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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131204 | SELECTIVELY GRANTING A FLOOR DURING SET-UP OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION WITHIN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM An embodiment is directed to an application server configured to set-up a communication session within a wireless communications system. The application server receives, from a session originator, a request to initiate the communication session with a set of session tar... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131183 | INTERACTING WITH A SUBSCRIBER TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE BASED ON PASSIVE BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBSCRIBER In an embodiment, an application server is configured to manage privacy settings of a subscriber for one or more social networking services. The application server determines a set of privacy settings (e.g., a manually configured or default set of privacy settings) of t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131006 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST PATTERN CLASSIFICATION Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing data discrimination using dimensionality reduction techniques. Particularly the Sparse Matrix Transform (SMT) is applied to more efficiently determine the Fischer Discrimination vector for a given dataset.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130713 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION Systems, methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for voice activity detection in a single-channel or multichannel audio signal are disclosed.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING BODY IMPEDANCE BASED ON BASEBAND SIGNAL DETECTION Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for measuring body impedance based on baseband signal detection in analog domain. Proposed methods and apparatus are able to measure an impedance of human body based on sub-Nyquist sampling of signals. The p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129562 | ASSOCIATION RULES BASED ON CHANNEL QUALITY FOR PEER-TO-PEER AND WAN COMMUNICATION Techniques are provided for association decisions by a user equipment (UE) or the like. In one example, there is provided a method that may involve discovering a peer UE, and determining a first metric for the peer UE. The method may further involve determining a second... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129473 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CURRENT CONSUMPTION OF AMPLIFIERS WITH POWER CONTROL Apparatus and method for reducing the current consumption and increasing the efficiency of an RF power amplifier (PA), according to which the load, connected to the output stage of the PA, tuned dynamically or statically for each level of the desired output power. By do... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129457 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE A method of wireless communication includes monitoring coexistence issues among supported radios in a User Equipment (UE). The method includes configuring a UE with first and second filter configurations. The first filter configuration covers a first frequency band, for... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128175 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR ORIENTATION-SENSITIVE RECORDING CONTROL Systems, methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for orientation-sensitive selection and/or preservation of a recording direction using a multi-microphone setup are described.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128166 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR HEAD TRACKING BASED ON RECORDED SOUND SIGNALS Systems, methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for detecting head movement based on recorded sound signals are described.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128165 | SYSTEMS, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DECOMPOSITION OF A MULTICHANNEL MUSIC SIGNAL Decomposition of a multichannel signal using direction-of-arrival estimation, a basis function inventory, and a sparse recovery technique is disclosed.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128160 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND CAPTURING AND REPRODUCING WITH MULTI-MICROPHONES Systems, methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for three-dimensional sound recording and reproduction using a multi-microphone setup are described.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128109 | NOISE ESTIMATION FORWIRELESS COMMUNICATION Techniques for deriving and using noise estimate for data reception in a wireless communication system are described. A noise estimate may be derived for each packet received in a data transmission. Data detection may then be performed for each packet using the noise es... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128054 | SINGLE PATH DETECTION AND EQUALIZER OPTIMIZATION An algorithm to detect single path channel conditions and reduce the span (number of taps) of the equalizer in order to mitigate the performance degradation caused by noisy equalizer taps is disclosed. The algorithm provides two novel components comprising single path s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128035 | LOW POWER ULTRA WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVERS Low-power transmitter and/or receiver devices are provided by sacrificing time and/or frequency diversity in exchange for lower power consumption. When channel conditions indicate that time and/or frequency spreading are unnecessary for transmissions, a transmitter may ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127985 | ROBUST TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Depending on... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127978 | RANGE EXTENSION TECHNIQUES FOR A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Techniques for extending transmission range in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a receiving station determines the frequency error between a transmitting station and the receiving station based on one or more initial packet transmissions and corrects this frequency e... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127956 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED NON OPTIMIZED HANDOVER This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for non-optimized handoffs for wireless communication. For example, the disclosure may be applied to enhance non-optimized handoff from a long-term evolution (LTE) network to an evolved high rate packet data (eHRPD... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING WIRELESS NETWORK PACKET RESOURCES TO WIRELESS TERMINALS A method in which a network apparatus 210 transmits a single assignment message comprising common assignment information directed to plural wireless terminals. The single transmitted assignment message can be used to enable channel assignment to be initiated for ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127931 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL POWER PRIORITIZATION A method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a transmission power is prioritized between an access channel and a second channel. Additionally, the access channel and the second channel are transmitted simultaneously.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127930 | UPLINK DATA ARRIVAL RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE User equipment (UE) transmits an access response to a random access procedure (RACH) preamble message to acquire an uplink grant from a node of a wireless communication system. The access response provides an uplink grant to the UE for a request for authorization to tra... