Abstract:
A method for associating a display format with data depending on the time associated with the data is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the data is received or created. The display format associated with the data is based on the time associated with the data. The time associated with the data can be the time at which the data was received or created. In another embodiment of the invention, a prior file with time-stamped data is received by an update. The update can be either a partial update containing data or an updated file containing data. When the partial update is obtained, the data in the partial update is time stamped. Depending on the time stamp of the data, different display formats are associated with both the data in the partial update and with the data in the prior file. When the updated file is obtained, the updated file is compared with the prior file's time-stamped data. The new data, which is data that is in the updated file and not in the prior file, is time stamped with the time at which the updated file is received. The data that is common to both the updated file and the prior file retains the time stamp already associated with the data in the prior file. A current file is generated. The current file includes data in the updated file that is not in the prior file and data that is common to the updated file and the prior file. A display format is associated with the data in the current file depending on the time stamp of the data. Preferably, associating a display format with the data involves defining a plurality of time intervals and selecting a display format for each time interval. All of the data with a time stamp in a particular time interval would have the same display format associated with it. Each time interval can be associated with a different display format. The display formats can differ in any aspect, such as color, font, voice characteristics, or any combination of aspects of the display format. This allows a reader to tell when a file is created or received, and when updates are made to the prior file, thus saving time and reducing frustration. It permits the reader to decide which sections of the data to read and eliminates the need to re-read already read portions of the prior file. This is particularly useful for a data file such as a news story posted on a web site that has been updated repeatedly because it allows the reader to tell when the parts of the story have been added. This is also particularly useful for a data file such as a contract that has gone through several revisions because it allows the reader to see the chronology of the revisions.
Abstract:
The wireless communication system includes antennas having electrically controllable downtilt angles and downtilt controllers associated with each antenna. The downtilt controllers receive instructions from a main controller, and adjust the downtilt angles of the associated antennas in accordance with the received instructions.
Abstract:
An active session mobility solution for point-to-point protocol (PPP) in accordance with the present invention provides fast and smooth handoff by reducing tunneling overhead on tunneling mechanisms, such as P-P tunneling from a serving Source (e.g., a PPP termination device) to a new serving Target (e.g., a PPP termination device). In the active session mobility solution of the present invention, PPP session can be migrated even if not all phases have been completed (e.g., LCP, PAP/CHAP completed but not IPCP and CCP). In such cases, the incomplete phases will be negotiated at the PPP of the Target PPP.
Abstract:
The wireless communication system includes antennas having electrically controllable downtilt angles and downtilt controllers associated with each antenna. The downtilt controllers receive instructions from a main controller, and adjust the downtilt angles of the associated antennas in accordance with the received instructions.
Abstract:
A method is provided for triggering migration of call session state information. The method includes determining whether to migrate a network access agent associated with an access terminal in a wireless communication system based on at least one of mobility information associated with the access terminal and status information associated with the wireless communication system.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication in a distributed network comprised of a plurality of access points. The method includes receiving information indicating that a dormant call session is to be activated. The method also includes providing an identifier indicative of the dormant call session. The identifier includes information indicative of an access point having information indicative of a state of the call session stored thereon.
Abstract:
An active session mobility solution for radio link protocol (RLP) in accordance with the present invention defines two RLP migrations states. A first state is defined as a forward-link RLP state and depicts the communication of data from a home agent to an access terminal in an IP network. A second state is defined as a reverse-link RLP state and depicts the communication of data from the access terminal to the home agent in the IP network. In one embodiment of the seamless active session mobility solution for RLP in accordance with the present invention, a two-stage RLP transfer process for the migration of the two defined states from a source to a target is implemented. In a first stage, the forward-link RLP state is transferred from a source to a target. In a second stage, frame selection and the reverse-link RLP are transferred from the source to the target.