Motorola Corporation

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Salomon Serfaty

Baruh Hason

Gabi Ofir

Aharon Elmaleh

Guy Holtzman

Mark Shahaf

Mordechay Cohen

Donald G Newberg

Ovadia Grossman

Moshe Ben-Ayun

David Bar-On

Leslie G Gustafson

Stephen S Gilbert

Gadi Shirazi

Izak Avayu

Haim Geller

Ariel Luzzatto

Roger M Vilmur

Eliezer Fogel

Rafael Carmon

Eilon Eyal

Uzi Zakai

Amiram Frish

Guy Shimon

Doron Nadjar

Nitzan Tzifroni

Eyal Brami

Alexander Shmoukler

Eli Ariviv

Liorah Abel

Shimon Dick

Gabi Ofri

Efraim Rushinek

Kalman Kaufman

Rami Nissim

Ronen Digmy

Ofer Levy

A method and apparatus are provided for positioning an unmanned robotic vehicle (URV). The URV captures a set of one or more of image and non-image information of an object while positioned at a first position, provides the set of image/non-image information to a server entity, in response to providing the set of image/non-image information, receives a three-dimensional (3D) model associated with the object, autonomously determines a second position based on the 3D model, and autonomously navigates to the second position. At the second position, the URV may capture further image and/or non-image information and, based on the further captured image/non-image information, autonomously determine, and navigate to, a third position. The steps of capturing further image and/or non-image information and, based on the captured image and/or non-image information, autonomously determining and navigating to further positions may be repeated indefinitely, or until otherwise instructed.

Method and apparatus for positioning an unmanned robotic vehicle

A method and apparatus are disclosed for setting an initial transmit power level of a deployable network that overlaps in coverage with a WAN. Multiple transmit power levels are determined. For each transmit power level, a geographical coverage area of the deployable network at an incident is determined based on a signal propagation model, a first set of mobile devices is determined that are within the geographical coverage area and that are involved in responding to the incident, and a second set of mobile devices is determined that are within the geographical coverage area, that are not involved in responding to the incident, and that may be interfered with by transmissions of the deployable network. A transmit power level of the multiple transmit power levels then is selected as the initial transmit power level based on the first and second sets of mobile devices determined for each transmit power level.

Method and apparatus for transmit power control by a deployable network in a wireless communication system

A method and a system for operating a subscriber unit to seamlessly switch between a trunked mode operation (TMO) and a direct mode operation (DMO) in a communication system. The communication system includes one or more subscriber units communicating in trunked mode operation on a first communication channel via a base station and the subscriber units communicating in direct mode operation on a second communication channel via a direct mode gateway station. When the subscriber units communicate in the TMO and when the signal quality on the first communication channel is below the predetermined threshold, the subscriber units automatically switch to the direct mode operation. When the subscriber units communicate in DMO and when the signal quality on the second communication channel is below the predetermined threshold, the subscriber units automatically switch to the trunked mode operation.

Method and system for seamlessly switching between a trunked mode operation and a direct mode operation

A method and services network element are provided that provide for queued admissions control in a wireless communication system by receiving a bearer establishment request associated with a user equipment, determining that a cell where the user equipment is located is congested, in response to determining that the cell is congested, creating a bearer establishment request record (BERR) associated with the user equipment and the bearer establishment request, wherein the BERR comprises priority information associated with the BERR, and adding the BERR to a queue, wherein the queue is associated with a cell serving the user equipment, wherein the BERR is positioned in the queue based on the priority information, and wherein bearer establishment requests associated with BERRs in the queue are submitted based on a position of the BERRs in the queue.

Method and apparatus for queued admissions control in a wireless communication system

Traffic light control using destination information in calendar data of a user device includes storing calendar data including destination information in a plurality of user devices in a community. A next step includes obtaining the calendar data by a community authority coordinator operable to communicate with the user devices through a community network. A next step includes controlling at least one traffic light in the community in response to the destination information. Optionally, the traffic light can be controlled in response to time, date, location, route, and number of vehicles, to alleviate future road congestion.

Traffic light control using destination information in calendar data of a user device

A first Mobile Repeater System (MRS), configured to serve as an access point associated with a Basic Service Set (BSS), broadcasts a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID). Other Mobile Repeater Systems (MRSs) join the BSS to create a local ad hoc trunked site in which each of the MRSs are communicatively coupled via at least one WLAN communication link. These MRSs include the first MRS and a second MRS. The first MRS can be configured to provide a control channel for communication with a first subscriber unit, and the second MRSs can be configured to provide a first trunked traffic channel for communication with the first subscriber unit.

