Author: claimsbot

1. A method of wireless communication comprising:
at a user equipment, transmitting a first data packet during a first subframe of a radio frame;
receiving a single data packet in a third subframe of the radio frame, the single data packet comprising the first data packet and a second data packet transmitted from one of a base station and a relay node during a second subframe, the second data packet comprising a first HARQ signal from the base station for a previously transmitted data packet; and
retransmitting the previously transmitted data packet during a fourth subframe of the radio frame based on the first HARQ signal.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the single data packet comprises a analog super-positioning of the first and the second data packets.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein transmitting a first data packet comprises transmitting a second HARQ signal.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the single data packet comprises the first and the second HARQ signals.
5. A method of wireless communication comprising:
receiving a first data packet at a relay node, the first data packet being transmitted from a user equipment during a first subframe of a radio frame;
receiving a second data packet at the relay node, the second data packet being transmitted from a base station during a second subframe of the radio frame;
at the relay node, constructing a user equipment HARQ indicator indicating a success or failure of receiving the first data packet at the relay node and a base station HARQ indicator indicating a success or failure of receiving the second data packet at the relay node;
from the relay node, transmitting a single HARQ signal based on the user equipment HARQ indicator and the base station HARQ indicator; and
from the relay node, transmitting a single data packet in a third subframe of the radio frame, the single data packet comprising the first and the second data packets.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first data packet comprises a first HARQ signal relating to success or failure of a previous transmission from the base station.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the base station constructs the success or failure of the previous transmission from the base station using the first HARQ signal in the single data packet.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein the second data packet comprises a second HARQ signal relating to success or failure of a previous transmission.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user equipment constructs the success or failure of the previous transmission from the user equipment using the second HARQ signal in the single data packet.
10. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
receiving again the first data packet and the second data packet if the single HARQ signal indicates a failure at receiving the first data packet at the relay node or the second data packet at the relay node.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the relay node transmits the single data packet if the single HARQ signal indicates a success at receiving the first data packet at the relay node and the second data packet at the relay node.
12. The method of claim 5, wherein the relay node constructs the single data packet using analog network coding, wherein the relay node constructs the single data packet by super-positioning an analog version of the first and the second data packets received at the relay node.
13. The method of claim 8, wherein transmitting a single data packet comprises forwarding the first and the second HARQ signals received at the relay node.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising, at the relay node, receiving a previously transmitted data packet from the user equipment based on the first HARQ signal.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising, at the relay node, receiving a previously transmitted data packet from the base station based on the second HARQ signal.
16. The method of claim 5, wherein the relay node constructs the single data packet using digital network coding.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the relay node constructs the single data packet by independently demodulating, decoding and XORing the first and the second data packets as received at the relay node.
18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:
receiving a first HARQ indicator from the user equipment along with the first data packet; and
receiving a second HARQ indicator from the base station along with the second data packet.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising forwarding the first and the second HARQ indicator while transmitting the single data packet.
20. A method of wireless communication comprising:
transmitting a first data packet from a base station during a first subframe of a radio frame, wherein a second subframe of the radio frame is allocated to a user device for transmission of a second data packet;
at the base station, receiving a single data packet in a third subframe of the radio frame, the single data packet comprises the first data packet and the second data packet from the user device;
extracting the second data packet, the second data packet comprising a HARQ indicator from the user device;
from the base station, transmitting a next data packet if the HARQ indicator from the user device indicates a success of a previous transmission from the base station; and
from the base station, transmitting a previously transmitted data packet if the HARQ indicator from the user device indicates a failure of the previous transmission from the base station.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising constructing the single data packet using analog network coding.
22. The method of claim 20, further comprising constructing the single data packet using digital network coding.
23. A network component comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a first data packet and a second data packet, the first data packet being transmitted from a user equipment during a first subframe of a radio frame, the second data packet being transmitted from a base station during a second subframe of the radio frame;
a transmitter configured to transmit a single data packet in a third subframe of the radio frame, the single data packet comprising the first and the second data packets; and
a feedback provider configured to construct a single HARQ signal indicating a success or failure of receiving the first data packet and the second data packet, wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the single HARQ signal.
24. The network component of claim 23, wherein the first data packet comprises a first HARQ signal relating to success or failure of a previous transmission.
25. The network component of claim 23, wherein the second data packet comprises a second HARQ signal relating to success or failure of a previous transmission.
26. The network component of claim 23, wherein the network component is configured to encode the single data packet using digital network coding.
27. The network component of claim 23, wherein the single HARQ signal indicates a failure if there is a failure in receiving either the first data packet or the second data packet, and wherein the single HARQ signal indicates a success if there is a success in receiving both the first data packet and the second data packet.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A heat conductive elastomer composite comprising 100 volume parts of a mixture containing 100 parts by mass of a hydrogenated thermoplastic styrenic elastomer (E), 100 to 600 parts by mass of a softener for rubber having a kinematic viscosity of between 50 and 500 centistokes (cSt) at 40\xb0 C., and 1 to 100 parts by mass of an olefinic resin, with 40 to 400 volume parts of a covered magnesium oxide as a heat conductive filler being added thereto, wherein said hydrogenated thermoplastic styrenic elastomer (E) is a hydrogenated product of block copolymer (Z) consisting of block unit(s) (S) of a polymer of styrenic monomer and block unit(s) (B) of a polymer of a conjugative diene compound, said elastomer (E) having a weight-average molecular weight in the range of between 150,000 and 500,000, and a styrenic monomer content in the range of between 20 and 50% by mass, said covered magnesium oxide being a magnesia clinker having a surface covered with an inorganic substance andor an organic substance, with said magnesia clinker being an inactivated magnesium oxide.
