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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pilot signal transmission sequence and to provide method for use in a multi-sector cell. SOLUTION: Pilots are transmitted to different sectors at different known power levels. A pilot is transmitted to adjacent sector, while a zero pilot is transmitted to the adjacent sector. This represents transmission of a NULL pilot signal. A cell NULL is also supported, and in this case, NULL pilots are transmitted to each sector of a cell at the same time. Multiple pilot signal measurements are made. At least two channel quality indicator values are generated from measurement values corresponding to at least two pilot signals of different power levels. The two values are transmitted back to a base station, and the base station uses both values to determine the transmission power required to obtain a desired SNR at a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal also reports information indicating the location to a sector boundary. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved method and an apparatus for location tracking and paging. SOLUTION: An inactive-state mobile node updates its location information by transmitting a first message via a radio link to an access node. In response to the first message, the access node generates a second update message. The second message includes a mobile node identifier. The second message is received by a tracking agent. The tracking agent updates location information corresponding to the mobile node. When a route of the second message is specified by the mobile node as a form of an IP message using a mobile IP, the route of the second message is specified for a last network attachment point of the mobile node by a mobile IP home agent. Then, the tracking agent is stationed at the last point and interception of the message is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a switching time of a receiver between carrier frequencies, in the receiver comprising a single filter for a handover in a multi-carrier communication system. SOLUTION: A mobile station sends a handoff request to a current BS (Base Station) sector, which forwards the request to a new BS sector, e.g., via a network link. The new BS sector processes the request assigning dedicated resources, e.g., an identifier and dedicated resources, e.g., an identifier and dedicated uplink segments. The mobile station determines the time of the allocated dedicated segments based upon a received beacon signal from the new BS sector with known timing relationships to dedicated segments. The mobile station breaks the original wireless link just prior to the time of the first assigned dedicated segment. The mobile station communicates information on the assigned dedicated segments to perform registration operations, e.g., timing synchronization and power control, establishing a new wireless link. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and apparatus for efficient two-stage paging wireless communications systems. SOLUTION: Wireless terminals are assigned to paging groups. A few first paging message information bits are modulated into a first paging signal (using non-coherent modulation) to be communicated from a base station to a wireless terminal. WT rises, receives the first paging signal, and checks whether the paging group should wait for a second paging signal. If so, the WT is operated to receive the second paging signal. Otherwise, the WT goes back to sleep conserving power. The base station modulates a number of second message information bits (using coherent modulation) to transmit signals to WTs. A WT can determine that it is the paged WT from the information in the first and the second paging signals to process paging instructions. The objective invoked WT can transmit an acknowledgement signal on a dedicated uplink resources. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and apparatus for selecting between multiple carriers, using a single receiver chain tuned to a single carrier. SOLUTION: Although a receiver is tuned to a single band in wireless communication systems employing multiple carrier frequencies, an estimate of the channel quality corresponding to the currently used carrier, and an alternative carrier is generated without switching between carriers. Transmitters of different cells and/or different sectors primarily use different carrier frequencies but periodically transmit using a neighboring sector's carrier frequency. Mobile node receivers use a single RF chain with a controllable RF filter to receive and compare a first signal component identified within the first currently selected band and a second signal component identified within a second alternative band, thereby making a determination as to whether the receiver's controllable filter should be switched to the second band. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device that allow soft handoff to be implemented without necessitating duplication of data transmissions to a plurality of base stations. SOLUTION: Each mobile terminal device 302 can support a plurality of independent timing loops and/or different control loops on a base station-by-base station basis, thereby allowing the connections to operate independently and in parallel. Different control signals and/or data are transmitted through established and independent connections with base stations 304, 306. In this way, the base stations 304, 306 perform reception of different pieces of data that allow asynchronous data transmission. The data received by the base stations 304, 306 can be provided to a wired asymmetric network without necessitating synthesis of the received data before the data is provided to the wired network. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and apparatus well suited for efficiently communicating small amounts of information relatively frequently in a wireless communications system.SOLUTION: An uplink timing frequency structure for an access point includes a set of dedicated uplink communications resources. Different ones of the set of dedicated uplink communications resources correspond to different individual wireless communications devices currently registered with the access point. In the downlink timing frequency structure for the access point there are dedicated downlink broadcast communications resources. Information received on dedicated uplink air link resources is echoed back or selectively echoed back on the dedicated downlink air link resources. Wireless communications devices monitor downlink dedicated air link resources to recover expression information being communicated by other wireless communications devices in their local vicinity.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and apparatus related to data broadcast and interference management in a peer-to-peer wireless communications network.SOLUTION: Scheduling of traffic air link resources is performed on a slot-by-slot basis in a decentralized manner. Wireless devices intending to transmit broadcast traffic signals transmit broadcast request signals. A receiver device detects the signals and makes an interference determination as to whether a higher priority broadcast traffic signal can be successfully recovered. If the determination is that the expected interference from the lower priority broadcast traffic is unacceptable, the receiver device generates and transmits an interference control signal communicating to the lower priority device a command or request not to broadcast.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system that allows a wireless terminal to share an allocated frequency spectrum for communications over two different networks while mitigating cross interference.SOLUTION: For wireless terminals equipped with a single antenna, interference mitigation may be achieved by allocating first communication channels to a first network and allocating second communication channels to a second network, where the second communication channels are allocated within one or more of the second communication channels. For wireless terminals having multiple antennas, interference mitigation may be achieved with two orthogonally polarized antennas, where each antenna is used for communications with a different network.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ad hoc peer-to-peer communication network between wireless devices where a high priority receiver device is configured to perform successive interference cancellation (SIC).SOLUTION: The first receiver device sends a first rate report signal and a second rate report signal, which indicate a first transmission rate and a second transmission rate, to a first transmitter device. A connection is established between the first transmitter device and the first receiver device, where the first receiver device is the intended receiver of traffic signals from the first transmitter device. The first receiver device receives a traffic signal in a subsequent traffic channel, the traffic signal including a first traffic signal from the first transmitter device having a first traffic transmission rate not exceeding the first transmission rate (608). The received traffic signal also includes a second traffic signal transmitted by an interfering second transmitter device having a second traffic transmission rate not exceeding the second transmission rate (610).