299 results about "Mobile broadband" patented technology

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile broadband routable internet (MBRI) providing for carrier-grade, networked, broadband, IP-routable communication among a plurality of mobile devices, where the mobile devices may represent a plurality of nodes that are linked together through a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Mobile devices may operate as peers in a peer-to-peer network, with full IP routing capabilities enabled within each mobile device, thereby allowing routing of IP-based traffic, including deployment of applications, to the mobile device without need for infrastructure conventionally required for mobile ad hoc networks, such as cellular telephony infrastructure. Full IP-routing to mobile devices may allow seamless integration to the fixed Internet, such as through fixed or mobile access points, such as for backhaul purposes. Thus, the MBRI may function as a standalone mobile Internet, without connection to the fixed Internet, or as an IP-routable extension of another network, whether it be the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network, a cellular network, a personal area network, or some other type of network that is capable of integration with an IP-based network.

A WiMAX network and communication method, the network including a plurality of WiMAX nodes deployed in micro or pico cells for providing access service to a plurality of mobile subscribers, a plurality of these nodes being arranged in a cluster, one of the nodes in each cluster being a feeder node coupled to a core network, the nodes in each cluster being coupled for multi-hop transmission to the feeder node. According to a preferred embodiment, each node includes a transceiver with associated modem, an antenna arrangement coupled to the modem and arranged for multiple concurrent transmissions, and a MAC controller for controlling the transceiver, modem and antenna arrangement for providing both access and backhaul communication.

The present invention provides a method and system for facilitating efficient handoff and data throughput in mobile broadband communication systems. Methods implemented by a system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention include selectively enabled soft handoff, performing Layer 2 bearer functions at the base station and using the mobile device to coordinate soft handoff and interference avoidance without the need for a centralized coordination function.

The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamfonming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improve user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment.

The present invention is related to transmitting quality of service (QoS) information of a target base station for admitted service flows during a handover operation. The invention comprises providing a service to a mobile station from a serving base station and receiving at the serving base station a handover request from the mobile station. The serving base station the provides a handover notification to a target base station, wherein the handover notification comprises a QoS parameter associated with the service. The serving base station then receives from the target base station a handover notification response, wherein the handover notification response comprises service level prediction information that is determined in response to the QoS parameter associated with the service. Finally, the serving base station provides a handover response to the mobile station, the handover response comprising the service level prediction information.

There is provided a method of enabling a mobile broadband hotspot by an auxiliary radio. By utilizing a commonly available auxiliary radio, such as a Bluetooth radio, hotspot connectivity using a primary radio, such as Wi-Fi, can be readily enabled. Accordingly, device connections, guest access, and device disconnections can be easily requested on demand from a mobile broadband hotspot. Additionally, the mobile broadband hotspot may be configured to enable or disable connections using a predetermined schedule. The pre-determined schedule may provide Internet access only when necessary, such as during scheduled device updates.

A mobile broadband wireless system including at least two pairs of nodes arranged in a cluster, each pair coupled to form a link for wireless communication; each node including: an RF transceiver with associated modem; an antenna array arrangement, each antenna having a beam pattern selected to improve quality of transmission, coupled to the modem and arranged for multiple concurrent transmissions; a controller for controlling the transceiver, modem and antenna array arrangement for providing point to point communication; the controller including means for allocating MIMO streams and modulation to different antennas in the antenna array arrangement; and at least one interference mitigation mechanism implemented by the controller to minimize interference within the cluster during multiple concurrent transmissions, and a method of wireless communication.

The invention discloses a signal channel estimating method, which is used for reducing the number of pilot frequencies through compressive sensing in a mobile broadband communicating system, is realized by reducing the required number of pilot frequency symbols in the signal channel estimation of the system as well as on the basis of the principle that the compressive sensing technique can recover sparse signals with less measuring values and the sparse characteristic of the signal channel of the mobile broadband communicating system, and can ensure the signal channel estimation performance of the system. The signal channel estimating method can well solve the defect in the prior art that the sparse characteristic of the signal channel is not considered in the signal channel estimating ways of the prior art and consequently more pilot frequencies consumption is required, and improves the traditional methods as follows: by utilizing the sparse signal channel characteristic, a new signal channel estimating method is designed to reduce the number of pilot frequencies, greatly reduce the energy consumption of the system and ensure effective signal channel estimation. The signal channel estimating method has well popularization and application prospect.

The present invention is related to transmitting quality of service (QoS) information of a target base station for admitting service flows during a handover operation. The invention comprises providing a service to a mobile station from a serving base station and receiving at the serving base station a handover request from the mobile station. The serving base station then provides a handover notification to a target base station, wherein the handover notification comprises a QoS parameter associated with the service. The serving base station then receives from the target base station a handover notification response, wherein the handover notification response comprises service level prediction information that is determined in response to the QoS parameter associated with the service. Finally, the serving base station provides a handover response to the mobile station, the handover response comprising the service level prediction information.

