail message is generated (302) for the recipient. The message, which is in hypertext mark-u...

To interwork between a first authentication domain and a second authentication domain, a bridge module performs a first authentication procedure in the first authentication domain for a mobile station, wherein the first authentication domain is part of a wireless access network. Based on information collected in the...

A base station, mobile station, and/or other terminal device includes physical layer (layer 1) protocol and link layer (layer 2) protocol that both include automatic retransmission request (ARQ) operations. The physical layer and link layer include enhancements that interact with one another to cause the link layer ...

In a network that supports mobility of a mobile node, a tunnel between a first mobility node and a second mobility node is established in the network. The established tunnel is according to a tunneling protocol (e.g., Generic Routing Encapsulation tunneling protocol) that uses at least one key for encapsulating data...

To communicate in a wireless network, resources of at least one node (20A) of the wireless network are pre-allocated (44). The pre-allocated resources (44) comprise resources normally allocated in response to a call setup request. A first call setup request is received after pre-allocating the resources, and in resp...

In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for identifying packet-based applications in a packet-based network. As such, the packet-based applications may receive specialized treatment.

In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus for performing fast call set-up in a wireless network is presented. A number of efficiencies are implemented to diminish the time required for establishing a call in a packet-based network. For example, call initiation and Base Station...

A wireless network includes a base station and a relay station for extending wireless coverage of the base station. Downlink data is sent by the base station and relayed through the relay station to a mobile station, where the downlink data is associated with a preamble that is sent directly from the base station ...

A method for controlling data transfer using a short data burst mechanism between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) the method comprising the steps of: identifying that a short data burst mechanism is desired to be used for transmitting data between the MS and the BS; and transmitting the data over a c...

A wireless communication system includes an intermediate node, a first node and a second node. There is described a method for implementing MIMO based network coding, comprising the first node transmitting first data to the intermediate node, and the second node transmitting second data to the intermediate node. Bot...

A method and apparatus for enabling Orthogonal codes to be reused within the same cell of a code division multiple access telecommunication network includes an base station transceiver system that comprises logic circuitry for enabling the base station transceiver system to reuse Orthogonal codes in a manner that re...

The present invention solves these problems with a new proxy binding update request and proxy binding acknowledgment messages having new indicators and identification information. Namely, the home agent/local mobility anchor will exchange proxy binding update messages and proxy binding acknowledge messages that incl...

A linearised power amplifier including a predistorter and a feedforward circuit is described. By using both a predistorter and a feedforward cancellation system the linearisation of the amplifier is increased. The accuracy of the amplified signal may be further improved by training the predistorter using the error s...

A method and system for wireless communication channel estimation. A frequency offset hypothesis is determined. An interchannel interference ("ICI") matrix based on the frequency offset hypothesis is generated. Pilot channel estimates based on the ICI matrix are obtained. A correlation error of the pilot channel est...

Embodiments of the invention include a method for use in a device having a local oscillator. The method includes performing, for the local oscillator that is disciplined by an external reference signal, while locked to the external reference signal, training at least two mathematical models of the oscillator to dete...

A wireless communications node communicates, over a wireless link, data in a data container structure that includes a configurable concatenation of partitions of different types. The partitions of different types in the data container structure carry information according to different wireless access technologies...

This invention provides a method, system and apparatus for allowing media context sensitive SIP signaling exchange (such as voice) and call establishment while denying or challenging any other session description protocol ("SDP") extension dialogs which might not be desired (such as instant messaging, video, Web ...

A method for registering in a railway operator mobile network node a plurality of associations between a mobile station identifier and a plurality of functional numbers is disclosed. A mobile station sends a registration request message which includes a group registration operation code, and information identifying ...

An access network comprising: at least one access node; a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server coupled to the access node; a network attached storage (NAS) coupled to the access node; a network element manager (NEM) coupled to the access node; and a common provisioning system (CPS) coupled to th...

Systems and methods for providing distributed Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) in a wireless communication system are described herein. In one embodiment, a relay station interconnects a base station of the wireless communication system and one or more mobile stations. A first ARQ process is performed for a first conn...

A method for supporting the transition of a voice call on a user equipment connected to a packet switched source network to a circuit switch target network, the user equipment using a Single radio, comprising the steps of: receiving a first invite transition request message at an intermediate server, said first inv...

