Softbankbb Corporation

Softbank Corporation

Suncorporation

Datanet Corp.

Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Airspan IP Holdco LLC

Neurosky, Inc.

Softbank Robotics Corp.

Masayoshi Son

Satoru Yoshikawa

Hitoshi Kikuchi

Hitoshi Tsuchiya

Masayuki Doi

Hung Viet Bui

Takashi Tsutsui

KooHyoung Lee

Hadeel Fayad

Takafumi Okaniwa

Paul Nicholas Senior

Zavier Alexander

Stanley Yang

Kosuke Tomonaga

Younpyo Hong

Yasuhiro Noda

Mitsuo Kurobe

Kiyoshi Oura

Masamitsu Kuwahara

Robert Kingsley

Eric Donald Stonestrom

Hironobu Tamba

An apparatus and method are described for providing enhanced network coverage in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the network to provide a common wireless backhaul link for the first sector and the second sector. The apparatus also comprises control circuitry to monitor a performance characteristic of the common wireless backhaul link, and in dependence on the performance characteristic, to implement at least one mechanism to influence whether items of user equipment within at least one of the first sector and the second sector connect to the network via the apparatus.

Apparatus and method for providing network coverage in a wireless network

A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.

Customer serving control system, customer serving system and computer-readable medium

A cellular base station and/or associated equipment will detect the presence of nearby public safety communication and, in response, will automatically change the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed to a predefined safe direction, so as to quickly minimize the likelihood of the base station producing harmful interference to the public safety communication. Further, after thus quickly working to minimize the likelihood of such interference, the base station and/or associated equipment could then more specifically determine a direction from which the public safety communication is arriving and could further adjust the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed away from the determined direction.

Method and system for controlling radio frequency interference to public safety communication

The terminal according to the present application includes: a communication module for scanning to detect accessible access points and connecting to one of the accessible access points; and a connection controller for targeting an identical accessible access point, which has been consecutively detected by a predetermined number of times of scans at predetermined time intervals among the accessible access points, for connection.

Terminal, control method for same, and control program for same

Biosensor wristband

When a connection request is sent from a telephone terminal, even if it is difficult to set a communication path to the destination telephone terminal only through the packet network, a circuit switching network is also used in cooperation with the packet network in order to set a communication path therethrough, so that call loss is prevented from occurring. In accordance with the communication path setting system of the present invention, when it is determined that an ADSL modemconnected to a VoIP networkis not operating, the MGCsets a communication path between a telephone terminaland a telephone terminalthrough the VoIP network, a public switched telephone networkand a voice band signal processing unitof the ADSL modem. In the same manner, when it is determined that the MGCis not operating, the MGCsets a communication path between the telephone terminaland the telephone terminalthrough the VoIP network, the public switched telephone networkand the voice band signal processing unitof the ADSL modem

Communication path setting method and communication path setting system

A PC card and a method of controlling the PC card is provided which can be used to add multiple capabilities to an information processing apparatus in cooperation with a conventional card only by the use of a single card slot. The PC cardis provided with a multifunctional adapter unitwhich controls data exchange between the information processing apparatusand the function of the PC card or data exchange between the information processing apparatusand the function of the PHS card, and a PC card function control unitwhich controls the function of the PC card. The multifunctional adapter unitof the PC cardis provided with a communication control unit, an address control unit, a driving system setting unit, and an interrupt request control unit. The address control unitcontrols address operations in order that the address area used by the PC card function control unitshall not overlap the address area used by the PHS card function control unitin the memory space which is accessed by the information processing apparatusthrough the PC card

PC card and PC card control method

A communication system in accordance with the present invention is provided with a terminal device and a call connection server. The terminal device comprises a personal computerin which software is installed for performing a call connection process, and a dedicated telephone terminalwhich is connected to the personal computerand capable of digital encoding voice band signals. The call connection server comprises a SIP serverwhich performs a call connection process with the personal computerand so forth, a database serverwhich stores related information about the users of an IP telephone service, telephone numbers and designation addresses (IP addresses) in association with each other, and a call agentwhich performs a call connection process on the basis of the information stored in the database server

Communication system, call connection server, terminal apparatus and communication method

The VoIP gateway in accordance with the present invention serves to send a connection request to either the IP network or the PSTN on the basis of the information stored in the VOIP gateway and the destination telephone number contained in the connection request as sent from the telephone terminal. Also, even if a connection request is decided to be sent to the IP network, the VOIP gateway sends the connection request to the PSTN when the IP network state judgment unit judges that the communication through the IP network is impossible. Furthermore, if a destination telephone number includes predetermined identification information, the VOIP gateway can forcibly send the connection request to the PSTN.

Terminal connection device, connection control device, and multi-function telephone terminal

A PC card is provided which can be used to add multiple capabilities to an information processing apparatus in cooperation with a conventional card only by the use of a single card slot. The PC cardcomprises a card main bodywhich is provided with a connection plugfor connecting with the information processing apparatusand a card connectorthrough which an additional cardcan be connected, and which is connected to the information processing apparatusto add multiple capabilities to the information processing apparatus; a pair of parallel rail membersserving to guide the additional cardfor insertion; and a bridge memberconnected between said pair of parallel rail members in order not to block the insertion path.

PC card

A communication system having an automatic dialer, which generates a signal for selection of a communication line from a plurality of communication lines belonging to a plurality of common carriers before communication is made between a calling subscriber and a called subscriber. The automatic dialer automatically transmits the signal for specifying one of a plurality of signal paths coupled to the called subscriber in addition to other necessary signals. The necessary signals may be automatically transmitted with the minimum dial number, resulting in easier operation of the system.

Communication system having an automatic dialer

An automatic dialer, which generates a signal for selection of a communication line from a plurality of communication lines belonging to a plurality of common carriers before communication is made between a calling subscriber and a called subscriber. The automatic dialer automatically transmits a signal specifying one of a plurality of signal paths coupled to the called subscriber in addition to other necessary signals, thus minimizing the numbers dialed by a user and resulting in easier operation of the system. The ones of the plurality of signal paths specified by the system can be easily changed by a tone sent to the system.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayoshi Son