Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8442010 | Method and apparatus for identifying mobile network protocol capabilities A method and apparatus for improving handover in an IEEE 802.21 compliant communication network. A query is transmitted from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a media independent handover (MIH) server (MIHS). The WTRU includes a target point of attachment (... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8437758 | Method and apparatus for performing media independent handover measurement and reporting The method and apparatus are used for media independent handover (MIH) measurement and reporting in wireless communications. A periodicity for measurement and reporting is set on the MIH function through an MIH protocol message or an MIH SAP primitive and on the lin... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8433355 | Method and apparatus for generating loud packets to estimate path loss In a wireless communication system, (e.g., a wireless local area network (WLAN)), including a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) and a coordinating node, (e.g., an access point (AP)), path loss is estimated by transmitting a loud packet from a firs... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432893 | RLAN wireless telecommunication system with RAN IP gateway and methods A Radio Local Area Network (RLAN) includes a Radio Access Network Internet Protocol (RAN IP) gateway that enables connectivity to the public Internet. The system may serve as a stand-alone system or be incorporated into a UMTS used with conventional Core Network, pa... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432794 | Method and apparatus for selecting multiple transport formats and transmitting multiple transport blocks simultaneously with multiple H-ARQ processes A method and apparatus for selecting multiple transport formats and transmitting multiple transport blocks (TBs) in a transmission time interval simultaneously with multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a wireless communication system are dis... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428522 | Reliability detection of channel quality indicator (CQI) and application to outer loop power control A method for performing outer loop power control in wireless communications is disclosed. A channel quality indicator (CQI) message is transmitted by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU receives a power control command, the power control command being ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8427988 | Method and apparatus to reduce radio resource overhead associated with intermittent traffic A method and apparatus for No-TX mode for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and Node B that suspends the transmission of power control updates and associated signaling over dedicated uplink and downlink channels. Triggers and signals between the WTRU and Node ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8416904 | Base station synchronization A method and apparatus of time synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a wireless communication system includes receiving an indication of a timing associated with a synch burst, where the synch burst is from a mastercell having a better time synchronization q... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8412220 | Method and system wherein timeslots allocated for common control channels may be reused for user traffic A network apparatus for use in a wireless time division duplex (TDD) code division multiple access communication system includes a processor configured to allocate a time slot in a frame for a plurality of cells for transmission of data over a forward access channel... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8412157 | Method and apparatus for security protection of an original user identity in an initial signaling message A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes a control plane (C-plane) packet data convergence protocol (C-PDCP) layer which performs ciphering of a signaling message. The C-PDCP layer is activated upon power up of the WTRU and initial security parameters are lo... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411651 | Media independent multi-rat function in a converged device A communication device configured to facilitate a mesh network includes a media independent mesh function (MIMF) configured to exchange media independent mesh information between peer mesh entities. ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411636 | Method and system for autonomous channel coordination for a wireless distribution system A method and system for autonomous channel coordination for a wireless distribution system (WDS) are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of access points (APs) and the APs communicate each other via a WDS. A coordinated channel group (CCG... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8407534 | Method and apparatus for encoding channel quality indicator and precoding control information bits A method and apparatus for encoding channel quality indicator (CQI) and precoding control information (PCI) bits are disclosed. Each of the input bits, such as CQI bits and/or PCI bits, has a particular significance. The input bits are encoded with a linear block co... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8406811 | Antenna and radio frequency unit for a wireless transmit/receive unit An antenna and radio frequency unit (ARFU) that is external to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes a radio frequency (RF) front end device and an antenna in communication with the RF front end device. The RF front end device is in communication with the... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8401196 | Method and apparatus for performing JRNSO in FDD, TDD and MIMO communications A method and apparatus for performing Joint Randomness Not Shared by Others (JRNSO) is disclosed. In one embodiment, JRNSO is determined in Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) using a baseband signal loop back and private pilots. In another embodiment, JRNSO is determin... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401094 | MIMO wireless communication method and apparatus for transmitting and decoding resource block structures based on a dedicated reference signal mode The transmission and decoding of resource blocks (RBs) transmitted via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna having a plurality of transmit antennas is disclosed. Each RB includes a plurality of resource elements (REs). Each RE is reserved for one of a com... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401036 | Quality of service based resource determination and allocation apparatus and procedure in high speed packet access evolution and long term evolution systems A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) and method are provided that process communication data in a hierarchy of processing layers including a physical (PHY) layer, a medium access control (MAC) layer and higher layers. A MAC layer transport format selection device... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400986 | Random access channel for OFDM-MIMO system In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) selects a random access channel (RACH) and a phase for a constant amplitude zero auto correlation (CAZAC) sequence for RACH tr... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8397299 | Method and system for enhancing flow of behavior metrics and evaluation of security of a node A method and system for enhancing flow of behavior metrics and evaluating security of a node are described. Instead of sending behavior metrics from a trustee node to a trustor node, the trustor node sends an evaluation function to the trustee node. The trustee node... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8391866 | Method and system for reselecting an access point A method for use in an access point includes receiving a request for a reselection message from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The reselection message is generated in response to the request and includes: at least one first identifier of one or more candid... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8391236 | Heterogeneous network handover-support mechanism Methods and mechanisms enhance heterogeneous media independent handover (MIH) between different link layer technologies. Embodiments include using an MIH proxy entity, MIH capable network controller, and an MIH server. Enhancements are made to the query phase, prepa... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8385482 | Start-up automatic frequency control (AFC) method and apparatus A method and apparatus for use in connection with wireless communication to adjust the frequency of an oscillator to synchronize with a received signal by correlating a synchronization code channel with training sequences to estimate relative offsets which are emplo... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385451 | Method and apparatus for improved spatial temporal turbo channel coding (STTCC) using eigen-beamforming The present invention is a method and apparatus for improving the performance of spatial temporal turbo channel coding (STTCC) used in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems called eigen-STTCC (E-STTCC) that employs eigen-beamforming to... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385319 | Method and apparatus of enabling multi band transmission A method and apparatus for enabling multi-band transmission includes transmitting a beacon on a first radio band and transmitting the beacon on a second radio band. The beacon includes coordination information for transmission on the first and second radio bands. | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385196 | Method and apparatus for supporting uplink starvation avoidance in a long term evolution system A method and apparatus for uplink (UL) starvation avoidance includes determining a current buffer status information. The current buffer status information is reported to an evolved Node B (eNB). A grant that includes a determination of a number of tokens a wireless... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8379694 | Simple and robust digital code tracking loop for wireless communication systems A simple and robust CTL is used for time tracking of multipath components of a spread spectrum signal transmitted over a wireless multipath fading channel. A digital code-tracking loop includes the implementations of despreading early and late data samples by use of... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379575 | Cognitive flow control based on channel quality conditions A system and method which improve the performance of a wireless transmission system by intelligent use of the control of the flow of data between a radio network controller (RNC) and a Node B. The system monitors certain criteria and, if necessary, adaptively increa... | 02/19/2013 |
| RE44010 | Modular base station with variable communication capacity The present invention provides a base station architecture that is modular in configuration, lowering the initial cost of implementing a new CDMA telecommunication system for a defined geographical region while allowing for future capacity. The scalable architecture... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8374609 | RRC messages and procedures A method for radio resource control (RRC) messaging. The messaging includes transmitting a RRC message upon partial completion of message transmission. The RRC message further comprises an information element (IE) that represents a failed or partially failed conditi... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8374190 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for providing high speed downlink packet access services A method and wireless multi-cell communication system for providing high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services. The system includes a radio network controller (RNC) in communication with a plurality of base stations. The RNC sends a control signal to at leas... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8374155 | Power loading transmit beamforming in MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems A method is disclosed for tuning a beamformed signal in wireless communications including a plurality of sub-carriers and a plurality of eigenbeams. The method includes adjusting a total gain of each of the plurality of sub-carriers and eigenbeams, and applying the ... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8369897 | Method and system of using smart antennas for backhauling A method and system for utilizing smart antenna in transmission of messages between nodes are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of nodes, and each node is capable of being connected to each other node. At least a portion of the nodes ar... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369860 | Sending and reducing uplink feedback signaling for transmission of MBMS data The present invention is related to a method and system for sending and reducing uplink feedback signaling by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) related to transmission of multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data over a high speed downlink packet acce... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369385 | Cancellation of pilot and traffic signals A method for removing selected signals from a received signal prior to decoding begins by receiving communication signals from a transmitter over a CDMA air interface. The received communication signals are input to a traffic signal cancellation system for canceling... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8364473 | Method and apparatus for receiving an encoded speech signal based on codebooks A method and apparatus for processing speech in a wireless communication system uses CELP speech encoded signals. A decoder receives encoded speech including a code index, a code index gain, a pitch lag, a pitch gain, and a line spectral pair (LSP) index. An innovat... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8364127 | Multi-node communication system and method of requesting, reporting and collecting destination-node-based measurements and route-based measurements A multi-node communication system and method used to request, report and collect destination-node-based measurements and route-based measurements is disclosed. The communication system may be a mesh network including a plurality of mesh points (MPs). In one embodime... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8359520 | Detection, avoidance and/or correction of problematic puncturing patterns in parity bit streams used when implementing turbo codes Detecting, avoiding and/or correcting problematic puncturing patterns in parity bit streams used when implementing punctured Turbo codes is achieved without having to avoid desirable code rates. This enables identification/avoidance of regions of relatively poor Tur... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8359065 | Methods and systems for providing efficient operation of multiple modes in a WLAN system A method and apparatus that applies medium access control (MAC) transmission opportunity (TXOP) protection for multiple mode operation in a WLAN system. In particular, MAC mechanisms are defined to support multiple mode CTS frames, and multiple mode CF-End frames se... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8356229 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) data are disclosed. For part 1 data encoding, a mask may be generated using a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) identity (ID) and a generator matrix with a maximum minim... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8352824 | Method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request processes per transmission time interval A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive on... | 01/08/2013 |
