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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175062 | Method and station for transmitting data in a radio communication system In a communication system, a first transmitting station transmits a transmission signal to a first receiving station for transmitting a sequence of data via a radio interface. The radio interface is monitored with respect to an interference signal from an interferen... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174979 | Method and device for controlling access to a communications network According to the invention, in order to control the access of traffic streams (VS) to the communications network (KN), an available capacity (VK), placed at the disposal of an access node (ZK) for transferring traffic streams (VS) to said communications network (KN)... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165239 | Method for coding data symbols Data symbols, transmitted by OFDM radio using at least two transmission antennae, are coded by a DSTBC coding and a DSTFBC coding. Two adjacent data symbols of a selected sub-carrier are provided for initializing a DSTFBC coding in a sub-carrier direction and are us... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160040 | Scheduling of measurement occasions of a mobile terminal In a method of downlink operation in a communication system having a network controller, a base station and a terminal, one communication channel is scheduled by the base station; and one communication channel is scheduled by the network controller. The terminal lis... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154993 | Method for providing alternative paths as a rapid reaction to the failure of a link between two routing domains The present disclosure relates to a method for providing substitute routes in rapid response to the failure of a link between two routing domains in a packet-oriented network. After the failure of a link has been identified, substitute routes are provided for routes... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150324 | Method and system for clipping a baseband input signal A method for clipping a baseband input signal filters the complex baseband input signal with a function H1 for forming a filtered first signal. To form a clipped signal in the baseband the filtered first signal is multiplied by a scaling factor. By a sign... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144703 | Method to reduce the transmission latency in GSM/EDGE delay-sensitive applications A transmitting peer transmits radio blocks over a radio interface from within a transmit window. A receiving peer receives the radio blocks within a receive window, and in case of a not correctly received radio block, sending back a NACK (Not Acknowledged) signaling... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130741 | Method for resource allocation with rectangular bursts A method is provided for allocation downlink bursts in a data region of a OFDMA data system, such data region having along one axis thereof increasing logical sub channel numbers and along another axis thereof increasing OFDMA symbol numbers, and wherein the burst a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130689 | Method and device for the dynamic setting up and control of temporarily formed communications groups with secure transmission A method and a device are provided for the dynamic setting up and control of temporarily formed communications groups with secure transmission, in which nodes potentially participating in a communications group are connected via a common transmission medium. The tra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121606 | Radio resource management in a mobile radio communication system A method operates a radio communication system in which network radio devices use radio resources in order to communicate with subscriber stations. A first network radio device performs direct tuning with a second network radio device using the respectively used rad... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121272 | Adapter for switching a telecommunication terminal, uses and method In one aspect, a device is provided. The device comprises at least one detection unit which generates an output signal in accordance with a status of a transmission path. Accordingly, switching of a telephone between two transmission paths is controlled in a simple ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115677 | Transmitter and receiver-side processing of signals transmitted or received with a smart antenna For transmitter-side processing of information it is decided in which direction of transmission signals for a receiver are to be transmitted, the direction of transmission being a linear combination of one of a number of antenna directional diagrams corresponding to... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112695 | Method for encoding data message K' for transmission from sending station to receiving station as well as method for decoding, sending station, receiving station and software Irregular LDPC codes have a construction which allows one to obtain a number of codes with different length from a single prototype code with a parity check matrix given by H=[Hz Hi], where Hz specifies the well-known zigzag pattern in the corresponding Tanner graph... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111637 | Method, arrangement and device for precompensation of crosstalk in a DSL MIMO system A method, an arrangement and a device for transmitting data via a plurality of channels. Additional data d are transmitted via at least one channel, and the transmission of the additional data d influences the transmission of the data in at least one of the further ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111625 | Method for detecting a message interface fault in a communication device In one aspect, a method for detecting the fault of a message interface in a communications device is provided, wherein the message interface comprises at least two layers which communicate with each other, a top layer accesses to the services of the lower layer and ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107615 | Method and device for checking the function for inverting the polarity on a subscriber line comprising a plurality of wires The invention relates to a method and to a device for testing the function for inverting the polarity on a subscriber connection line (TAL) comprising several wires (a, b), in order to connect at least one subscriber to a subscriber connection line (SLM), which comp... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107424 | Method for an random accesses in a local network Random accesses are regulated in a radio-assisted local network having at least one access point, a reachable radio station located in the radio coverage area of the at least one access point, at least one remote radio station located outside the radio coverage area... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107408 | Route maintenance and update based on connection identifier in multi-hop relay systems Connection ID (CID) assignment in multi-hop relay system can be used to perform routing. Using CID assignment as routing information in a multi-hop wireless relay system to maintain the routing structure is disclosed. In a CID cache scheme, a base station builds a C... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094581 | Method for the automatic configuration of communication relationships between communication units situated in a packet-oriented communications network In the inventive configuration of a communication relationship, a data packet includes the respective address information of the communication unit is generated by at least one remote communication device or by at least one communication unit that is assigned to the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094572 | Communications method and apparatus A method of maintaining a communication link between a network node and a mobile node of a communications network comprises providing at least two downlink transmission beams (A to D) and designating a first of the at least two beams as a primary transmission beam (... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094369 | Regulatable optical amplifier, and method for regulating an optical amplifier The invention relates to a regulatable optical amplifier which has at least two series-connected amplifier groups, each amplifier group having a regulating device. Connected upstream of the optical amplifier is a power monitor device for detecting changes in the inp... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089883 | Method for controlling transmissions between neighboring nodes in radio communications system and access node thereof At least one request between neighboring access nodes in a radio communications system is transmitted after verifying a class of the at least one request being transmitted between the neighboring access nodes, where the class assigned by an access node indicates a p... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078057 | Centralized congestion avoidance in a passive optical network In one aspect, a method for congestion avoidance in a passive optical network having an optical line terminal communicatively connected to a plurality of optical network termination devices is provided. A dynamic bandwidth allocation information is periodically requ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068513 | Determining load measure for network element The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for determining (e.g., calculating) a load measure by a network element (e.g., Node B or any other network element) for optimizing information traffic in communication networ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059033 | Patch antenna A patch antenna has a primary radiator, a dual microstrip feed line configured to utilize corner-feeding to enable substantially diagonal radiating modes, and at least two parasitic patches that are arranged adjacent and on opposite sides to the primary radiator. | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054740 | Method for encoding data blocks Prior to transferring to a radio communication system, at least one data block is encoded according to predetermined quality-of-service requirements with the aid of a first code. Subsequently, the data block, encoded by the first code, is further encoded according t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046671 | Method and apparatus for adapting data to a transport unit of a predefined size prior to transmission An apparatus and a method for adapting data in a communications system to be transmitted from a sender to a receiver, to a transport unit of a predefined size involve representing said data as a combination of bits over a finite field, wherein said data comprises of... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040963 | Method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in an OFDM transmission system The Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in an OFDM transmission system is reduced based on a complementary parity coding in which the coding rules are derived from an appropriate auto-correlation property of transmitted symbol sequences. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031714 | Using a cache of outgoing packet identifiers to recover from a protocol error in GTP-u A process of using a cache of outgoing packet identifiers to recover from a protocol error includes assigning a receive identifier associated with a user entity to a traffic stream at a receive node. The receive identifier is sent to a transmit node. The transmit no... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027261 | Method for tracking network parameters Network parameters are tracked in a communication network, particularly in a packet-based IP network. A traffic matrix for the network is regularly ascertained and a blocking probability for traffic subject to an access control is determined from a current traffic m... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019341 | Method for the provision of data via a pilot channel of a radio communication system A method provides first data via a pilot channel of a radio communication system with the pilot channel with the data transmitting information data on available access possibilities. To provide the first data, second data received from at least one terminal is used,... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014410 | Automatic packet protection forwarding to an MPLS network by a dual-homed ethernet bridge A method and a system for forwarding Ethernet packets by an Ethernet bridge in an Ethernet Layer 2 VPN network is provided. The method includes: notifying the first Ethernet bridge about the primary internal port associated with the receiving MAC-address and to the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010160 | System for combining output signals of two base stations A transmitter unit which is disposed between the first base station and the antenna arrangement contains a device for aggregate signal forming, a D/A converter and a transmission power amplifier. The first base station is connected on the output side to the device f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006259 | Real-time audience monitoring, content rating, and content enhancing A method, system, and computer-readable medium for collecting usage information in real-time for a computing device receiving digital content for presentation, such as to enable various types of real-time content modifications or content-related service enhancements... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005045 | Method for operating radio communication system, including sending station and receiving station thereof In a radio communication system, at least a first frequency band is subdivided into C radio resource units which are allocable for radio transmissions between radio stations and terminals. Each radio resource unit has at least two adjacent subcarriers, for allocatio... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000282 | Cooperative relaying using dirty paper coding A method for transmitting a signal in a wireless network includes sending a first signal from a first source to a first intermediate station. A second signal is sent from a second source to a second intermediate station. The first signal is additionally received by ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987288 | Method and arrangement for routing data packets in a packet-switching data network The invention relates to the routing of data packets comprising a target address in a packet switching data network. According to the invention, a first and second transmission path are assigned respective traffic distribution weightings in a routing table for indiv... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983567 | Method and system for polarization modem dispersion compensation The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling a PMD compensator (2). For this purpose, a measuring signal (MS) is branched off from an already compensated optical data signal (ODSK) and supplied to a polarization adjuster (2). The outp... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975199 | Relay-assisted HARQ transmission system A method for transmitting data from a source to a destination. The method includes: transmitting the data from the source to both the destination and a relay station within a first transmission; decoding the data in the first transmitting at both the relay station a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962143 | Method and apparatus for call content interception within a communications network A method is used to intercept call contents for provision of the contents to a monitoring authority for example the police or security services. The method identifies a network device in a bearer path to act as an intercept access point. This device is then instruct... | 06/14/2011 |