Provided are an apparatus, system, and method for facilitating wireless communication between a hub and a mobile terminal via a remote radio module. The remote radio module includes a first transceiver operable to wirelessly communicate with the mobile terminal, a second transceiver operable to wirelessly communicat...

A method and system are provided having an uplink control structure and a pilot signal having minimal signal overhead for providing channel estimation and data demodulation in a wireless commimication network. The uplink control structures enable mobile terminals to communicate with corresponding base stations to pe...

Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a...

A method for discovering the lowest maximum transmission unit setting for one or more nodes on a transmission path from a home network to a mobile node, comprising the steps of: receiving an update message at a home agent on the home network, said update message containing the maximum transmission unit setting fo...

A receiving inter working unit (7) operable to: receive an internet protocol based request from a client (1) for the establishment of a communications link between the client (1) and a remote server (2); configure the receiving inter working unit (7) to forward subsequent communications received from the clien...

1. A method for specifying a power scaling factor for a transmission beam from an access node to a receiver on a communication system that has at least two spatial beams providing coverage in a cell sector, the method comprising: determining the power scaling factor at the access node that should be used to apply t...

A network element (100) arranged to be coupled within a working path of an optical network, the network element comprising: a plurality of ports (PI, P2, P3) having first and second ports (PI, P2) arranged to be coupled to Optical Carrier links (106) within the working path; a switch fabric (136) connected to the pl...

Disclosed is a method and system lor performing a handoff in a wireless eommunication system including receiving a communications signal (e.g. a pilot strength measurement signals from a mobile unit. The communications signal includes a phase offset from a pilot signal from one of the neighboring base station transc...

A method and apparatus for filtering data packets in a shared-medium or point-to-multipoint communications network. A filter unit is sent a data packet carrying a filter tag value in a packet addressed to the filter unit. The value is stored in the filter unit and subsequently received packets not addressed to the...

A wireless communications system includes a shared TDM data channel for communications in different time slots with respective mobile stations (MSs), as well as dedicated channels. A first medium access control (MAC) multiplexing sublayer, provided in a base station controller, maps information of logical channels f...

To perform wireless communications in a closed loop multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, a feedback data structure is communicated over a wireless channel between a first wireless node and a second wireless node, where the feedback data structure contains indicators identifying coding to be applied by th...

A method comprising: for a HARQ process, the HARQ process comprising a first transmission of an encoder packet and at least one 5 retransmission, in which a transmission resource for each respective transmission is allocated; transmitting control information from a base station to a mobile station for each respe...

A computer-implemented method of reserving resources for a customer contacting a contact center. The method includes the steps of identifying the customer associated with a contact received at the contact center, accessing a customer profile to determine at least one non-agent resource to be associated with the cont...

An access network controller and a base station controller are formed to define an interface there between that enables the two systems to facilitate and respond to a voice call that is to be set up to a hybrid mobile station even though the hybrid mobile station is presently engaged in a data only call. Mo...

A packet data service node is formed to establish an "always on" connection with a mobile terminal by way of a packet control function card or device with the ability to determine when a mobile terminal no longer requires a previously established point-to-point protocol communication link. More specifically, the PDS...

A first node receives information associated with a mobile station to allow for establishment of a session for the mobile station that is attached to a first wireless access network in a first service domain. In response to the received information, the first node sends messaging to a home agent in a second se...

A method for providing error correction of media packets. Service nodes associated with a core network segment use a first error correction process, and service nodes associated with an access network segment use a second error correction process. Service nodes associated with a local network segment may use a third...

A multimedia architecture for audio and video content. The architecture includes virtual assets that model, or are associated with, a media presentation and one or more real assets that model, or are associated with, digitally encoded embodiments of the media presentation. The architecture enables automatic selectio...

A method for execution by an apparatus comprising: a. sending a first signal while not during a soft handoff, the first signal being a frequency division multiplexed signal comprising several subcarrier components; b. sending over a second plurality of frequency subcarfiers a second signal during the soft hando...

A method and system are provided for boosting power for a communications link between a base station and a user device, or user equipment, in a cellular communications network. In one embodiment, the communications link is a downlink between the base station and the user device established via a downlink channel...

