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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170030 | Locator resolution in communications networks A set of globally-reachable attachment registers is provided for objects in an internetwork of interconnected communications networks. “Objects” can be networks, hosts or terminals, or passive objects which themselves do not have a network interface. Each attach... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165574 | Method and apparatus for providing circuit switched domain services over a packet switched network A method of establishing a call to or from a mobile station (MS) operating in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) access network. An interface is established between the MS and a Packet Mobile Switching Center (PMSC), and the call is initiated after the network accepts a se... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165099 | Continuous packet connectivity (CPC) scheduler A base station establishes a data channel in an uplink between the base station and a user equipment, establishes a control channel in the uplink between the base station and the user equipment, and determines a gating configuration associated with the control chann... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8135337 | Scheduling in a wireless multi-hop relay network A wireless relaying network having a number of network nodes including a designated originating node, at least one relaying node, and at least two receiving nodes. The designated originating node transmits a pilot signal, and the relaying node(s) receives and forwar... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8098623 | Telecommunications frame structure accomodating differing formats A radio access network (RAN) (20) comprise a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30). The base station 28 comprises a transceiver (38) and a frame handler (40), the wireless terminal (30) comprises a transceive... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8059739 | Method and apparatus for correcting data transmission errors A wireless communication device corrects data transmission errors caused by the simultaneous transmission of multiple streams of data in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) network. The wireless communication device corrects data transmission errors by removing ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050005 | Automatic function with selectable fuse rating for single fuses and fuse panels A programmable fuse and fuse panel are described. Unlike conventional fuses and fuse panels, the trip values of the fuses of the panel—i.e., the current values at which the fuse trips—are field programmable. One of many advantages includes the ability to adaptiv... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7986706 | Hierarchical pipelined distributed scheduling traffic manager A hierarchical pipelined distributed scheduling traffic manager includes multiple hierarchical levels to perform hierarchical winner selection and propagation in a pipeline including selecting and propagating winner queues of a lower level to subsequent levels to de... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7933214 | Fault detection in a transport network A device associated with a transport network generates a first traceroute through the transport network, and monitors a performance measure associated with the transport network. The device also compares the performance measure to a criterion, and determines degrada... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7899890 | Managed node initial operational state A device associated with a network receives a fetch request from a managed node connected to the network, and provides, to the managed node, trigger information specifying one or more conditions under which the managed node is to be enabled and is to receive traffic... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881219 | Arrangement and method of configuring digital subscriber lines An arrangement, method, and node for configuring subscriber lines in a digital access network. A configuration tool downloads configuration parameters from the network into the access nodes, which configure the subscriber lines according to the configuration paramet... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848287 | Bi-directional RLC non-persistent mode for low delay services The transfer delay QoS attribute for delay-sensitive applications is enforced in radio access networks by determining the ongoing validity of incomplete data packets based on a maximum data transfer delay constraint. According to one embodiment, upper-layer packet d... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845194 | Method of splicing optical fibers with arc imagining and recentering In splicing two optical fibers to each other using an electric arc formed between electrodes images of the regions being heated and thereby fusioned to each other are taken. The images cover a rectangular field (43) having the fibers located centrally, along ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7856243 | Power control for a radio transceiver that uses interference cancellation A signal power associated with a signal received in a current time period is determined. The determined signal power is combined with a predicted effective interference to form a predicted signal-to-interference indicator. The predicted signal-to-interference indica... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7843959 | Prioritising data elements of a data stream The invention relates to prioritising of data elements of a data stream for transmission to a receiving device including determining a decodability of data elements, wherein the decodability indicates the extent to which the current data element is decodable at the ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839858 | Data unit sender and data unit relay device A data unit sender and a data unit relay device are described herein which are arranged to provide a communication of data units from the data unit sender via the data unit relay device to a data unit receiver. Also, control methods are described herein for the data... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835384 | Power control in a communication network and method In a wireless network using a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) scheme is provided a method, system, devices and instruction sets for detecting transmission levels and adjusting the transmission levels for both a connection point and mobile stations within the ne... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826342 | Correlation method for channel estimation for OFDM The present invention concerns a method for estimating the time-dispersion of a channel comprising D subchannels, wherein one computes from a received signal a set of estimated Channel Transfer Factors (CTF's) Ĥ[ν], where ν(0≦ν≦D) is the subchannel number, s... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813298 | Root cause problem detection in network traffic information A device retrieves a first subset of events from data associated with a network, and determines one or more discriminating features of the first subset of events using a feature selection method. The device also retrieves one or more additional subsets of events, di... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7747712 | Managed node initial operational state A device associated with a network receives a fetch request from a managed node connected to the network, and provides, to the managed node, trigger information specifying one or more conditions under which the managed node is to be enabled and is to receive traffic... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738506 | Method and system for communication The present invention relates to a method for synchronization of real-time signals between core network and air interface in a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). The synchronization of the signals is needed to make a feasible connection between user equi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7571382 | Partial retrieval of images in the compressed domain In a method and a system for retrieving images in a client-server system, images are stored as a set of independently decodable units (CU's) on the server. A client issues a series of requests for image information. Each request contain a request number, information... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7362850 | Method and arrangement for estimation of line properties The length and attenuation of a signal line between a transmitter and a customer premises equipment is to be estimated. A frequency dependent line input impedance (Zin(f)) as seen from the transmitter, is measured and an absolute impedance value (œ Z | 04/22/2008 |