Smart home perception and control system. The system builds an embedded platform with DSP chip as the core, connects with a large number of sensors, collects temperature and humidity, smoke concentration and noise, as well as human body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and other health conditions. The system uses wireless radio frequency modules to wirelessly control specific home appliances in the family, connects to the network data cloud through home broadband or 3G communication, captures images through analog cameras, processes the collected information on the DSP platform, and responds accordingly according to the results. This system can intelligently control the work of home appliances according to the statistical rules of the owner's life, and can automatically control the opening and closing of the door according to the situation in front of the door; it can automatically sense the abnormal situation of the home and automatically alarm; Information, to achieve remote control, or stay at home, so that doctors can check their own health status through the network data cloud thousands of miles away.

The present disclosure relates to an early warning and recommendation system for proactive management of a wireless broadband network. Without human intervention, the system processes highly heterogeneous network and non-network data and applies unsupervised machine learning to the data to predict and understand the situations that lead to different network state conditions. More specifically, unsupervised clustering is applied to the data to understand “situations” that can lead to non-normal network state conditions. A deep neural network model of situations is then created to further understand the underlying data relationships between the elements of a situation and network states. The deep neural network model and Reinforcement Learning is used to provide recommendations as to changes in wireless / mobile broadband network configuration parameters that will improve the state of a predicted situation associated with non-normal network conditions. The system displays warnings and corresponding recommendations regarding predicted non-normal network conditions in a user interface for a network operator.

The invention discloses a sub-frame structure of a Multicast Single Frequency Network as well as a sending method in a mobile broadband system. The invention can avoid waste of resources caused by blank sampling points in the sub-frame of the Multicast Single Frequency Network. Every single sub-frame of the Multicast Single Frequency Network comprises a plurality of OFDM symbols. The method comprises that the following steps: increasing the length of the OFDM symbols circulation and / or adding the suffix of the OFDM symbols circulation while node B structures downstream MBSFN sub-frame, so as to ensure data exist in all samples of the MBSFN sub-frames; the node B sends the well-structured sub-frames of MBSFN to each terminal.

Methods are provided for transmitting BCMCS in mobile broadband wireless cellular systems under development.

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a fixed device performs a cell search to search for one or more cells on a network and determines a transmit power level to communicate with one of the cells of the network. The fixed device sets a frequency of updating the transmit power level for communication with a cell on the network, wherein the frequency of updating the transmit power level is reduced for the fixed device with respect to a mobile device.

The invention relates to a virtual lead code based random access method of a wireless mobile broadband system. The method comprises the following steps: a base station sets a front lead code virtual resource tank and selects a lead code for a UE (User Equipment) meeting a non-competitive random access scene from a dedicated lead code package or a virtual resource tank; the UE transmits the distributed lead code to the base station in a corresponding random access channel; the base station judges whether the received lead code belongs to the virtual resource tank or not, if so, the corresponding time frequency resource information is distributed for the UE preferentially, and otherwise, ordinary random access flow is used for completing the random access; and the UE distributed with the virtual lead code finishes the random access process by the non-competitive random access flow according to the distributed time frequency resource information. The invention has simple and reliable method, does not need to physically change the base station or change the LTE (Long-Term Evolution) protocol, overcomes the shortage of the traditional non-competitive random access method, improves the random access success rate of the UE and reduces the random access time delay of the UE.

The invention discloses an active user detection and channel estimation method with adaptive overhead. Using the estimated active user set and the channel thereof, the estimation quality is evaluatedby calculating the received signal error, and the time slot overhead of the pilot frequency in the frame structure can be adaptively adjusted according to the number of active users and the channel environment in the real system, so that the service quality is ensured with the access time delay as low as possible, and super-reliable active user detection and channel estimation are realized. The method also aims at an enhanced mobile broadband scene, large-scale machine type communication and other huge-address communication scenes in a cellular network in the future. According to the method, the pilot signal for broadband uplink unlicensed multiple access is reasonably designed by utilizing the sporadic characteristic of the uplink transmission flow of the user and the sparsity of a large-scale MIMO virtual angle domain channel, and an advanced compressed sensing technology is introduced, so that the access delay of the user can be greatly reduced.

An internet of things based personal self-help parking charge management system comprises a mobile terminal, a server, an internet of things parking lock, a server management terminal, system maintenance staff, and park management staff, which interact with one another; the mobile terminal is used for installing APP (application) software and remotely controlling the internet of things parking lock and is connected to a third-party payment platform to allow mobile payment; the server is used for running the APP software in the system; the internet of things parking lock comprises a parking lock; a control circuit connectable to the internet is built in the internet of things parking lock and is connected with a mobile broadband network and used for receiving a control signal from the mobile terminal so as to lock or unlock a parking lot and sending idleness / occupation information of the parking lot to the server; the system maintenance staff is used for maintaining, correcting and managing the information and data stored in the server and a park management terminal; the park management staff is used for managing and monitoring a park. The system has the advantages that the problems such that the existing owners of cars in cities have difficulties in parking the cars and finding parking lots and payment is time consuming are comprehensively solved through the wireless internet and a simplest method, and the system is of good social benefit.

