Nokia

About: Nokia is a company organization based out in Espoo, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Mobile station. The organization has 16625 authors who have published 28347 publications receiving 695725 citations. The organization is also known as: Nokia Oyj & Oy Nokia Ab.

Misco: a MapReduce framework for mobile systems

Abstract: The proliferation of increasingly powerful, ubiquitous mobile devices has created a new and powerful sensing and computational environment. Software development and application deployment in such distributed mobile settings is especially challenging due to issues of failures, concurrency, and lack of easy programming models. We present a framework which provides a powerful software abstraction that hides many of such complexities from the application developer. We design and implement a mobile MapReduce framework targeted at any device which supports Python and network connectivity. We have implemented our system on a testbed of Nokia N95 8GB smartphones and demonstrated the feasibility and performance of our approach.

Organization and maintenance of images using metadata

Abstract: Data for electronic images is stored in a server. Metadata is assigned to each image file and categorizes each image according to one or more schemes. Possible metadata schemes include image date, one or more image subjects, and image location. The image files may then be searched based on the assigned metadata. Images may be stored in a database that includes at least one virtual folder corresponding to each metadata scheme, with each image having at least one entry in each folder. Each folder may further have subfolders that correspond to sub-categories of a categorization scheme. Each image may then have an entry in each subfolder which describes a part of the image metadata. A date search interface allows a user to select a year of interest, then a month, and then a day. A location search interface allows a user to select a subregion of a displayed region.

Data transmission method in a tdma mobile communication system

Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission method in a TDMA mobile communication system. In a mobile communication system employing a so-called multi-slot access technique, one or more time-slots may be allocated to a mobile station for data transmission at the data transfer rate required by an application using the mobile station. In the invention, upon establishing a data call, the mobile station (MS) indicates the mobile communication network (BTS, BSC, MSC) the minimum and the maximum requirements for the user data transfer rate (Set Up). The mobile communication network assigns the mobile station (MS) for a data call a channel configuration, depending on the network resources currently available in the mobile communication network and enabling a data transfer rate which is between the minimum requirement and the maximum requirement.

Wireless gateway for enabling wireless devices to discover and interact with various short-range services/devices

Abstract: A portable gateway apparatus communicates with devices coupled to a first network and devices coupled to at least a second network. The gateway provides an interface to a mobile phone to discover services/devices within both the first and the at least second networks and interacts with them. The mobile phone includes a service/content directory enabling a user to select preferred services. The gateway conducts service discovery to identify services and devices responsive to the user request. The services and description are provided to the user for selection, after which a service-specific interface is displayed to enable the mobile phone to control the execution of the discovered services.

Apparatus, and associated method, for retrieving mobile-node logic tree information

Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method for facilitating exchange of configuration indicia associated with a mobile node (12) operable in a radio communication system (10) . The mobile node is dynamically-configurable, and includes a logic tree (26) . The indicia is provided to a network manager (22) responsive to request therefore or upon initiation by the mobile node. When initiated at the network, a request message generator (38) located at a network manager generates a get message to request that certain configuration indicia (32) be provided to the network manager (22) . The mobile node (12) , upon delivery of the get message thereto, retrieves the requested information, at a selected level of detail, and returns the indicia to the network manager.