| 7327811 | Method and apparatus for facilitating signal discrimination in a wireless network by applying known frequency offsets Method and apparatus for demodulation in a system having known frequency offsets. First and second signals from two users occupy substantially the same bandwidth and use substantially the same carrier frequency, while the relative frequencies of the signals on diffe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317746 | Method and device for passive alignment The present invention is related to a method and device for precision and passive alignment such as precision and passive alignment technology for low cost array fibre access components. A laser carrier is passively aligned to an MT-interface using alignment structu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315823 | Wireless reservation, check-in, access control, check-out and payment A system and method for, by means of a mobile terminal, wireless hotel search and selection, reservation/booking, check-in, room access control, check-out and payment services for hotel customers is disclosed. The mobile terminal (1) comprises a mobile teleph... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7249217 | Content addressable memory (CAM) and method of downloading and banking filters A Content Addressable Memory (CAM) that downloads and banks a group of filters. Each filter has an associated filter-index, which is mapped in a mapping table to an available CAM address for storing the associated filter. Each succeeding filter in the group of filte... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7197622 | Efficient mapping of signal elements to a limited range of identifiers Signal elements are mapped to a limited range of identifiers by emulating a “virtual” space of identifiers larger than the real limited space of identifiers. The larger virtual identifier space is implemented by an intermediate memory, which provides storage of ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187664 | Method and arrangement in a communication system The invention relates to a method and an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) unit for automatically minimizing the impact of inter-cell interference and/or interference between co-existing systems. The AGC unit is located within a transceiver unit, the transceiver unit is ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178089 | Two stage date packet processing scheme Data packets are efficiently combined to fit into a transmission interval. A current communications condition, e.g., the current channel quality, is detected and used to select an appropriate combination of modulation and channel encoding parameters. However, data p... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177642 | Method and system for handling multiple registration Method for supporting multiple registration from the same user requested from different terminals in a telecommunications system requiring to manage information related to the location of said user and related to the plurality of identifiers that identify said user ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177636 | Radio terminal, radio terminal controlling apparatus and location registration auxiliary apparatus To reduce change on a cellular network side required at the time of utilizing a cellular network by way of an IP network. A radio terminal 110 puts a location registration message for a cellular network 100 on an IP packet, and sends the message... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177602 | Electronic devices having automatic frequency control systems and methods and computer program products for operating the same An automatic frequency control (AFC) system in an electronic device is operated by using an AFC-algorithm component to determine a frequency error corresponding to a difference between a frequency of a signal output from a signal generator and a received signal freq... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177274 | Methods of transmitting data packets without exceeding a maximum queue time period and related devices Methods of transmitting data can include providing a data packet in a transmit buffer and providing a delay bound time period within which the data packet should be transmitted after being provided in the transmit buffer. After providing the data packet in the trans... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177378 | Minimization of error contributions in a DMT system Error contributions in a DMT system where a received DMT-signal is effected by intersymbol interference, intercarrier interference and additive noise are minimized. Intersymbol interference average power, intercarrier interference average power, and additive noise a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174139 | Delay control in a digital radio transmitter system A relative delay between analog R.F. output signals of a plurality of digital radio transmitters in a digital radio transmitter system is controlled. At least one interface receives delay information for each transmitter. A processing unit determines the relative de... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171211 | Estimating signal strength measurements in a telecommunications system The number of measurements being performed in a telecommunications system can be reduced by performing a predetermined measurement in Cell A and in co-located Cell B, step 1, for example a received signal code power (RSCP) measurement. The difference between ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171207 | Method and devices for routing a message to a network server in a server pool Method, devices, and computer programs for routing a message to a first network server (MSC1) in a server pool (CNSP) of a mobile communication system are disclosed. The mobile communication system comprises a controller (BSC2) of an access network (AN... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170978 | Voice mail service where the caller can choose among different message types This invention presents a method to provide a more enhanced voice message system to subscribers of a voice message service, where a calling party can receive more detailed information about the called subscriber and in different kind of formats. This is done by givi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170900 | Method and apparatus for scheduling message processing The present invention provides a method and apparatus for scheduling message processing. The present invention provides a scheduling mechanism, or scheduler (602), that receives messages (608) and stores the messages (610 or 614) in a fir... | 01/30/2007 |
