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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179877 | Method and apparatus for creating an enhanced medium access control packet data unit for enhanced transport format combination selection in wireless communications Efficient enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC) selection methods and apparatus support flexible radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) size and medium access control (MAC) layer segmentation. Methods for filling an enhanced medium access control (M... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179839 | Method for controlling the data rate of a circuit switched voice application in an evolved wireless system An apparatus and method of transmitting a circuit switched (CS) voice application via an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH), implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The method includes receiving a grant; performing an E-TFC selection procedure based ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175014 | Method and apparatus for using a relay to provide physical and hybrid automatic repeat request functionalities Methods and apparatus are described for performing automatic repeat request (ARQ) and hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) assisted ARQ procedures in a relay-based wireless communication system. Triggers for radio link control (RLC)/ARQ retransmissions and RLC/ARQ status reporting are... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165152 | Method and apparatus for prioritizing logical channels A method and apparatus are disclosed for prioritizing logical channels when a new transmission is performed. Logical channel resources are allocated for available data to a plurality of logical channels. A maximum bit rate (MBR) credit (i.e., token) is decremented i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155067 | Method and apparatus for signaling the release of a persistent resource A method and apparatus for signaling the release of a persistent resource in long term evolution (LTE) are disclosed. An indication of the release of a downlink (DL) persistent resource is received by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) from an evolved Node-B (e... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145253 | Method and apparatus for performing WTRU state transitions A method and apparatus for performing state transition of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which supports enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) in the CELL_FACH state is disclosed. Uplink data is transmitted via an E-DCH while operating in a CELL_FACH state. A r... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144664 | Method and apparatus for performing a serving HS-DSCH cell change A method and apparatus for performing a serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change from a source cell to a target cell are disclosed. A radio network controller (RNC) may pre-load a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with HS-DSCH configurati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139609 | Method and apparatus for supporting segmentation of packets for uplink transmission A method and apparatus for segmenting medium access control (MAC) service data units (SDUs) creates enhanced MAC-es PDUs in the enhanced MAC-e/es sub-layer by concatenating MAC SDUs received from the logical channels. An enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC)... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135435 | System information updates in LTE A method and apparatus for receiving system information updates includes a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) receiving a system frame number. The WTRU also receives system information messages in a modification period. The modification period has a boundary dete... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8116274 | Method and apparatus for reporting a buffer status A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) reports a buffer status as part of scheduling information for enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transmissions. For reporting the buffer status, the WTRU calculates a total amount of data available across all logical channels ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107998 | System information updates in LTE A method and apparatus for receiving system information updates includes a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) receiving a system frame number. The WTRU also receives system information messages in a modification period. The modification period has a boundary dete... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107991 | Method and apparatus for selecting enhanced dedicated channel transport format combination in CELLFACH state and idle mode A method and apparatus for selecting an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) in Cell_FACH state and idle mode are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits a random access channel (RACH) preamble and receives an ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094682 | Method and apparatus for generating radio link control protocol data units A method and apparatus are used to generate radio link control (RLC) protocol data units (PDUs). A data request for a logical channel is received as part of an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) selection procedure in a medium ac... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8072899 | Method and apparatus for measuring and reporting a rank and a precoding matrix for multiple-input multiple-output communication A method and apparatus for measuring and reporting a rank and/or a precoding matrix for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication are disclosed. A metric indicating a channel condition is measured and a rank is selected based on the metric. The metric may ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068511 | Method and apparatus for sending feedback for a downlink shared service and estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units A method and an apparatus for sending a signal on a contentious feedback channel for a downlink shared service and for estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. When a transmission criterion associated with a physical random acces... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8032164 | Method and apparatus for communicating short message service and supplementary services messages Methods and apparatus for enabling short message service (SMS) and supplementary services (SS) in a long term evolution (LTE) network via evolved packet system (EPS) mobility management (EMM) over the LTE control plane are described. In one embodiment, the radio res... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7978592 | Method and apparatus for signaling in multiple user one-slot operation in wireless communication Disclosed are multiple embodiments of method and apparatus to facilitate Multiple Users Reusing One Timeslot (MUROS) operation in wireless communications. A pair of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may be multiplexed onto a timeslot using a same pulse format.... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7944884 | Voice and data communication services using orthogonal sub-channels A method for using orthogonal sub-channels (OSCs) in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). A capability report is received from the WTRU, including an indication whether the WTRU supports OSCs. A determination is made whether to use OSCs for the WTRU and the resu... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7539238 | Extended algorithm data estimator A method of data estimation for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system or any other system using an extended algorithm (EA) in preference to a truncated algorithm (TA). The EA avoids implementation errors by choice of proper extende... | 05/26/2009 |