2. A heat conductive elastomer composite in accordance with claim 1, wherein said magnesium oxide being a magnesia clinker covered with an inorganic substance andor an organic substance have (has) a water-absorption rate by a humidity test of below 1.5% by mass, and a new Mohs hardness of below 10.
3. A heat conductive elastomer composite in accordance with claim 1, wherein the deflection temperature under load of said olefinic resin is in the range of between 80 and 140\xb0 C.
4. A heat conductive elastomer composite in accordance with claim 2, wherein the deflection temperature under load of said olefinic resin is in the range of between 80 and 140\xb0 C.

1. An adapter for retaining a pacesense electrode, comprising:
a housing having at least one cavity corresponding to the shape of a pacesense electrode; and
the housing being formed from a dielectric material.
2. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the cavity is sized so that when the pacesense electrode is pressed into the cavity there is an interference fit between the pacesense electrode and cavity.
3. The adapter of claim 2, wherein the pacesense electrode is attached to the adapter by a fastener.
4. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the cavity has a size and shape corresponding to the size and shape of the pacesense electrode.
5. The adapter of claim 4, wherein the pacesense electrode is attached to the adapter by a fastener.
6. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the adapter is a unitary structure.
7. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the adapter has a clam shell configuration.
8. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the adapter has a first portion and a second portion.
9. The adapter of claim 8, wherein the first portion is a mirror image of the second portion and the cavity is formed when the first portion is attached to the second portion.
10. The adapter of claim 1, wherein the cavity has first apertures for receiving electrodes on the pacesense electrodes.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A reconfigurable antenna comprising:
an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is substantially non-conducting and a second state in which the gas within the enclosure forms an electrically conductive plasma;
wherein at least one pair of adjacent enclosures in the array is arranged such that configuring the pair of enclosures in the second state results in an electrical connection, between a first electrode associated with one of the enclosures of the pair and a second electrode associated with the other enclosure of the pair, through electrically conductive plasma of at least one of the enclosures of the pair.
2. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 1 wherein the array of interconnected gas enclosures comprises a substantially planar m\xd7n array of enclosures.
3. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 1 wherein the reconfigurable antenna is operable in a plurality of different modes of operation by altering, from mode to mode, which of the enclosures are configured in the first state and which of the enclosures are configured in the second state.
4. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 1 wherein a given one of the enclosures is controlled between the first and second states by applying signals to first and second electrodes associated with the given enclosure so as to result in the first and second electrodes being electrically connected through electrically conductive plasma of the given enclosure.
5. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 1 wherein the array of interconnected gas enclosures comprises:
an upper layer;
a lower layer; and
a plurality of sidewalls configured between the upper and lower layers so as to define the enclosures, the enclosures being formed between the upper and lower layers and being separated from one another by one or more of the sidewalls.
6. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 5 wherein a common electrode is shared between a given one of the enclosures and another of the enclosures adjacent to the given enclosure, the common electrode passing through one of the sidewalls which separates the given enclosure from the adjacent enclosure.
7. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 5 wherein at least one of the upper layer, the lower layer and the sidewalls comprise glass.
8. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 1 wherein a given one of the enclosures comprises a walled enclosure having a top, a bottom and at least four sides.
9. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 8 wherein the four sides of the given enclosure have respective electrodes passing therethrough.
10. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 5 further comprising a radio frequency absorbing substrate adjacent the lower layer.
11. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 5 further comprising a backplane arranged adjacent to the lower layer.
12. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 11 wherein the backplane comprises a substrate having a plurality of control elements formed thereon, each control element being associated with an electrode of the array of interconnected gas enclosures, and supplying a control signal thereto for controlling at least one of the enclosures between the first and the second states.
13. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 12 wherein the backplane is separated from the lower layer by a groundplane.
14. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 13 wherein the control elements comprise conductive vias configured to pass through respective apertures in the groundplane.
15. The reconfigurable antenna of claim 13 wherein the backplane further comprises a plurality of conductive traces coupled to respective ones of the control elements.
16. A communication device comprising:
a transceiver element comprising at least one of a transmitter and a receiver; and
a reconfigurable antenna coupled to the transceiver element;
the reconfigurable antenna comprising an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is substantially non-conducting and a second state in which the gas within the enclosure forms an electrically conductive plasma;
wherein at least one pair of adjacent enclosures in the array is arranged such that configuring the pair of enclosures in the second state results in an electrical connection, between a first electrode associated with one of the enclosures of the pair and a second electrode associated with the other enclosure of the pair, through electrically conductive plasma of at least one of the enclosures of the pair.
17. The communication device of claim 16 wherein the transceiver element comprises an antenna controller and a radio frequency section.
18. The communication device of claim 17 wherein the antenna controller is operative to control the states of the respective enclosures of the reconfigurable antenna to provide a desired antenna configuration.
19. The communication device of claim 17 wherein the radio frequency section is configured for at least one of providing radio frequency signals to the reconfigurable antenna and receiving radio frequency signals from the reconfigurable antenna.
20. A method of operating a reconfigurable antenna comprising an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is substantially non-conducting and a second state in which the gas within the enclosure forms an electrically conductive plasma, the method comprising the steps of:
selecting an operating mode for the reconfigurable antenna; and
configuring particular ones of the enclosures in the first state and other ones of the enclosures in the second state to support the selected operating mode.