Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Christopher John Davolos

Patrick Jay Walsh

Ronald Bruce Martin

Randall Joe Wilson

Subhasis Laha

Lev B Sofman

Amit K Mukhopadhyay

Thomas Brian Morawski

John MacNamara

Harold J Batteram

Ronald L Kaufman

To effectively plan small cell placement within a current macro cell network, it is necessary to identify the traffic hotspots. Small cells can be placed in hotspot locations in order to effectively offload traffic from the corresponding macro cell. Hotspots can be identified based on information about traffic from/to mobile users, particularly, the observed User Equipment (UE) locations and amount of data transmitted from/to the UEs. Provided are systems and methods for accounting for geo-location errors in identifying hotspots and determining small cell placement.

Geo-location error correction for small cell placement

Methods and systems for managing system resources in a data transmission system are disclosed herein. An adaptive packet inactivity timer can be associated with the data transmission system, wherein the adaptive packet inactivity timer dynamically changes a behavior thereof based on one or more customer attributes, such as, for example, of quality of service (QoS) level. The customer attribute is linked to a plurality of timer parameters that define the behavior of the adaptive packet inactivity timer for management of the data transmission system. Additionally, the customer attributes can be assigned to a customer based on a contract level associated with the customer, or based on an application type intended for use with the customer contract.

Method and apparatus for providing distinctive levels of access to resources on a high-speed wireless packet data network

An end user terminal (EUT), e.g., such as mobile terminal (MT) (), is provided for connecting with an incoming call received over a communications network (A). Suitably, the EUT includes an alerting function and/or equipment that provides perceivable alerting in response to an incoming call attempting to connect with the EUT over the communications network (A). An alert sensor (AS) () detects an alerting status of the EUT, which is then communicated over the communications network (A), e.g., back to the calling EUT

True alert indication

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Christopher John Davolos