公开(公告)号：US20140024359A1

公开(公告)日：2014-01-23

申请号：US14035500

申请日：2013-09-24

申请人： Mark Kent ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz

发明人： Mark Kent ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz

IPC分类号： H04W8/22

CPC分类号： H04W8/22 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04W84/045

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for installation and configuration of a femtocell are provided. In this regard, information for configuring a femtocell to operate in a specified location may be received by the femtocell and may be utilized to configure one or more parameters of the femtocell. Once the femtocell is operational the parameters may be updated and/or optimized based on one or both of characterizations of cellular signals and/or information received from a femtocell registry. In this manner the femtocell may be reconfigured utilizing the updated and/or optimized parameters. The one or more parameters may be configured based on attributes of the location in which the femtocell is to operate. The one or more parameters may be configured based on a location, number, and/or coverage area of other femtocells The parameters may comprise one or more of power levels, frequency of operation, and/or antenna beam pattern.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于安装和配置毫微微蜂窝基站的方法和系统。 在这方面，用于配置在特定位置操作的毫微微小区的信息可以由毫微微小区接收，并且可以用于配置毫微微小区的一个或多个参数。 一旦毫微微蜂窝基站可操作，可以基于从毫微微小区注册表接收的蜂窝信号和/或信息的一个或两个表征来更新和/或优化参数。 以这种方式，可以使用更新和/或优化的参数来重新配置毫微微小区。 可以基于毫微微蜂窝基站要运行的位置的属性来配置一个或多个参数。 可以基于其他毫微微小区的位置，数量和/或覆盖区域来配置一个或多个参数。参数可以包括功率电平，操作频率和/或天线波束图案中的一个或多个。

公开(公告)号：US08446836B2

公开(公告)日：2013-05-21

申请号：US12395383

申请日：2009-02-27

申请人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04W4/00

CPC分类号： H04L12/4641 ,  H04W84/045 ,  H04W88/10

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for supporting a plurality of providers via a single femtocell are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may determine characteristics of one or more VLANs to which it is virtually communicatively coupled via a non-cellular connection and via a cellular connection. Based on the determined characteristics of the one or more VLANs, a cellular transmitter and/or receiver of the femtocell may be controlled to transmit and/or receive packets belonging to the one or more VLANs via the non-cellular connection and/or via the cellular connection. The characteristics of the one or more VLANs may comprise one or more of: cellular standards utilized by the one or more VLANs, cellular frequencies utilized in the one or more VLANs, access technologies utilized by the one or more VLANs, and a duplexing method utilized by the one or more VLANs.

摘要翻译： 提供了通过单个毫微微小区来支持多个提供者的方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，毫微微小区可以确定一个或多个VLAN，通过非蜂窝连接和通过蜂窝连接虚拟地通信耦合的一个或多个VLAN的特性。 基于所确定的一个或多个VLAN的特性，可以控制毫微微小区的蜂窝发射机和/或接收机，以经由非蜂窝连接和/或经由所述无线蜂窝连接来发送和/或接收属于所述一个或多个VLAN的分组 蜂窝连接。 一个或多个VLAN的特征可以包括一个或多个：由一个或多个VLAN使用的蜂窝标准，一个或多个VLAN中使用的蜂窝频率，一个或多个VLAN使用的接入技术，以及利用的双工方法 由一个或多个VLAN。

公开(公告)号：US08441960B2

公开(公告)日：2013-05-14

申请号：US13438548

申请日：2012-04-03

申请人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04L12/28 ,  H04N21/20 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04W4/00

CPC分类号： H04W40/02 ,  H04L29/06176 ,  H04L49/90 ,  H04W28/14 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W84/045

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for timely delivery of multimedia content via a femtocell are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive data via an upstream path and transmit data via a downstream path. One of the upstream path and downstream path may comprise a cellular path and the other may comprise a non-cellular path. One or both of the upstream path and the downstream path may be audio video bridging (AVB) paths. Data may be stored in the femtocell based on timing characteristics of one or both of the upstream path and the downstream path. Data may be delivered to the femtocell utilizing best effort delivery and the data may be forwarded by the femtocell with guaranteed quality of service. Resources in the femtocell may be reserved and/or synchronized, utilizing AVB protocols, for communication of one or more data streams.