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BEAMFORMING FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Techniques to support beamforming for stations in a wireless network are described. A station may support beamforming with implicit or explicit feedback by having capabilities to transmit and receive sounding frames, responding to training request by sending a sounding ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127270 | DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON GLOBAL MOTION This disclosure describes techniques for estimating a depth of image objects for a two-dimensional (2D) view of a video presentation. For example, a plurality of feature points may be determined for a 2D view. The plurality of feature points may be used to estimate glob... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127267 | DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON GLOBAL MOTION This disclosure describes techniques for estimating a depth of image objects for a two-dimensional (2D) view of a video presentation. For example, an initial indication of depth (e.g., an optical flow) may be determined for a 2D view. The initial indication of depth may... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126771 | CIRCUITRY FOR DETECTING A TRANSIENT Circuitry configured for detecting a transient is described. The circuitry includes an analog-to-digital converter that obtains a first voltage sample at a first time and a second voltage sample at a second time. The circuitry also includes a slope detector coupled to t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126761 | CIRCUITRY FOR CONTROLLING A VOLTAGE Circuitry configured for controlling a voltage is described. The circuitry includes a transient detector that detects a transient in a first frame. The circuitry also includes a controller coupled to the transient detector. The controller determines a duty cycle during ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110531 | DEFECT AND YIELD PREDICTION FOR SEGMENTS OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Defect prediction information is determined for a segment of an integrated circuit layout. Marker information is obtained, for example from user input into a computer design tool, where the marker information defines the segment. A segment can be defined to be any arbit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A VISUAL PASSWORD SCHEME A system and method for inputting a password. The system and method operates to associate unique non-descriptive graphical features with unique text-based characters. The system and method operates to receive in sequence, a plurality of text-based characters. The system... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110367 | Architecture and Method for Eliminating Store Buffers in a DSP/Processor with Multiple Memory Accesses A method and apparatus for controlling system access to a memory that includes receiving first and second instructions, and evaluating whether both instructions can architecturally complete. When at least one instruction cannot architecturally complete, delaying both in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110234 | MULTI-PROTOCOL BUS INTERFACE DEVICE A bus interface device is configured to receive data from one or more devices via a bus. The bus interface device is also configured to process first data received via the bus according to a transport protocol of the bus. The bus interface device is further configured t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110115 | Exchanging Data Associated With A Communication Session Within A Communications System In an embodiment, an access terminal includes at least first, second and third functional layers, whereby the first functional layer (e.g., a MAC layer) attempts to a data packet on behalf of the third functional layer (e.g., an application-layer) to an application serv... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110037 | Methods and Apparatus for a Read, Merge and Write Register File Processor systems utilize register files coupled to a processor's memory system and execution units and process various data types that are mixed with single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions to improve processor performance. To reduce processor pipeline sta... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110036 | MEDIA FILE CACHING FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO CONSERVE RESOURCE An electronic device for media file caching for conserving resources is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The electronic device monitors requests for a media file, stores media file information and determines whethe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110025 | CODING ORDER-INDEPENDENT COLLECTIONS OF WORDS In general, techniques are described for order-independent coding of a collection of words. An apparatus comprising a compression unit and an interface may implement the techniques. The compression unit constructs a digital search tree to store two or more words. A pref... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109993 | Performing Visual Search in a Network In general, techniques are described for performing a visual search in a network. A client device comprising an interface, a feature extraction unit and a feature compression unit may implement various aspects of the techniques. The feature extraction unit extracts feat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109356 | Method and Digital Circuit for Recovering a Clock and Data from an Input Signal Using a Digital Frequency Detection In a particular embodiment, a digital circuit includes a frequency detection circuit operative to compare information related to transitions between sequential samples of a received signal. The frequency detection circuit is further operative to generate a control signa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108282 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL AND INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS MICROPHONE TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS A wireless microphone receiver is used to control transmission power and/or channel configuration of wireless microphones which communicate audio data to the wireless microphone receiver. In some embodiments the wireless microphone receiver searches for available channe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108239 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CELLS IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERENCE Methods and apparatuses are provided that include determining measurement values for base stations based on signal measurements obtained over resources protected from interference by neighboring cells. The protected resources can be determined based on at least one of d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108224 | USING QUALITY OF SERVICE TO CONTROL HARDWARE FOR LOW BATTERY SCENARIOS Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods for reducing power consumption of a mobile device while maintaining QoS of communication links. If the available battery power is below a predefined threshold, then several power-saving techniques may be tr... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108213 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING AN OVER-THE-AIR ACTIONABLE MESSAGE Provided are exemplary apparatus and methods for transmitting an over-the-air actionable message. In an example, a mobile device includes a detector to identify an over-the-air actionable messaging command that has a destination device identifier corresponding to a seco... | 05/03/2012 |