There is provided a system and method for managing hotspot network access for a plurality of devices. There is provided a mobile broadband hotspot comprising a processor configured to detect an occurrence of an event, determine a device from the plurality of devices to receive a notification of the event, determine a policy directed to the device, and execute the policy on the mobile broadband hotspot or on the device. Accordingly, by providing notifications of events to appropriate devices of the network, a better user experience is maintained. Moreover, the mobile broadband hotspot may transmit event notification to specific devices that may be affected by the execution of the policy in order to provide a better user experience for the users of those devices.

A distribution network for coupling wireless signals between an internetworking device and a plurality of remotely located access points to provide wireless service within a geographic coverage area composed of microcells. The distribution network makes use of available transport cabling. Examples of such wireless signals include wireless metropolitan area network signals and mobile broadband wireless network signals.

A vehicle diagnostic tool that is configured to perform one or more diagnostic tests on one or more systems of a vehicle. Once the test has been performed and data collected, the data may be forwarded to a location outside of the diagnostic tool through a mobile broadband connection device that is inserted into the diagnostic tool through a designated port. Also, a method of performing a vehicle diagnostic test utilizing such a diagnostic tool.

The present invention relates to an uplink control channel configuration in a mobile wideband wireless access system, and an allocation method thereof. An uplink control channel includes a long cyclic prefix used to improve interference and distortion caused by multipath transmission characteristics of an initial ranging or handover ranging signal and a periodic ranging or band request ranging signal. In addition, a short orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) symbol is used to transmit uplink control information when one terminal exists or the number of terminals is small.

There is provided a system and method for managing billing for hotspot network access. There is provided a mobile broadband hotspot comprising a processor configured to receive a credential from a device of a plurality of devices, track a data usage associated with the credential, submit the credential and the data usage to a central billing server, modify a billing statement associated with the credential using a billing policy in response to receiving the billing statement from the central billing server, and transmit the billing statement to the device for showing on a display of the device. Accordingly, the mobile broadband hotspot may track individual data usage and allow for flexible billing of individual data usage.

Embodiments may comprise hardware and / or code within a cellular phone to process data related to charges for a call to indicate the charges to the user. In some embodiments, the charges may be presented in the form of an icon. The icon may indicate whether or not charges apply to the call, a range of charges, and / or a rate of charge. Further embodiments may display characters describing conditional charges for a call. In still further embodiments, the charges for a call may be indicated by an audible alert such as a volume, frequency, pattern of frequencies, or a voice generated. Embodiments may also include hardware and / or code of a cellular phone server such as an MTSO to gather and transmit account information to a cellular phone (or apparatus with similar functionality such as a mobile broadband card).

A device configured to provide wireless service and power for a smart speaker includes at least one transceiver configured to wirelessly connect to a mobile broadband network and further configured to obtain internet access and the at least one transceiver further configured to wirelessly connect to the smart speaker and provide the internet access to the smart speaker. The device further includes a power supply configured to store power and the power supply further configured to provide power to the at least one transceiver. The power supply further configured to store power and the power supply further configured to provide power to the smart speaker. The device further includes a housing configured to house the at least one transceiver and the power supply.

The invention discloses a safety ability negotiation method in the ultra mobile broadband system which comprises that: 1) after a terminal AT receives an identity request message, the terminal AT triggers an authentication process and finishes the safety ability negotiation between the AT and an SRNC, between the AT and eBS through an HAAA, a group of encryption algorithm and integrity protection algorithm which are commonly supported are selected, and a selected algorithm identifier is assigned to the SRNC, the eBS and the AT; 2) according to the confirmed encryption algorithm and integrity protection algorithm as well as an encryption key and an integrity key which are produced during the key exchange , the AT and the eBS make integrity protection to a subsequent sent signaling message and encrypts a subsequent sent sensitive message, and a receiving party makes integrity check and encryption to the received messages. The invention can achieve the encryption algorithm and the integrity protection algorithm used between the terminal and the access network, and furthest maintains the integrity of the main content of the prior specification.

To reduce the mobile data usage, information associated with future events is prefetched via an inexpensive mass-data transfer link (e.g. Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or off-peak mobile broadband) and does not need to be fetched via an expensive mobile communication link (e.g. mobile broadband) during normal usage. Location-based prefetch and participant-based prefetch can leverage the existing infrastructures of location-based services (LBS) and social networking services (SNS). Because they provide a more reliable prediction of future events than those guessed from past events, schedule events managed by a calendaring application is primarily used to predict future events.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a block chain unicast / multicast network, a block chain device and a communication method thereof in a mobile broadband network. A method executed at a block multicast node of a block chain network includes obtaining and validating new block information. The method further includes steps of generating different types of block multicast messages in response to the validated new block information and on the basis of the type of the block node in a multicast area and the new block information, and sending the different types of block multicast messages to a multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) node in the mobile broadband network such that the messages are broadcasted to a plurality of block nodes via the mobile broadband network. The embodiments of the disclosure synchronize the latest block chain to all the nodes through the MBMS multicasting, which effectively solves the problem that a traditional P2P network occupies too many network resources and easily causes a network storm. In addition, the block chain nodes rapidly synchronize a block chain through MBMS multicasting, which has the advantages of good real-time performance and easy implementation.