摘要翻译： 提供了通过毫微微小区及时传送多媒体内容的方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，毫微微小区可以经由上游路径接收数据，并经由下行路径发送数据。 上游路径和下游路径之一可以包括蜂窝路径，另一个可以包括非蜂窝路径。 上游路径和下游路径中的一个或两个可以是音频视频桥接（AVB）路径。 可以基于上游路径和下游路径中的一个或两个的定时特性将数据存储在毫微微小区中。 数据可以使用尽力传递来传送到毫微微小区，并且数据可以由具有保证的服务质量的毫微微小区转发。 可以使用AVB协议来保留和/或同步毫微微小区中的资源，以用于一个或多个数据流的通信。

公开(公告)号：US08305955B2

公开(公告)日：2012-11-06

申请号：US12395470

申请日：2009-02-27

申请人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Wael William Diab ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04B7/212

CPC分类号： H04J3/0641 ,  H04J3/0644 ,  H04W56/00

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for communication are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive messages from a plurality of different sources comprising one or more other femtocells, one or more cellular enabled communication devices, and one or more non-cellular network nodes. The femtocell may select, based on the received messages, a master clock within one of the plurality of different sources as a master clock for synchronization of the plurality of different sources. A femtocell clock, a global navigational satellite signal (GNSS) clock, a cellular base station clock, or a cellular enabled communication device clock may be selected as the master clock. The femtocell may transmit and/or receive synchronization messages to and/or from the one or more cellular enabled communication devices and the one or more non-cellular network nodes.

摘要翻译： 提供了通信方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，毫微微小区可以从包括一个或多个其他毫微微小区，一个或多个支持蜂窝的通信设备以及一个或多个非蜂窝网络节点的多个不同的源接收消息。 毫微微小区可以基于所接收的消息来选择多个不同源之一内的主时钟作为用于多个不同源的同步的主时钟。 可以选择毫微微小时时钟，全球导航卫星信号（GNSS）时钟，蜂窝基站时钟或支持蜂窝的通信设备时钟作为主时钟。 毫微微小区可以向一个或多个支持蜂窝的通信设备和一个或多个非蜂窝网络节点发送和/或接收同步消息。

公开(公告)号：US08169999B2

公开(公告)日：2012-05-01

申请号：US12355321

申请日：2009-01-16

申请人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04J3/06

CPC分类号： H04J3/0673 ,  H04J3/0664

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for preserving content timing across femtocell interfaces via timestamp insertion are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive a first time-stamped packet via a first interface and transcode the time-stamped packet. The femtocell may buffer the transcoded packet based on a time-stamp recovered from the packet and may transmit the buffered transcoded packet via a second interface. One of the first interface and the second interface may utilize the Internet Protocol. One of the first interface and the second interface may be a non-cellular interface and the other interface may be a cellular interface. The femtocell may be operable to generate a timestamp corresponding to a time instant at which a time-stamped packet arrived via the first interface or the second interface. The timestamp may be referenced to a clock within a cellular enabled communication devices communicatively coupled to the femtocell.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于通过时间戳插入来保持穿过毫微微小区接口的内容定时的方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，毫微微小区可以经由第一接口接收第一时间戳分组，并对时间戳分组进行转码。 毫微微小区可以基于从分组恢复的时间戳缓冲经转码的分组，并且可以经由第二接口发送缓冲的经转码的分组。 第一接口和第二接口之一可以利用因特网协议。 第一接口和第二接口之一可以是非蜂窝接口，另一接口可以是蜂窝接口。 毫微微小区可以用于生成与通过第一接口或第二接口到达的时间戳分组的时刻相对应的时间戳。 时间戳可以参考通信地耦合到毫微微小区的支持蜂窝的通信设备内的时钟。