A system and method are provided for boosting power for a communications link between a base station and a user device, or user equipment, over a communications link channel in a cellular communications network. In one embodiment, the base station determines whether a communications link for a user device located wi...

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Techniques for time transfer via signal encoding are disclosed, in one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for time transfer via signal encoding comprising generating a time service ordered-set for inclusion to a physical coding sublayer frame of a physical layer de...

A mobile station receives a downlink control structure in a first carrier, where the downlink control structure indicates that control information for the mobile station is on a second, different carrier. The mobile station decodes the control information in the second carrier, where the control information specifie...

1.A method of interfacing a Client System (CS) with a network domain, the CS including an Aggregator function for load spreading ingress traffic originating from the CS across two or more parallel links of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), the method comprising: providing a set of two or more peer edge nodes of the...

The present invention provides a technique for reducing power levels associated with two or more input signals using peak reduction distortion that is derived from a combined signal, which represents a combination of the input signals.

The present invention provides a technique for reducing the peak power of a combined signal that has a first signal of a first modulation type and a second signal of a second modulation type. Based on the combined signal, peak reduction distortion is determined. The peak reduction distortion is configured such that,...

A system, method, and network interface obscures the existence of data encryption in a communication network is provided. A set of characters is generated by using a set of encryption keys as an input to a pseudo-random function. Each character corresponds to an index value. The encrypted data is divided into a ...

The present invention provides a technique for making uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that are associated with television content that has been viewed by a viewer readily accessible to that viewer. Television content that is being viewed at any given time is monitored, and URIs that are associated with televisio...

A method and system are provided to perform channelization in a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network including at least one base station that is communicatively coupled to at least one mobile terminal. A bandwidth of the wireless communication network is divided into a plural...

The location of a terminal is estimated within an area of coverage of a wireless network comprising at least one fixed node by measuring a complex frequency response of a radio channel between the terminal and one of said fixed nodes and estimating the location of the terminal on the basis of at least a comparison b...

A significant part of the cost of a base station in the cellular mobile radio system is the power amplifier. Thus it is desirable to maximise usage of a power amplifier and in particular to gain the best power output from the amplifier or to improve its efficiency. Such power amplifiers, however, must operate within...

A method for communicating additional network information using a synchronization identifier is presented. A synchronization identifier is defined. The synchronization identifier is used for the purpose of synchronizing communication between a Mobile Station (MS) and a network. In addition, the synchronization iden...

To authenticate a mobile node, a Mobile IPv6 registration request is received from the mobile node, where the registration request contains authentication information. One example of the Mobile IPv6 registration request is a Mobile IPv6 Binding Update message. A procedure to authenticate the mobile node is performed...

A digital convertible radio optimizes signal-to-noise ratios by substantially canceling undesired components of a plurality of input data streams present in sector signals in a cellular network. The sector output power is then scaled to optimize the total power at the sector output ports. The input data streams are ...

A method of providing wireless data communication at a control entity, said method comprising receiving data in accordance with an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model level 3 protocol; selecting one of a centralized mode and a distributed mode; implementing, when said centralized mode is selected, all...

The present invention allows transmission of multiple signals between masthead electronics and base housing electronics in a base station environment. At least some of the received signals from the multiple antennas are translated to being centered about different center frequencies, such that the translated signals...

The invention relates to enabling differential forwarding in address-based carrier networks such as Ethernet networks. There is described a method of and connection controller for establishing connections (76, 77) in a frame-based communications network comprising nodes (71-75 and 78) such as Ethernet switches. The ...

To provide space division multiple access in a wireless network, plural beams are transmitted within a cell segment. Different information sets are sent in the corresponding plural beams, where one or more of the information sets are detectable by a mobile station depending upon a location of the mobile station in t...

A method for storing data in an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is disclosed. The method comprises: i) selecting a first user and a second user, which are not aliases; ii) analysing first and second data sets associated with the first and second users respectively to identify common data elements in each of the first...

1. A method of managing traffic flow in a packet network, the method comprising: providing a working sub-network comprising one or more provisioned static working paths between at least one source node and one or more destination nodes in the network, and associating a service instance with the working sub-networ...

A mobile station determines whether the mobile station is receiving an overhead message in tunnel mode during a handover procedure of the mobile station from a source wireless access network to a target wireless network. The source and target wireless access networks are according to different technologies. In ...

