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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185637 | Control of session parameter negotiation for communication connection The invention relates to a session control entity, method and a computer program product for determining a first media type indicated for a session associated with a dialogue and determining a second media type indicated for an early media associated with the dialog... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8166063 | Query routing in distributed database system A query message is received at a first server of a plurality of servers of a first server type, at least part of data contained in the query message is transformed to a transforming result, based on the transforming result and a first lookup table at said first serv... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165035 | ACK/NACK DTX detection In a first aspect of the invention there is a method, apparatus, and executable software product for receiving scheduling information, determining that at least one downlink allocation of the scheduling information was not received, sending a reply to the received s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160647 | Filter system for use in co-site and control method thereof A co-site including at least two antenna/base transceiver station pairs operating on different frequency bands has a filter system that includes a first filter including a low band control port, a high band control port, a low band diversity port, and a high band di... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150443 | Overload indicator for adjusting open loop power control parameters The exemplary embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus, and program to determine actions to be taken upon receiving overload indicators. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: determining if more than a first predetermined n... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150398 | Handover of a user equipment with forwarding and reusing a user equipment configuration It is described a method for handing over a User Equipment from a first to a second base station of a telecommunication network. The described method includes establishing a first connection between the User Equipment and the first base station, arranging a current ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149958 | Low par zero auto-correlation zone sequences for code sequence modulation In one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a method includes: randomly selecting a set of sequences with each sequence having sequence elements, each sequence element having a frequency selected from constellation points on a unit circle in a complex plane, where the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149756 | Method, apparatus and computer program product providing randomized relay network A relay node is provided for being interposed between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The relay node includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control unit. A transmission signal transmitted by the at least one source node is received by t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144696 | Mobile management entity operating in communications network and selection method therefor A selection method implemented as an algorithm in a mobile management entity (MME) operating in a communications network. The method includes receiving a unique identifier of a subscriber operating within the network and determining, based on the unique identifier, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139939 | Upgradeable passive optical network A passive optical network is upgraded by a subsystem PON2 for additional high speed communication. The additional subsystem PON2 enables independent high speed communication between a new type of optical network terminations with second downstream time... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126459 | Controlling registration in a communication system A method for controlling registration in a communication system is provided. In the method, a request for registration of a user relating to a subscriber is received in a network entity. The method further comprises providing the network entity with control informat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122313 | Acknowledgment packet Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a receiving station in a wireless network may receive a plurality of Medium Access Control Packet Data Units (MPDUs) from a transmitting station. Each of the plurality of MPDUs may includ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121979 | System and method for replication and synchronisation Embodiments of the invention provide a replication and synchronization mechanism that is peer to peer and multi-threaded. Embodiments of the invention may further enable a useable alternative service in the event of a loss of communications between replicas and a fu... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121597 | Method of registering and deregistering a user The invention comprises a method for registering and deregistering user equipment from a communications system and comprises the steps of sending a request to a first node to register or deregister the user equipment from or to the communications system, determining... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121082 | DTX detection when ACK/NACK is transmitted with scheduling request A method for signaling between a mobile apparatus (10) and a network node (12) is described. The method includes generating a message that includes a scheduling request. Determining whether a second indication (e.g., an acknowledgment) is to be transmi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121052 | Framework for internetworking between WMAN and WLAN networks According to one general aspect, a method of using a customer premises equipment (CPE) to represent a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS) is described. Wherein the CPE and the BS are part of a first wireless network based upon a first networking standard, and... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121047 | Access technology indication for Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 A Local Mobility Anchor/Agent (LMA), on seeing a Proxy Binding Update (PBU) with a same Network Access Identifier (NAI) but with a different access technology indication or interface identifier can assign a unique prefix to a mobile node (MN) via a PBAck message. Th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117294 | Managing of network equipment An exemplary embodiment of a management apparatus can be provided. For example, the exemplary managing may include a profile device/arrangement and a process device/arrangement. The profile device/arrangement can include at least one process profile. Furthermore, th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116278 | Spectrum sharing between OFDM and non-OFDM radios A signal is generated in the time domain (e.g., GSM, CDMA waveform), digitally sampled at a rate N per symbol interval T over an observation window of length JT to achieve a vector of JN samples. The JN samples are transformed via a DFT of size JN to the frequency d... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116247 | Adaptive mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of mesh networks In a wireless mesh network of network nodes, there is identified a first subset of the nodes that have a direct connection to at least one end user, and a second subset of nodes that are necessary to maintain connections among the end users. The first subset is excl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111712 | Apparatus, method, system and program for communication Embodiments provide an apparatus, method, and storage medium wherein a communication identifier of a session or part of a session is provided in a package or added to a message. An apparatus may check, based on the communication identifier of package or the received... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111609 | Mapping resource blocks into subchannels According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a first wireless node in a wireless network, a number N of resource blocks available for transmitting data within a cell, the N resource blocks each including V resource block orthogonal freque... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090858 | Systems and methods for encapsulation based session initiation protocol through network address translation Provided are improved SIP communication systems and methods for traversing firewalls, NATs, and ALGs. An encapsulation protocol is used to preserve the original SIP message by encapsulating the original SIP message in visible encapsulation protocol of layers 4 | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081717 | Delay estimation for a timing advance loop An apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver and a timing adjustment unit that contains at least two channel impulse response estimators. The at least two channel impulse response estimators include an on-time estimator and at least one of an early estimator and... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077680 | Packet-switched handover A packet-switched handover from a first cell to a second cell in a cellular network is discussed. Packet-switched services are provided for a mobile station in the first cell based on a set of information relating to provision of packet-switched services and a proto... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073332 | Photonic cross-connect A photonic cross-connect includes a plurality of ingress WS-switches with drop outputs outputting WDM drop signals including odd channels and a plurality of egress WS-switches for receiving WDM add signals including add channels. Wavelength selective elements in a d... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059765 | Method and apparatus to detect random access channel preamble A method (and operation of a computer program and an apparatus) includes receiving a signal over a wireless channel; correlating the received signal with a reference sequence and providing a correlation output; processing the correlation output to detect a presence ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055820 | Apparatus, system, and method for designating a buffer status reporting format based on detected pre-selected buffer conditions An apparatus, system and method for increasing buffer status reporting efficiency and adapting buffer status reporting according to uplink capacity. User equipment is configured a monitor a usage of a plurality of buffers, detect one of a plurality of pre-selected c... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054789 | Aggregated harq report A system and method include a base station configured to provide centralized data transmission scheduling for at least one relay operatively connected to the base station configured to provide centralized data transmission scheduling for at least one relay operative... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045926 | Multi-transceiver architecture for advanced Tx antenna monitoring and calibration in MIMO and smart antenna communication systems Exemplary embodiments of system and method are provided for measuring signal amplitude, phase and/or delay offsets between multiple transmit signals fed through the transmit signal processing chains and wirelessly transmitted over the transceive antennas of separate... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032137 | Radio network access mechanism A method of registration in a telecommunications system by a mobile station, which system includes a home location register for maintaining subscriber data and supports a first network, such as GSM, and a second network, such as GPRS. The home location register main... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023951 | Dynamic coverage and capacity solution for cellular radio network A cellular communication system is provided. According to one embodiment, the communication system includes at least one cell. The at least one cell is defined by a coverage layer defining a coverage of the at least one cell and a capacity layer at least partly defi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014352 | Adaptive transport format uplink signaling for data-non-associated feedback control signals One or more dynamically selected signaling bits are added in a downlink from a base station to user equipment (UE) so that the UE can use an adaptive “symbol space” for uplink feedback (CQI/HARQ) signaling and know from the extra added downlink signaling bits an... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009782 | Downscaling system bandwidth A larger second bandwidth is fitted to a first transmission bandwidth by blanking PRBs at one or both edges of the larger second bandwidth. A first set of control channels is mapped to unblanked PRBs of the second bandwidth using a restricted set of physical cell id... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009620 | Variable header types for persistent resource allocation in a wireless network Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless receiver configured to receive a persistent resource allocation, the persistent resource allocation providing a periodically recurring resource,... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7984356 | Acknowledgments or negative acknowledgments by relay stations and subscriber stations Various example embodiments are discloses. According to one example embodiment, a method may include sending a packet to both a relay station and a destination station in a wireless network, receiving a relay station acknowledgment (ACK) or negative acknowledgment (... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984183 | Distributed database system using master server to generate lookup tables for load distribution A state change in a network comprising a master server among a plurality of servers is determined, at the master server, a first lookup table is calculated, said first lookup table indicating respective partitions of a second lookup table distributed among active se... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983682 | Context based connectivity for mobile devices A system for automatically creating a preferred wireless connection medium order in a wireless communication device (WCD) for connecting to a network. A server on the network detects when a new device has entered a designated space, identifies the device, determines... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970653 | Electronic authorisation A method and system for identifying and transmitting data entities in a wireless communication system including at least one mobile user terminal. The method includes the steps of identifying a primary service to be provided, identifying a plurality of data entities... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969936 | Radio terminal, module for such a unit and method for transmitting associated control channels The invention relates to a method for improving the quality of control signalling based on signalling messages controlling speech or data transmission over an air interface between at least two radio terminals of a radio communications system, said speech or data be... | 06/28/2011 |