公开(公告)号：US20100184423A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-22

申请号：US12355444

申请日：2009-01-16

申请人： Mark Kent ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz

发明人： Mark Kent ,  Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin (Sherman) Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz

IPC分类号： H04W16/24

CPC分类号： H04W8/22 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04W84/045

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for installation and configuration of a femtocell are provided. In this regard, information for configuring a femtocell to operate in a specified location may be received by the femtocell and may be utilized to configure one or more parameters of the femtocell. Once the femtocell is operational the parameters may be updated and/or optimized based on one or both of characterizations of cellular signals and/or information received from a femtocell registry. In this manner the femtocell may be reconfigured utilizing the updated and/or optimized parameters. The one or more parameters may be configured based on attributes of the location in which the femtocell is to operate. The one or more parameters may be configured based on a location, number, and/or coverage area of other femtocells. The parameters may comprise one or more of: power levels, frequency of operation, and/or antenna beam pattern.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于安装和配置毫微微蜂窝基站的方法和系统。 在这方面，用于配置在特定位置操作的毫微微小区的信息可以由毫微微小区接收，并且可以用于配置毫微微小区的一个或多个参数。 一旦毫微微蜂窝基站可操作，可以基于从毫微微小区注册表接收的蜂窝信号和/或信息的一个或两个表征来更新和/或优化参数。 以这种方式，可以使用更新和/或优化的参数来重新配置毫微微小区。 可以基于毫微微蜂窝基站要运行的位置的属性来配置一个或多个参数。 可以基于其他毫微微小区的位置，数量和/或覆盖区域来配置一个或多个参数。 这些参数可以包括功率电平，操作频率和/或天线波束图案中的一个或多个。

公开(公告)号：US20100184414A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-22

申请号：US12355413

申请日：2009-01-16

申请人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04W4/00

CPC分类号： H04L65/601 ,  H04L69/24 ,  H04W84/045 ,  H04W88/182

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for processing and delivery of multimedia content by an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device are provided. In this regard, a cellular enabled communication device may communicate its capabilities, preferences, and/or settings to an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device, wherein the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may processes multimedia content for the cellular enabled communication device based on the capabilities, preferences, and/or settings of the cellular enabled communication device. Additionally, the cellular enabled communication device may receive the processed multimedia content from the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device by the cellular enabled communication device. The capabilities, preferences, and/or settings may comprise multimedia processing capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, communication capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, and/or power conditions, preferences, and/or settings. The integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may process the multimedia content to generate a plurality of subset datastreams.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于由集成的毫微微蜂窝基站和机顶盒设备处理和传送多媒体内容的方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，支持蜂窝的通信设备可以将其能力，偏好和/或设置传送到集成的毫微微小区和机顶盒设备，其中集成的毫微微小区和机顶盒设备可以处理蜂窝的多媒体内容 基于支持蜂窝的通信设备的能力，偏好和/或设置来启用通信设备。 此外，支持蜂窝的通信设备可以由通过蜂窝的通信设备从集成的毫微微蜂窝基站和机顶盒设备接收经处理的多媒体内容。 能力，偏好和/或设置可以包括多媒体处理能力，偏好和/或设置，通信能力，偏好和/或设置，和/或功率条件，偏好和/或设置。 集成的毫微微小区和机顶盒设备可以处理多媒体内容以生成多个子集数据流。

公开(公告)号：US08990866B2

公开(公告)日：2015-03-24

申请号：US12355377

申请日：2009-01-16

申请人： Victor T. Hou ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Charles Abraham ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Victor T. Hou ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Charles Abraham ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04N7/20 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/214 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/8547 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/10

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for data processing in a device with integrated set-top-box and femtocell functionality are provided. Data may be received via an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device and may be synchronously processed, utilizing a common clock, to perform one or more femtocell functions and/or set-top-box functions. The common clock may be derived from global navigation satellite system signals. The integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may convert the received data from a first to a second format. The converted data may be transmitted to a cellular enabled communication device via a cellular transmitter within said integrated femtocell and set-top-box device and/or to a multimedia device via a multimedia interface within said integrated femtocell and set-top-box device. The received data may comprise multimedia content. The integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may be operable to encode, decode, transcode, encrypt, decrypt, scramble, descramble, and present the received multimedia content.