In a communication environment where a voice bearer is established between a multimedia terminal of a first user and a voice terminal of a second user to allow voice communications between the first and second users, the present invention allows the second user to gain access to video content of the first user throu...

A predictive notification system 150 identifies certain mobile . devices 114, 116 in a wireless telecommunications network 102 that are likely to be within a predetermined geographical area of interest 120 during a predetermined period of time. The identified location/time pair may be one that is associated with or ...

A system and method for determining an initial mean open loop power level of a pilot channel of a reverse traffic channel for a mobile terminal. The initial open loop power level enables handoff of an active call from a first access network to a second access network. A handoff initialization request is from the fir...

The present invention facilitates the forwarding of damaged packets, when the packets are carrying a certain type of content such as streaming media or other time-sensitive information where data integrity is less important than timely delivery. Once a packet is received, a determination is made as to whether the pa...

1. A method for suspension and resumption of communication transmission to a mobile node comprising the steps of: receiving a first message at a local mobility anchor from a first foreign access gateway on a first foreign network, said first message having a suspend setting, said first foreign access gatew...

A method for routing input/output (10) data in a telecommunication system including a network node having a plurality of first integrated circuit (IC) cards, a plurality of second IC cards and a switching fabric, each second IC card connected to a corresponding first IC card in a respective slot of the network node ...

A relay station is provided for use in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations communicatively coupled to a backhaul network and at least one mobile station. The relay station is shared by at least a first base station and a second base station. The re...

To provide customized information to the user, a wireless communications network node receives a stream of data associated with a user. A first trend associated with at least a first attribute in the stream of data is identified, and based on the identified first trend, customized information is sent for presentatio...

A communication network includes a base station in reduce frequency communication with a mobile station in order to regulate packet data messaging by the mobile station, the base station transmits a message over-the-air to the mobile station. The message indicates that the mobile station is to delay transmitting p...

The present invention relates to a method and system applicable within a mobile transmission system for adaptively allocating a downlink data rate to an access terminal to compensate for channel fading. In accordance with the method of the present invention a downlink data rate selected in accordance with a ...

The present invention provides a method of compensating optical signal distortions due to nonlinear effects of an optical communications system, the method comprising steps of: determining a complex non-linear compensation operator C[(E(t)] that is the inverse of a link complex non-linear operator T[E(t)] re...

A communication network comprises a base station (102, 106) in radiofrequency communication with a mobile station (105). In order to regulate packetdata messaging by the mobile station (105), the base station transmits (404) amessage over-the-air to the mobile station (105). The message ind...

The present invention relates to a method of communication in a communication networkincluding first and second network entities, said method comprising receiving at thesecond network entity (200, 105) at least one message (400, 402) communicated over-the-air by the first network entity (10...

A mobile station transmits sub-packets at a specified transmission rate or an autonomous transmission rate based on a PERSISTENCE bit. The mobile station increments, decrements, or does not change the transmission rate when the PERSISTENCE bit is a second logic state and a rate control bit (RCB) value is a first, a ...

A method for use in a wireless terminal having a plurality of antennas comprising: assigning at least one orthogonal sequence to one or more of the plurality of antennas, each of the plurality of antennas being assigned at least one orthogonal sequence; scrambling a signal to be transmitted on the physical uplink ...

An enhanced Doherty-configured amplifier that features separate and independent bias voltage sources for the main and auxiliary amplifiers. The bias voltage sources may be controllable and variable to alter the performance of the amplifier according to the input signal or system requirements. The enhanced amplifier ...

The present invention is a hybrid RF-digital signal processor-based filter for multiband radio architectures systems capable of spectrum re- farming and software defined radios. It performs low -loss frequency agile multiple notch filtering at RF where a large dynamic range exists at a filter input between signals i...

The present invention is a hybrid RF-digital signal processor-based filter for multiband radio architectures, systems capable of spectrum re- farming and software defined radios It performs low-loss frequency agile multiple notch filtering at RF where a large dynamic range exists at a filter input between signals in...

A wireless communications network (10) includesa first base station system (40) that performs wireless communications according to a first protocol (e.g., IxEV-DO protocol) and a second base station system (14) that performs wireless communications according to a second, different protocol (e.g., IS...