A secure data interchange system enables information about bilateral and multilateral interactions between multiple persistent parties to be exchanged and leveraged within an environment that uses a combination of techniques to control access to information, release of information, and matching of information back to parties. Access to data records can be controlled using an associated price rule. A data owner can specify a price for different types and amounts of information access.

Secure data interchange

A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit may request the global location of the remote receiving unit. The paging network could divulge or block such information from a caller depending on the requirements of the subscriber.

Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting

Location sharing and tracking using mobile phones or other wireless devices

A system is disclosed that facilitates web-based information retrieval and display system. A wireless phone or similar hand-held wireless device with Internet Protocol capability is combined with other peripherals to provide a portable portal into the Internet. The wireless device prompts a user to input information of interest to the user. This information is transmitted a query to a service routine (running on a Web server). The service routine then queries the Web to find price, shipping and availability information from various Web suppliers. This information is then available for use by various applications through an interface support framework.

A system, method and article of manufacture for mobile communications utilizing an interface support framework

The present invention is designed to provide a user terminal, a radio base station and a radio communication method of novel structures that can achieve a good communication environment. A radio base station non-orthogonal-multiplexes downlink signals for a plurality of user terminals over a given radio resource, a user terminal having received the downlink signals for the plurality of user terminals decodes downlink signal for another user terminal, judges whether or not the downlink signal for the other user terminal has been successfully received, based on the decoding result of the downlink signal, reports a judgement result as to whether or not the downlink signal for the other user terminal has been successfully received and a judgement result as to whether or not a downlink signal for the user terminal has been successfully received, to the radio base station, and then the radio base station executes retransmission control of downlink signals based on reports from the user terminal.

User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method

A wireless telecommunication system comprises base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

A mobile communications system communicates data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The mobile communications system provides a wireless access interface for communicating data to and/or from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface providing on a downlink first carrier, the first carrier providing a plurality of communications resource elements across a first frequency range for communicating data, and providing a plurality of communications resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range. The wireless access interface provided by the base stations includes a plurality of time divided sub-frames, each sub-frame including the plurality of communications resource elements of the first frequency range and the plurality of the communications resource elements of the second frequency range, and each sub-frame includes a first wideband control channel in a part of each sub- frame having a bandwidth corresponding substantially to the first frequency range, and a second narrow band control channel in a second part of each sub-frame and having a bandwidth which is less than the first wideband control channel and a duration of the second narrow band control channel within the sub-frame is greater than a duration of the first wideband control channel within the sub- frame. The second narrow band control channel is configured for communicating control information to both the first mobile communications devices and the second mobile communications devices and forms part of the plurality of the communications resource elements of the second frequency range of the second carrier. By arranging for the narrow band control channel to be within the virtual carrier and to communicate control information to both first full capability communications devices and second reduced capability communications devices, the second reduced capability devices can access the narrow band control channel which is shared with the first full-capability mobile devices. This arrangement makes more use of the communications resources available to the communications system.

Communications device and method

A method of transmitting data from a communications device to a mobile communications network or receiving data from the mobile communications network at the mobile communications device includes providing, by the mobile communications network, a wireless access interface, for transmitting and receiving data to and from communications devices. The wireless access interface provides communications resources within a system bandwidth and in time divided units providing communications resources within the system bandwidth for allocating to communications devices of a first type and a second type. The first type of the communications devices having a different capability to the second type of communications devices. The method comprises generating, at the communications device, a random access message, by selecting a sequence from a predetermined set of sequences, which have been allocated to the communications devices of the second type and transmitting the random access message from the communications device to the wireless communications network. The method further comprises in response to the random access message, receiving a random access response at the communications device transmitted according to the capability of the communications device of the second type, the random access message being recognised as being from a communications device of the second type from the selected one of the predetermined sequences allocated to the communications devices of the second type. According to this method a mobile communications network can be arranged to differentiate between communications devices of different types by allocating different sequences for use in forming the random access messages between the different types of communications devices and therefore respond to the random access message differently according to the capability of the communications devices of the different types.

Communications system, infrastructure equipment, communications devices and method

A group-based PDCCH capability is proposed in LTE. In particular, information common to a group of UEs, such as those common to a virtual carrier, may be signalled in a group search space within the PDCCH. This common information may include the location of a further control region embedded in the virtual carrier which contains UE-specific information for access the resources of the virtual carrier. Additional methods are introduced for assigning UEs a group identity by implicit signalling, and for determining the aggregation level of the group-based PDCCH search space.

Group based pdcch capability for lte

A mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for communications devices. The wireless access interface provides a plurality of communications resource elements across a host frequency bandwidth, and includes, within the host frequency bandwidth, a first section of communications resource elements within a first frequency bandwidth for allocation preferably to reduced capability devices to receive signals representing the data transmitted by the transmitter unit within the first bandwidth forming a first virtual carrier, the reduced capability devices each having a receiver bandwidth which is greater than or equal to the first frequency bandwidth but less than the host frequency bandwidth. The communications device is configured to transmit to the mobile communications network a relative capability of the communications device to receive data via the wireless access interface, the relative capability comprising at least an indication of a relative bandwidth of the receiver unit to receive signals within the host frequency range greater than or equal to the first bandwidth, and to receive an allocation of communications resource elements which include communications resource elements which are outside the first virtual carrier, but within the bandwidth of the communications device, in response to the indication of the relative capability of the communications device. Communications devices of different capabilities can be allocated communications resources within different frequency ranges according to their capability, which can relieve congestion on a centre frequency of communications resources in which communications devices with a minimum bandwidth capability must receive communications resources for receiving down link signals.

Matthew William Webb

Papers

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

Communications device and method

Communications system, infrastructure equipment, communications devices and method

Group based pdcch capability for lte

Mobile communication base station and method for allocating resources outside of a virtual carrier based on UE capabilities