Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Sun Patent Trust

Wi-fi One, LLC

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panaosnic Corporation

Pek Yew Tan

Chan Wah Ng

Jun Hirano

Tien Ming Benjamin Koh

Chun Keong Benjamin Lim

Hong Cheng

Keigo Aso

Tien-Ming Benjamin Koh

Rahul Malik

Mohana Dhamayanthi Jeyatharan

Wei Lih Lim

Saravanan Govindan

Takashi Aramaki

Takako Hori

Toyoki Ue

Yasuo Harada

Chee Bing Tan

Sampath Swaroop Kumar

Daichi Imamura

Takahisa Aoyama

Eiichi Muramoto

Shinichiro Ohmi

Katsuyoshi Naka

Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Boon Ping Lim

Kok Leong Ng

Yosuke Matsushita

Jens Bachmann

Shinkichi Ikeda

Jianfeng Chen

Sua Hong Neo

Kazuhiro Ando

Yosuke Tajika

Hong Tat Toh

Chalermphol Apichaichalermwongse

Daigo Senoo

Keigo Asou

Junya Yamazaki

Do Hui Teh

Benjamin Tien Ming Koh

Yuki Ohira

Yoshihiko Takei

Shivanajay Marwaha

Peng Bin

Kok Hoong Yap

Thoai Nam

Pei Yen Chia

Nandhakumar Ellappan

Kazufumi Kumagai

Xiaofei Zhou

Swaroop Sampath Kumar

Terufumi Takada

Kian Soon Cheng

A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.

Mobile terminal

A mobile terminal associated with a first wireless communication network includes a transceiver that sends a service request message to a first wireless communication network element via a second wireless communications network. The request message requests a service from the second wireless communications network. The transceiver receives service from the first wireless communication network without requiring the mobile terminal to perform an access control procedure with the second wireless communications network.

Service in WLAN inter-working, address management system, and method

Network node and mobile terminal

An address management method is provided, for use when a mobile terminal accesses a service from a WLAN access network, wherein the service is provided in a 3GPP network or in a service provider network via the 3GPP network. First, the mobile terminal connects to the WLAN access network. Second, the mobile terminal sends a tunnel setup request message from the WLAN access network to a network entity located in the 3GPP network, wherein the tunnel setup request message includes a service request identifier for accessing a requested service and a mobile terminal identifier. Third, the network entity receives the tunnel setup request message, and allocates an address for use by the mobile terminal to access the requested service based on the service request identifier and the mobile terminal identifier.

A method of setting which includes: obtaining, from a smart meter, an ID of the smart meter; obtaining, from a HEMS-controller, an ID and a certificate of the HEMS-controller and an ID and a certificate of an appliance controlled by the HEMS-controller; generating management information in which the ID of the smart meter, the ID and the certificate of the HEMS-controller, and the ID and the certificate of the appliance are associated with one another; and transmitting, based on the management information, the ID and the certificate of the HEMS-controller and the ID and the certificate of the appliance which are associated with the ID of the smart meter, to the smart meter.

Setting method, device authentication method, device authentication system, and server

A system of managing collaborative session control when controller is lost or changes to passive-control mode in a data communication network comprising of a control-capable terminal device that can generate and send user preferences on successive controller selection and control policy, a master server device that can make control transfer decisions or take over control upon events, a normal terminal device that can process and response to master server queries on control capacity and its willingness to take over control. These apparatus are connected to each other inside one collaborative session, regardless of their subscriptions. A method of control management of the collaborative session without constant enrollment of controller comprises the steps of sending different types of preferences to master server device; making control transfer or handover decision; and interacting with affected terminals.

System and method to keep continuity of media flows for a collaborative session without constant controller(s) involvement

The present invention introduces system, apparatus and method that reduce wastage of network resources and mobile phone resources. The mobile phone would indicate its status in a tracking area update message when it is connected to the device. The network can then understand from the status indication that the mobile phone is capable of delivering packets to the device, and would thus allow the server to initiate communications. An absence of the status indication would imply the mobile phone is not capable of delivering packets to the device, and the network would then disallow the server to initiate communications.

Communication system and apparatus for status dependent mobile services

A technology is disclosed for a mobile device with multiple interfaces to make use of its multiple interfaces capability with Mobile IP. According to this technology, MN (Mobile Node)comprises a cellular interface to connect to the cellular networkand a Wireless-LAN interface to connect to the local networkand, and sends a Binding Update message to set the address of the Wireless-LAN interface to CoA (Care-of Address) to HA (Home Agent) at the cellular network or CN (Correspondent Node). This Binding Update message includes a special label indication that the cellular interface is currently connected to the home network.

Mobile node and communication control method

Conventional position estimation methods require the deployment of more fixed anchors in order to increase the accuracy in a crowded indoor environment, or they suffer from inaccuracies due to multipath fading. The present invention overcomes the problems associated with the prior arts by selecting one or more mobile nodes as virtual anchors when estimating the position of a target mobile node. This takes advantage of the fact that mobile nodes are closer to the target mobile node than the access points in most typical deployments, thus eliminating the need to deploy more access points or fixed anchors for the purpose of position determination. After obtaining an initial estimate of the position of the target mobile node, the target mobile node can serve as virtual anchors to estimate the positions of other mobile nodes, which can then be used to further refine the position estimate of the target mobile node.

Method for determination of wireless terminals positions and associated system and apparatus thereof

A station includes a reservation request transmitter, a bandwidth request transmitter, and a data transmitter. The reservation request transmitter transmits a reservation request to an access point during a contention slot specified by the access point. The contention slot is periodically allocated by the access point. The bandwidth request transmitter transmits a bandwidth request to the access point using a first allocated bandwidth allocated to the station as a response to the reservation request. The bandwidth request has a first data structure different from a second data structure of the reservation request, and includes information indicating a required bandwidth for transmitting a data to be transmitted. The data transmitter transmits the data using a second allocated bandwidth allocated to the station based on the required bandwidth.

Method for ensuring medium access in a wireless network

There is disclosed a technology which improves scalability in an overlay network system and which efficiently supplies a service with respect to a user, and according to the technology, for example, in a case where a mobile node () transmits an update message including a specific flow filtering rule to an HA () in order to receive a service concerning functions of multiple interfaces, the HA () interprets the flow filtering rule, specifies an HAto transfer a data packet from CNs (), an HA () to transfer a data packet from the CN () and an HA () to transfer a data packet from a CN (), and selectively transmits to each HA a message including information useful for the respective HA.

Overlay network node

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