公开(公告)号：US08855048B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-07

申请号：US12395410

申请日：2009-02-27

申请人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/00 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L12/66 ,  H04W40/00

CPC分类号： H04W76/14 ,  H04H60/80 ,  H04W84/045

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for peer-to-peer cellular communications are provided in which one or more cellular communication channels may be established between a femtocell and a plurality of communication devices. The femtocell may control routing of data between the plurality of communication devices via the one or more cellular communication channels. The femtocell may enable multicasting and/or broadcasting data from one of the communication devices to two or more remaining ones of the communication devices. The multicast and/or broadcast data may be communicated via the cellular communication channels and may be additionally communicated via an IP connection to the femtocell. Data may be communicated over the cellular communication channels in compliance with 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) standards and/or 3rd generation partnership project 2 (3GPP2) standards. The femtocell may reformat data prior to communicating it to one or more of the plurality of communication devices.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于对等蜂窝通信的方法和系统的方面，其中可以在毫微微小区和多个通信设备之间建立一个或多个蜂窝通信信道。 毫微微小区可以经由一个或多个蜂窝通信信道来控制多个通信设备之间的数据路由。 毫微微小区可以使得能够从通信设备之一多播和/或广播数据到两个或更多个剩余的通信设备。 多播和/或广播数据可以经由蜂窝通信信道进行通信，并且可以经由IP连接另外传送到毫微微小区。 可以根据第三代合作伙伴计划（3GPP）标准和/或第三代伙伴关系项目2（3GPP2）标准在蜂窝通信信道上传送数据。 毫微微小区可以在将数据传送到多个通信设备中的一个或多个之前重新格式化数据。

公开(公告)号：US08442544B2

公开(公告)日：2013-05-14

申请号：US12395313

申请日：2009-02-27

申请人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

发明人： Charles Abraham ,  Xuemin Sherman Chen ,  Wael William Diab ,  Vinko Erceg ,  Victor T. Hou ,  Jeyhan Karaoguz ,  Mark Kent

IPC分类号： H04W72/08

CPC分类号： H04W72/082 ,  H04W24/00 ,  H04W28/04 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W84/02 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W84/042 ,  H04W84/045

摘要： Aspects of a method and system for mitigating interference among femtocells via intelligent channel selection are provided. In this regard, signals which may interfere with cellular communications between a femtocell and a cellular communication device may be detected via the femtocell. Based on the detection, the femtocell may be configured to transmit and/or receive signals on one or more frequencies and/or channels. The one or more frequencies and/or channels may be determined in the femtocell and/or in a network management entity. Detecting interfering signals and configuring the one or more femtocells may occur periodically, upon installation of a femtocell, upon power-up of a femtocell, and/or upon command from a network administrator. The results of the detection may be communicated to one or more other femtocells and/or to a network management entity.

摘要翻译： 提供了通过智能信道选择来减轻毫微微小区之间的干扰的方法和系统的方面。 在这方面，可以通过毫微微小区检测可能干扰毫微微小区和蜂窝通信设备之间的蜂窝通信的信号。 基于检测，毫微微小区可以被配置为在一个或多个频率和/或信道上发送和/或接收信号。 可以在毫微微小区和/或网络管理实体中确定一个或多个频率和/或信道。 检测干扰信号和配置一个或多个毫微微小区可以在安装毫微微小区时，在毫微微小区上电时和/或根据来自网络管理员的命令周期性地发生。 检测的结果可以被传送到一个或多个其他毫微微小区和/或网络管理实体。