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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179852 | Base station, subordinated station and transmission method thereof A base station (BS), a subordinated station (SS) and the transmission methods thereof for use in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) network are provided. The BS stores resource allocation information about the MIMO network and an SS list, and generate a super frame a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179441 | Hand-off monitoring method and hand-off monitoring system A hand-off monitoring method is provided for monitoring a space divided into several monitoring regions. Each of the monitoring regions is monitored by a surveillance camera. The hand-off monitoring method comprises receiving a warning signal from a location and ide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175018 | Data scheduling module, method, and computer program product thereof for a wireless communication apparatus A data scheduling module, a data scheduling method and computer program product thereof for a wireless communication apparatus are provided. The data scheduling method comprises the following steps: determining that the frame length of a second data transmission int... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160826 | Method and system for estimating use time of electric appliances A method and a system for estimating use time of electric appliances are provided. In the present method, all time points corresponding to an appliance power on event or an appliance power off event are obtained according to a value-time curve of at least one electr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157566 | Adjustable hierarchical scoring method and system An adjustable hierarchical scoring method is disclosed. A hierarchical scoring structure for speech-sound data is generated. Historical data of speech-sound scoring for the speech-sound data is retrieved from a speech-sound practice database while a professional sco... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149803 | Apparatus for a beacon-enabled wireless network, transmission time determination method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof An apparatus for a beacon-enabled wireless network, a transmission time determination method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The apparatus is located within the coverage area of the first equipment. The second equipment is located withi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145451 | Digital filtering system, method, and recording medium thereof A digital filtering system, method, and recording medium thereof are described. In the system, firstly a sensor obtains an analog physiological signal, a quantizing module transforms the physiological signal to a digitalized frequency domain signal, and then a speci... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134964 | Network address assigning and allocating method and routing method for long-thin wireless network A network address assigning and allocating method and a routing method for a long-thin wireless network are provided. First, a plurality of nodes in the long-thin wireless network is classified into a plurality of clusters, in which nodes ranging from a child node o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127276 | Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for generating and utilizing a feature code to monitor a program Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for generating and utilizing a feature code to monitor a program are provided. The program is run in a secure environment at the beginning. The program calls a function through an application program interface. A retur... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126704 | Apparatus, server, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing and recognizing a sound signal An apparatus, a server, a method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing and recognizing a sound signal are provided. The apparatus is configured to sense the sound signal of the environment and to dynamically derive and to transmit a feature ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126393 | Gain adjustment apparatus, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for a multiple input multiple output wireless communication system A gain adjustment apparatus, a gain adjustment method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. The MIMO wireless communication system comprises source antennas, destinatio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126081 | Signal modulation apparatus, signal modulation method, and computer program product A signal modulation apparatus, a signal modulation method and a computer program product thereof are provided. The signal modulation apparatus is used in a communication framework consisting of a plurality of communication systems. The communication systems comprise... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121538 | Communication system and handshake method thereof A communication system and a handshake method thereof are provided. The communication system has a service path and comprises a BS, at least one MS, and an MS. One of the at least one RS is located within a coverage of the BS. The MS is located within a coverage of ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116329 | Relay station, base station, power management method, and computer readable medium thereof for use in a wireless mesh network A relay station, a base station, a power management method, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The relay station is located within the coverage area of the BS. The relay station comprises a receiving/transmission module and a determination module. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115771 | System and method for multilevel simulation of animation cloth and computer-readable recording medium thereof A system for multilevel simulation of an animation cloth is provided. The system includes a multilevel area generation module, a curvature calculation module, a curvature comparison module, and a dynamic simulation module. The multilevel area generation module divid... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112644 | Dynamic voltage scaling scheduling mechanism for sporadic, hard real-time tasks with resource sharing A dynamic voltage scaling scheduling method executes one of the steps. When one task in the delayed task set requires for being executed, a working voltage required for executing the task is increased, and the task is removed from the delayed task set; when one task... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111775 | Communication device adopted for multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system and method thereof A communication device adopted for a multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system and a method thereof are provided. The MIMO-OFDM system comprises the communication device and a corresponding communication device, and they ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107963 | Mobile communication apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for early measuring signal of a base station A positioning module positions a location of a mobile communication apparatus. A processor determines whether the location falls within a predetermined range, wherein the predetermined range is equal to or greater than an effective communication coverage of a neighb... