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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185145 | Dynamic overhead channel power control Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically adjusting power allocated for overhead communications in a sector of a radio access network (RAN). An exemplary method involves (a) detecting a switch to RC4 for resource allocation in a given sector; (b) in r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185092 | Selective scanning for WLAN coverage by a multi-mode device Methods and systems are provided for selective scanning for WLAN coverage by a multi-mode device. In at least one embodiment, the multi-mode device determines whether it is both charging and authenticated via a wireless network that operates according to a first pro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184811 | Mobile telephony content protection In a digital content management system, a mobile device determines whether it is authorized to use digital content by sending, to a service provider, a hash value that has been pre-stored in the mobile device and that is associated with the digital content. The hash... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184598 | Low-cost internet-base-station (LCIB) radio-frequency (RF) adaptation using stationary transceivers Methods and systems are provided for implementing low-cost Internet-base-station (LCIB) radio-frequency (RF) adaptation using stationary transceivers. In an embodiment, an LCIB emits a pilot beacon having an adjustable transmission-power level. The LCIB repeatedly w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180407 | Automatic reduction of background wireless communication in a media player mode A method and system for conserving battery power in a portable communication device. When a user puts the device into a media player mode such as by invoking a media player application on the device, the device will automatically reduce the extent to which it engage... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180393 | Method and system for location-based restriction on application of cellular-PBX integration service A method and system for using location of a cellular wireless communication device (WCD) as a basis to restrict application of a cellular-PBX integration service. In one embodiment, a radio access network (RAN) serving the WCD receives a call request for the WCD, an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180388 | Methods and systems for improving session establishment with wireless communication devices Methods and systems for reducing the latency of instant communication session establishment are presented. According to various preferred embodiments, a RAN, may receive a setup request message via a packet-switched network. The RAN may determine, from a quality of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180381 | Method and system for reducing paging channel traffic A method and system for reducing an amount of traffic on a paging channel of a wireless communications system by holding a pending page message until a subsequent re-registration request and response cycle scheduled to occur within a threshold amount of time. A radi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180333 | Differential routing of communication-usage records Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method for differentially routing communication-usage records based on an identity of the base station that served the underlying communication. For example, if the base station is a home carrier base station, then the communic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180037 | Automated registration for mobile device reminders A system allows automated registration for reminders to be sent to a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone. A telephone number to use to register for an automated reminder is displayed in conjunction with an advertisement for an upcoming event. A user who views ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179884 | System and method for asymmetric communications and control in a wireless wide area network An access point for a wireless wide area network might receive a request from a wireless device to establish a session on the wireless wide area network. In response, the access point might establish a circuit switched uplink channel and a packet switched downlink c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179842 | Encapsulating upper layers of CDMA signaling between a multi-mode device and a signaling gateway Methods and systems are provided for encapsulating upper layers of CDMA signaling messages between a multi-mode device and a signaling gateway. In an exemplary embodiment, a multi-mode device has a CDMA mode and a Wi-Fi mode. In Wi-Fi mode, the device generates an u... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175550 | Method and apparatus for interference mitigation by removing a portion of the transmit signal Elimination of intermodulation interference in a wireless communication system by removing a portion of the spectrum of transmitted signals. According to a received indication of an occurrence of intermodulation interference experienced by a narrowband receiver, map... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170544 | Method and system for integrated management of base transceiver station (BTS) with wireless backhaul A base transceiver station (BTS) includes a radio access network (RAN) interface for communicating with mobile stations and a backhaul interface for communicating with a backhaul network. A RAN element management system generates RAN status information based on even... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169962 | Method and system for transmitting a voice mail indication to a mobile station A radio access network (RAN) receives a request to route a call from a caller to a mobile station, assigns a wireless traffic channel to the mobile station for the call, and detects a no-answer condition for the call (because a user of the mobile station does not an... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169952 | Method and system for selective application of cellular-PBX integration service A method and system for selectively applying a cellular-PBX integration service. When a radio access network (RAN) receives a call request seeking to set up a call for a cellular wireless communication device (WCD) that is operating in the coverage area of the RAN, ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169951 | Method and system for establishing wireless IP connectivity A method and system for establishing wireless IP connectivity, in which a wireless communication device (WCD) obtains a routable IP address during its registration with a radio access network, rather than first registering with the RAN and then subsequently requesti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165599 | Method and system for locating mobile stations using call measurement data A location of a mobile station is estimated based on wireless communications between the mobile station and a wireless telecommunications network. Call measurement data is obtained for a call involving the mobile station and a plurality of base station antennas. The... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160634 | Intelligent power control in a wireless network A method and system is disclosed for intelligent power control in a wireless communication system. In accordance with an example embodiment, a first device will operate in a dynamic-power state in which it transmits a power-increment command or power-decrement comma... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160619 | Dynamic paging concatenation based on page-type Exemplary methods and systems for paging a mobile station are disclosed herein. An exemplary method involves: (i) before transmission of a page to a mobile station by an access network, the access network (a) determining a page-type of the page to the mobile station... