摘要:
A method and apparatus for mitigating the impact of lost data due to cell reselection for mobile stations operating in packet data transfer mode is described. A mobile station may perform cell reselection 2 to 4 times per minute when located in an urban area, even if the mobile station remains stationary. A mobile station moving through a communications network (100) may cross over various cell and routing area boundaries. Further, a mobile station operating in push-to-talk mode may lose up to 8 seconds of data when reselecting a cell in a new routing area. A serving cell transmits an information element (301, 303, 305) in which the mobile station is informed whether cells in its neighbor list are in the same routing area as its serving cell. If the radio link to the serving cell is acceptable then the mobile station avoids reselection to cells outside its serving cell routing area.
摘要:
A wireless mobile terminal (10) and method for utilizing digital broadcast content records (204) selected digital broadcast content as received, for example, by a digital broadcast receiver (16) and provides editing of the selected digital broadcast content based on digital rights management data to generate customized clips of information. The selected digital broadcast content is edited (206) to produce mobile terminal edited digital broadcast content that may be, for example, distributed (208) by the mobile terminal to a plurality of peer devices. A broadcast content editor (24) allows for the editing of clips of content wherein the edited clips are then stored in memory as recorded clips for distribution by the mobile terminal. In another embodiment, a network element is remotely controlled by the mobile terminal to effect editing through the mobile terminal at the network element.
摘要:
A method of maintaining call quality in a communication system by communicating between a base site (101) and a communication unit (113) on a first channel. The communication unit (113) monitors the downlink communication signal (116) transmitted by the base site (101) and determines a characteristic of the first channel. The communication unit (113) is then handed off to a second channel having a less aggressive reuse pattern, based on the characteristic of the first channel.
摘要:
A communication system time division multiplexes the use of spreading codes. The communication system accepts information (301, 302) from at least two users and codes each users information utilizing error correction coders (303, 306). The coded information is then time multiplexed by a multiplexer (312) into timeslots. The output of the multiplexer (312) is spread by a common spreading (Walsh) code, scrambled with a pseudo-noise sequence, and conveyed to a modulator for transmission. In this manner, information for two users may be transmitted utilizing only a single spreading (Walsh) code.
摘要:
A presence attribute information server and manager application, and corresponding method is provided for managing access to presence attribute information. In addition to the presence attribute information entries, access authorization entries associated with at least some of the presence attribute information entries are provided which define conditions in which access to the presence attribute information is authorized. Generally, the defined conditions can include temporal and/or spatial requirements associated with either the user requesting the presence attribute information or the person/item associated with the presence attribute information, for purposes of establishing authorization to access the presence attribute information.
摘要:
A communication system receives and codes a plurality of information signals according to coding assignments to produce a plurality of coded baseband signals. From these signals, a simulated composite carrier signal is formed which has all the characteristics of an actual composite carrier signal which would have resulted if the plurality of coded baseband signals had been formed. The simulated composite carrier signal is analyzed to determine its peak-to-average ratio. The communication system selects a different coding assignment for coding the plurality of information signals if, based on the determined peak-to-average ratio and a selection criteria, the coding assignment does not produce the desired results. The communication system selects a different coding assignment until at least one or several desired coding techniques have been identified, ranks the coding techniques and makes a final selection of the coding techniques to meet the peak-to-average ratio requirements.
摘要:
A subscriber's signal (117) is removed from a composite signal (120) received in a serving base station (100), where the subscriber (113) is not in communication with the serving base station (100). The subscriber's signal (117) is removed from the composite signal (120) by receiving information regarding potential interferers in communication with the non-serving base stations (403). Next, a most reliable signal is determined from the potential interferers in communication with non-serving base stations (405). The most reliable signal is then removed from the composite signal (407).
摘要:
A communication unit (200) for use in a communication system is provided which includes a hopping mechanism (114, 144) which hops communication frames over a plurality of carrier frequencies according to a predetermined hopping pattern. At least one of the communication frames preferably includes a synchronization channel time slot having data bits from which the predetermined hopping pattern may be derived. In addition, a communication unit (100) is provided which includes a signal acquisition mechanism (142) for initially acquiring a predetermined hopping pattern that specifies the sequence over which hop frames are hopped over a plurality of carrier frequencies. Also, this communication unit (100) includes a hopping mechanism (134, 144) for hopping receiving frequency according to the predetermined hopping pattern such that a control channel may be detected. In an alternative embodiment, either communication unit may derive the predetermined hopping pattern from detected global position satellite information (149).
摘要:
In a TDMA cellular network, there is provided a mechanism for shared-carrier frequency-hopping. It comprises: allocating on a frame basis within a reuse diameter to one coverage area (A-I) during certain timeslot(s) at least one from a pool of TDM frame-hopped carriers and allocating on a frame basis within that carrier reuse diameter to another coverage area (A-I) during certain other, substantially non-overlapping timeslot(s) that frame-hopped carrier, all in substantially non-interfering time-synchronism with any proximal reuse of that carrier, whereby the advantages of frequency hopping are obtained. Stated differently, it comprises: at one instant in time, allocating within a reuse diameter to one coverage area (A-I) at least one of a plurality of hopped carriers and at that same instant in time, allocating within that carrier reuse diameter to another coverage area (A-I) another of that plurality of hopped carriers, all in time-synchronism with any proximal reuse of that carrier. The control and access carriers may also be included in the hopping pool, causing certain timeslots to be hopped on a sequence different from the others. The pool of hopped carriers is further apportioned among co-located sites into hopping groups, thereby reducing intra-system synchronization requirements. To solve the near/far problem, TDM timeslots bordering hopping boundaries are preferentially allocated to less distant mobile users.