Mobile repeater system based ad hoc trunked sites

A source rate associated with a video bit stream () and a channel () rate associated with an LTE environment can be identified. The video bit stream () can be a Scalable Video Codec (SVC) of an H.264/MPEG4 Advanced Video Coding. The channel () rate can be associated with one or more segment bandwidth () rates. An enhancement path from an enhancement profile () associated with the SVC can be determined. The enhancement profile () can include one or more cumulative source rates and an associated enhancement options. The enhancement options can be a frame quantity, frame size, and a frame quality (). The enhancement path can be a subset of nodes of the enhancement graph (). The channel () rate can be matched to a cumulative source rate to a node within the enhancement path. One or more Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units () with the appropriate enhancement values can be conveyed.

Source rate and channel rate matching for scalable video transmission

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for increasing calling capacity in a carrier by dividing timeslots on the carrier into sub-slots and for conveying usage and access rights information for each sub-slot on a carrier. A base station configures a control signal that is associated with each of a plurality of timeslots on a carrier. Each of the plurality of timeslots is divided into sub-slots and specific fields in the control signal are associated with each sub-slot. The base station provides, to mobile stations, at least one of a usage marker or access rights information through the control signal. The mobile stations use the usage marker or access rights information to determine whether transmission of voice traffic and control signaling is permitted on each sub-slot.

Method and apparatus for conveying usage and access rights information for each sub-slot on a carrier

A method and apparatus is disclosed for increasing calling capacity in a carrier using enhanced Terrestrial Trunk Radio (TETRA) protocols. The method includes transmitting, by a base station to at least one mobile station, a permission signal for an assigned timeslot on a carrier, wherein each timeslot is divided into at least two sub-slots. The method also includes configuring a control signal that is associated with each of the plurality of timeslots. Specific fields in the control signal are associated with each sub-slot on each of the plurality of timeslots. The method further includes providing usage markers through the control signal. Usage markers values are divided into ranges, each range used to identify a timeslot or a sub-slot assignment on the carrier. The base station sends a time advance value to the mobile station to indicate when transmission from the mobile station is to begin.

Method and apparatus for increasing call capacity on a carrier

A terminal () and method for operation thereof for use in a wireless communication system (), the terminal including a plurality of antennas () and a plurality of receiver chains () each including an associated one of the antennas, the terminal being operable to receive a signal including a plurality of time divided portions including a first portion () and a second portion (), characterized in that the terminal is operable in a manner such each of the plurality of receiver chains is active when the first portion of the signal is being received and at least one of the receiver chains is inactive when the second portion of the signal is being received.

Terminal for use in a wireless communication system and a method of operation thereof

An alerting system () for a communication device () is provided. The alerting system is designed to operate in a plurality of operating modes. The alerting system includes a transducer () and an electromechanical switch (). The transducer transforms electrical impulses into vibrations. The electromechanical switch couples the transducer to a first component () of the communication device in a first operating mode. Further, the electromechanical switch couples the transducers to a second component () of the communication device in a second operating mode.

Alerting system for a communication device

A method of estimating the distance between a first wireless communication terminal and a second wireless communication terminal includes: receiving a signal at the first terminal, processing the received signal including performing a demodulation operation to produce a demodulated signal; and resolving the demodulated signal into a plurality of components corresponding to different path length components included in the received signal; identifying which of the resolved components corresponds to a shortest path length; and for the identified component, computing a time of travel from the second terminal to the first terminal.

Measuring distance using wireless communication

A method for use in a mobile communication system for estimating the location of a target mobile station (MS) which includes receiving signals from the target MS (N) at a plurality of receivers (MS, MS, MS) in different locations and calculating the location of the target MS (N) from information obtained from the received signals, wherein at least one of the receivers (MS) is a searching MS and wherein the calculation of location is carried out by the searching MS (MS). The method may involve the target MS and the searching MS or MSs communicating by a direct mode of operation (DMO) link. The searching MSs may conveniently have GPS attachments. A mobile station which may be used as the target MS or as a searching MS and a system incorporating the same is also disclosed.

Mobile communications stations methods and systems

A method by which a plurality of users share access to a resource such as a common communications channel. Each user is assigned a priority and is provided with a non-uniform probability distribution function corresponding to that priority, with the sum of the several non-uniform probability distribution functions being uniform. Whenever a user wishes to access the resource, the user selects a random number according to its non-uniform probability distribution function and computes an access time based on the selected random number.

Optimized random access scheme for a shared response

The invention concerns a method and apparatus for providing frequency control of an oscillator circuit. The apparatus includes an oscillator (9), an error estimator (10) f.sub.r producing a set of error estimates and a median filter (11) for producing a median value from the set of estimates. The median filter (11) is connected to the oscillator (9) which is responsive to the median value to vary its frequency thereby reducing the error.

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