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160611 | Selective simultaneous communication with a wireless communication device based on location and mobility A radio access network (RAN) may base the number of wireless coverage areas that it uses for substantially simultaneous communication with a wireless communication device (WCD) on the location and/or movement of the WCD. Thus, for instance, if the WCD has been in a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160603 | Method and system for providing streaming media content to roaming mobile wireless devices A mobile device requests streaming media content while being served by a first radio access network in a market area. A content streaming system obtains the requested media content, adapts the media content using a first total bandwidth availability curve (TBAC) to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160034 | Dynamic determination of EV-DO control-channel bit rate based on forward-link-timeslot utilization, control-channel occupancy, and amount of buffered forward-link traffic data Methods and systems provide dynamic determination of a control-channel bit rate. An access node provides service on a carrier comprising active and idle timeslots, active timeslots comprising a data channel for carrying a control channel at a bit rate that can be se... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159987 | Method and system for embedding a data message in a pilot signal Disclosed herein is a method for data communication between a wireless-communication system and one or more wireless-communication devices. The wireless-communication system broadcasts a standard pilot signal over a pilot channel. The method comprises (a) the wirele... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156423 | Method and system for dynamically updating fixed resources on client station An intermediary such as a gateway will intercept a markup document being sent in a response message from a web server to a client station and will determine that the client station does not have stored locally the set of objects necessary to render the markup docume... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155634 | System and method for generating an alert signal when an additional data line between a packet-switched network and a wireless communications network should be installed The present invention provides methods and systems to determine whether to upgrade the infrastructure of a wireless communication network. The invention is directed to generating an alert signal indicating that an additional data line between a packet-switched netwo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155074 | Methods and systems for improving performance of applications using a radio access network Methods and systems for improving the performance of a radio access network (RAN) are presented. In particular, for a given WCD, a RAN may detect a pattern of forward link buffer occupancy and reverse link buffer occupancy that is indicative of the given WCD's rever... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150962 | Method and system for delivery of user-interface skins, applications and services for wireless devices Wireless devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants are automatically provisioned with a user interface skin, application logic, and/or wireless communications services based on demographics data acquired from the subscriber/user of the device. A co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150392 | Private wireless network integrated with public wireless network A private wireless network is able to provide wireless telecommunication services to subscriber mobile stations that also subscribe to a public wireless network. The private wireless network includes a private base transceiver station (BTS), a private mobile switchi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150344 | Method and system of planning a wireless telecommunication network A method and system are provided for planning a service provider network. At one or more low-cost Internet base stations (LCIBs) operating within a building, one or more wireless signals are detected. The wireless signals are provided by one or more macro base stati... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150024 | Methods and systems for setting a volume level of ringback media presented to a calling party Methods and systems are disclosed for setting a volume level of ringback media presented to a calling party. The method may include receiving at a ringback server an indication of ambient noise at a client device, using the received indication as a basis to set a vo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149774 | System, apparatus, and method for use of reserved PN-offsets to limit cellular wireless communications Disclosed in this document is an improved mechanism for notifying mobile stations that they should not seek to initiate a communication in a given wireless coverage area. The solution is to use a specially designated PN-offset as the indicator that a problem situati... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145254 | Dynamic adjustment of the pilot-channel, paging-channel, and sync-channel transmission-power levels based on forward-link and reverse-link RF conditions Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the pilot-channel, paging-channel, and sync-channel transmission-power levels based on forward-link and reverse-link RF conditions. In an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service on a carrier in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145185 | Method for communicating indoor location to an emergency service system A method for communicating location to an emergency service system. A wireless communication device (WCD) such as a cell phone attains a GPS location fix when outdoors and then uses a compass and pedometer to determine its direction(s) and distance(s) of travel reac... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144644 | Network-side setup of a packet-data communication session on behalf of a mobile station, followed by transfer of the communication session to the mobile station Methods and systems are provided for network-side setup of a packet-data communication session on behalf of a mobile station, followed by transfer of the communication session to the mobile station. A radio access network (RAN) receives from the mobile station an or... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140107 | Method and system for selective power control of wireless coverage areas In methods and systems for adjusting forward link transmit power of wireless coverage areas, forward link signal strength is observed to obtain a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or an observed frame error rate (FER) for the received signal. A determination is made w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140101 | Dynamic adjustment of forward-link traffic-channel power levels based on forward-link RF conditions Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of forward-link traffic-channel power levels based on forward-link RF conditions. In an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service on a carrier in a wireless coverage area. The base station computes ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140069 | System and method for determining the audio fidelity of calls made on a cellular network using frame error rate and pilot signal strength The present invention provides a method and system for defining the mean opinion score (MOS) as a function of frame error rate (FER) and pilot signal strength. In an embodiment of the invention, an entity receives MOS scores that have been obtained using subjective ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139585 | Method and system for controlling sessions from a subscriber terminal A method and system for providing users with the ability to control the configuration of data session initiated to connect terminals connected to the public-switched telecommunications network (“PSTN”) to services available on data networks. A legacy terminal ma... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139525 | Carrier selection based on type of packet flow Methods and systems are provided for carrier selection based on type of packet flow. Service is provided to access terminals on a plurality of carriers in a wireless coverage area. A request is received from a first access terminal. The request indicates that the fi... | 03/20/2012 |
