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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185126 | Communication control method, radio base station, and radio control station A communication control method includes the step of restricting the number of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of mobile stations or a resource of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of the mobile stations when both communication channel s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185125 | Transmission rate control method, mobile communication system and radio base station A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: selecting, at the radio base station NodeB, increase-allowed mobile stations whose uplink user data transmission rate can be increased at a predetermined TTI; equally dividing, at the ra... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184739 | Power series digital predistorter and control method therefor A power series digital predistorter includes a combiner which combines an output from a linear transmission path with an output from an odd-order distortion generating path, an analog-to-digital converter which converts a feedback signal from an output of a power am... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184594 | Handover processing method, eNB and network communication system thereof Embodiments of the present invention includes a handover processing method, a source eNB, a neighboring eNB and a network communication system. In one embodiment of the handover processing method, a source eNB selects a target eNB from neighboring eNBs that can acce... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184573 | Base station, mobile station, and synchronization channel transmission method A base station communicating with a mobile station in a radio communication system by using OFDM for downlink is disclosed. The base station includes a sequence selecting unit configured to select multiple synchronization signal sequences; a synchronization signal g... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184552 | Communication terminal, control device, communication system, and program A communication terminal providing optimal communication services between content providers comprising a property management table with an appraised value registered for each of a predetermined set of communication media properties for various types of communication... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180391 | Combined communications system, prohibiting-signal transmitting apparatus, wireless base station, and method A prohibiting-signal transmitting apparatus for use in a combined system such that there is at least a partial overlap between bands allocated to an old communications system and bands allocated to a new communications system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a u... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180049 | Signature schemes using bilinear mappings Methods and systems are provided for generating and verifying signatures of digital messages communicated between signers and verifiers. Using bilinear mappings, such as Weil or Tate pairings, these methods and systems enable generation and verification of efficient... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179850 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and radio network controller capable of changing communication states A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179818 | Proxy terminal, server apparatus, proxy terminal communication path setting method, and server apparatus communication path setting method In a proxy terminal or server a path setting can be performed by a server apparatus and a path setting that includes, as a relay point, a proxy terminal arbitrarily specified by a user or the proxy terminal located in a local network to which the user belongs, witho... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176033 | Document processing device and document processing method A document processing method, including: a collection step of collecting access history of a user; a document similarity computing step of computing a document similarity, which indicates similarity between documents, by one user pattern which indicates a plurality ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175663 | Radio base station and mobile station Provided is a mobile station UE equipped with a broadcast information generation unit (11) which generates broadcast information containing tag information formed by a plurality of bits. The tag information has a value defined only by a plurality of first bit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175602 | Mobile communication system, user apparatus and method A disclosed user apparatus is for use in a mobile communication system including a macrocell and a closed cell wherein unspecified users are allowed to access the macrocell and specified users are allowed to access the closed cell. The user apparatus includes a meas... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175060 | Communication device and communication method A communication device and a communication method capable of implementing high-speed and high-quality communication processing such as handover. A mobile communication terminal is configured such that, in cases where it is judged by a power measurement unit that a r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170548 | User equipment terminal and radio communication system A user equipment terminal for selecting a standby cell based on a specified priority of cell selection includes a determining unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from a base station apparatus and determine whether priority information of cell selection i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169976 | Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller A transmission rate control method includes: measuring, at a radio base station, a reception power of a DPCH transmitted from the mobile station; extracting, at the radio base station, a transmission data block size of the uplink user data from an E-DPCCH; acquiring... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169954 | Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller A transmission rate control method for controlling, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data, in a radio communication system capable of controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data based on an absolute transmission rate transmitted via an... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169929 | Mobile communication method, mobile communication system, and radio base station A mobile communication method includes: causing a cell under control of a radio base station to determine an initial granted value when an uplink user data transmission channel is set up between a mobile station and the cell under the control of the radio base stati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169928 | Base station, mobile station, and channel quality information reporting method A channel quality information reporting method includes a setting step, wherein the number N of blocks for which the mobile station reports channel quality information among the M blocks is set in accordance with an amount of traffic; a reporting step, wherein the b... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169905 | Packet communication method and receiving-side apparatus A packet communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, at a predetermined sublayer of a receiving-side apparatus, a reordering timer, when receiving a second packet before receiving a first packet in a case where a sequence... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166291 | System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166053 | Method and apparatus for schema-driven XML parsing optimization Schema-driven XML parsing techniques allow an XML parser to optimize its parsing process by composing parse and to dynamically generate parsing code components based on XML schema definition for the targeted XML document. These techniques reduce the XML parsing time... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165579 | Communication system and communication method A communication system and communication method with which an incoming call processing can be prevented from falling into a loop state when a communication mode for the incoming call destination is determined. When an inquiry reception unit receives an inquiry signa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165529 | Mobile station, radio base station, mobile communication system, and method of transmitting and receiving broadcast information A radio base station for establishing a signaling control channel and a shared data channel for a mobile station and communicating with the mobile station includes a broadcast information generating unit configured to generate broadcast information including one or ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165051 | Radio terminal, radio communication system, and radio communication method A radio terminal includes a radio interface configured to allow radio communication with a radio base station, and a controller configured to control switching between a wake-up state in which the radio interface is turned on and a sleep state in which the radio int... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161499 | Data processing device and data processing method A data processing method using a data processing apparatus on a transmitting side having an application for performing processing using an internal device set in the data processing apparatus, a driver that accepts an access request to the internal device from the a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161068 | Access control system An access control system and method is disclosed. The access control system and method includes a terminal and a server. The terminal determines whether to allow access to a requested website and generates a request to the server to download information from the req... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160595 | Base station apparatus and communication control method In a base station apparatus for transmitting a L1/L2 control channel to a user apparatus to communicate with the user apparatus, a plurality of combinations of a modulation scheme and a channel coding scheme which include a plurality of types of coding... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160521 | Mobile communication terminal and method for controlling a plurality of receiving apparatuses mounted on mobile communication terminal Signals are received with a wider power range even through the use of existing AGCs than by conventional mobile communication terminals. In an AGC on one antenna side, in order to enable reception of a signal at a higher level, a target TA of a dynamic range DA of t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160048 | Method for accessing hybrid network, and gateway apparatus, wireless terminal and communication system thereof A method for accessing a hybrid network including a wide area network and a distributed network, a gateway apparatus, a wireless terminal and a gateway communication system are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of the wireless terminal which is an access ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160017 | Radio resource selecting method, mobile station and radio base station A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of; (A) notifying, from a radio base station (eNB) to a mobile station (UE), a first cycle and information on the uplink radio resource; and (B) determining, at the mobile station (U... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156327 | Revocation of cryptographic digital certificates A distributed certificate authority includes a CA and a number of Sub-CAs (2610). The Sub-CAs have secret certificate validation data, but different data are provided to different Sub-CAs for each certificate. If a Sub-CA is compromised, the Sub-CA validity p... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155681 | Base station, mobile station, and cell determination method One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a load measurement unit configured to measure traffic status in each of the cells; a selection probability computation unit con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155675 | Broadcast information transmission method, radio base station and mobile station A radio base station (eNB) transmits a change notification to the plurality of mobile stations (UE), when repeatedly transmitting the plurality of segments, and when having changed a content of the broadcast information formed of the plurality of segments, size of e... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155654 | Transmission rate control method, mobile communication system and radio base station A transmission rate control method including: notifying, from the mobile station UE to the radio base station NodeB, a data amount in a transmission buffer of the mobile station UE; determining, at the radio base station NodeB, a maximum allowable value that can be ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155595 | Method for iterative interference cancellation for co-channel multi-carrier and narrowband systems In a co-channel deployment of narrowband and multi-carrier technologies (e.g., a femtocell and a macrocell), a method provides cancelling of interference which treats the co-channel signals as desired signals and enhances each of them iteratively. At each iteration,... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155193 | Moving picture encoding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture encoding program, and moving picture decoding program An object of the present invention is to increase efficiency of information compression in coding and decoding. A moving picture encoding apparatus 10 of the present invention has a motion vector predicting part for performing, based on a temporal relation am... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155064 | Communication system, communication device, communication method, and program A disclosed communication system includes a base station and mobile stations. The base station includes a group management unit configured to classify the mobile stations into groups according to signal quality information transmitted from the mobile stations, a sto... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155013 | Synchronized multi-link transmission in an ARQ-enabled multi-hop wireless network A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for synchronized multi-link transmission in an ARQ-enabled multi-hop wireless network. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing pre-transmission of a packet to hops to enable a base station and the plurality of ho... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151249 | Operating system monitoring setting information generator apparatus and operating system monitoring apparatus Disclosed is an operating system monitoring setting information generator apparatus including: a monitoring setting information management unit configured to store monitoring setting information used for monitoring of an operating system monitoring apparatus; a moni... | 04/03/2012 |