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107884 | Base station, subordinated station and transmission method thereof A base station (BS), a subordinated station (SS) and the transmission methods thereof for use in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) network are provided. The BS stores resource allocation information about the MIMO network and an SS list, and generate a super frame a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107423 | Real-time positioning system, method therefor, and device containing computer software A real-time positioning system, a real-time positioning method, and a device containing computer software are provided. The system includes a coordinator and at least one router. The coordinator carries out a signal interconnection with each router of a first layer ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8073849 | Method and system for constructing data tag based on a concept relation network A system for constructing data tag based on a concept relation network is disclosed. A tagging module collects input tags from users to create a tag table accordingly. A count of each tag used is calculated and compared with a predefined threshold value to generate ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073825 | Data correction apparatus, data correction method and tangible machine-readable medium thereof A data correction apparatus, a data correction method and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The data correction method comprises the following steps: receiving a plurality of packets; determining that all of the packets are erroneous packets a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059604 | System and method of measuring heterogeneous network mobile communication apparatus and recording medium thereof A signal measurement method for a mobile communication apparatus supporting multiple transmission interfaces to perform communication transmission in a heterogeneous network environment, system and a recording medium thereof. Changes in the signal strength of an act... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059157 | Method and system for digital image stabilization A method and a system for digital image stabilization are provided for a digital image sequence. The present method calculates local motion vectors between two adjacent images by an interlaced Gray-coded bit-plane matching. An appropriate global motion vector is obt... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055663 | Systems and methods for measuring behavior characteristics Systems and methods for measuring behavior characteristics. For at least one specific user, a first concern score for respective key terms is calculated according to use frequency of respective key terms of network content corresponding to the specific user and all ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055189 | Wireless communication system, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for transmitting data based on a frame structure of a multi-hop relay standard A wireless communication system, a method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for transmitting data based on a frame structure of a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a base station (BS), a relay station (R... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046106 | Controlling method and system for saving energy of building A controlling method and a controlling system for saving energy of a building are provided. In the present method, a user environment requirement is obtained first. Then, a plurality of cover ratios of a sunshade device on an opening of a building is defined, and ac... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041584 | Method and system for patient risk level evaluation A method for patient risk level evaluation is provided, implemented with a remote medical care center. The remote medical care center connects with a plurality of health care locations at various locations over a network. Patient data of a plurality of patients is r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032466 | System, method, and computer readable medium for micropayment with varying denomination A system, a method, and a computer readable medium for micropayment with varying denomination are disclosed. The method utilizes a secret value, a public information, a number base parameter, a bit parameter, and merged one-way hash chains to calculate a root for pr... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027689 | Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting bandwidth allocation based on a multi-hop relay standard A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting a bandwidth (BW) allocation based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS and at least ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014369 | Adaptive power management methods and systems for wireless networks Adaptive power management methods and systems for a first station and a second station in a wireless network. Each station operating in the power-saving (PS) mode adaptively determines a “listen interval” (LI) according to residual power state, quality-of-servic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000964 | Method of constructing model of recognizing english pronunciation variation A method of constructing a model of recognizing English pronunciation variations is used to recognize English pronunciations with different intonations influenced by non-English native languages. The method includes collecting a plurality of sound information corres... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996209 | Method and system of generating and detecting confusing phones of pronunciation A method of generating and detecting confusing phones/syllables is disclosed. The method includes a generating stage and a detecting stage. The generating stage includes: (a) input a Mandarin utterance; (b) partition the Mandarin utterance into segmented phones/syll... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994938 | Method and apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space A method and an apparatus for deciding a traveling direction in a space are provided. After receiving a starting signal from a mobile apparatus, a network node of a network apparatus generates a request signal and sends it to a processing apparatus. Then the process... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987115 | Advertisement selection systems and methods for internet articles Advertisement selection systems and methods for internet articles are provided. A personal advertisement agent generates an article characteristic value according to an internet article edited by a content editor. An advertisement server selects at least one of the ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978668 | Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for simultaneously establishing links with a plurality of nodes in a wireless network are provided. A processing module determines whether a mesh network configuration message of the apparatus has space to p... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970343 | Method, wireless communication system, tangible machine-readable medium, and communication apparatus for transmitting and relaying channel descriptor based on a multi-hop relay standard A method, a wireless communication system, a tangible machine-readable medium, and a communication apparatus for transmitting and relaying a channel descriptor based on a multi-hop relay standard are provided. The wireless communication system comprises a BS and at ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969951 | Power-saving wireless network, packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network and computer readable media A power-saving wireless network, a packet transmitting method for use in the wireless network, and computer readable medium therefor are provided. The wireless network comprises a PAN coordinator, a receiving node and a transferring node. When the transmitting node ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961760 | Method and system for network synchronization A method and a system for network synchronization are provided. In this method, when a node attempts to join a network, a parent node is searched from all other nodes already joined the network per specific time interval. If the parent node can be found, sync-inform... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957358 | Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for transmitting data via a plurality of network interfaces An apparatus, a method, a computer program, and a computer readable medium for transmitting data via a plurality of network interfaces are provided. The apparatus derives statuses of transmission media and then transmits data based on the statuses. In addition, each... | 06/07/2011 |
