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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185104 | Apparatus and method for differentiating services in multimedia networks to roaming subscribers The present invention is aimed to the provision of a mechanism whereby roaming users can specify whether they prefer to dial numbers belonging to the home network in local format or in international format from the visited network where they are roaming so that the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185094 | Message handling in an IP multimedia subsystem A method of handling the delivery of push messages from a notification server of a Session Initiation Protocol based network to a network user. The method comprises signalling to said notification server the start of a Session Initiation Protocol session and the end... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185067 | Modulation method and apparatus A modulation circuit for use in a radiofrequency transmitter includes a local oscillator circuit configured to generate one or more local oscillator signals at a desired frequency and with a duty cycle at or about twenty-five percent, and a modulator configured to g... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184578 | Dynamic inter-cell channel sharing A mechanism to share channels between cells dynamically and without simultaneous allocation of the same channel by more than one access point achieved by a method for a dynamic inter-cell channel sharing for a first access point in a radio access network, the first ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181014 | Method and apparatus for protecting the routing of data packets A method and apparatus for protecting the routing of data packets in a packet data network. When a first end-host sends an address query to a DNS server system regarding a second end-host, the DNS server system responds by providing a destination parameter containin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180878 | Methods and apparatuses for terminating an IP multimedia subsystem service when IP address is no longer allocated to the user A method and network node for terminating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-enabled communication service involving a user terminal, which has been allocated an IP address by an access network used by the terminal to access the communication service. Upon determining... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180408 | Method and arrangement for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication network The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for reducing power consumption of a receiver in a mobile communication network comprising a sender transmitting packet data on a downlink channel to one or more receivers over a radio interface. Inactive time inst... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180344 | Cell reselection for dual mode mobile stations in a common 2G/3G telecommunications network A 2G controlling entity in a common 2G/3G network that includes a common Core Network is connected to dual mode mobile stations and to a 3G controlling entity also connected to dual mode mobile stations. The 2G controlling entity applies a 3G camping strategy and re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180324 | System and method enabling a wireless device to communicate with a second party without revealing the identity of the wireless device to a third party A method and apparatus for enabling anonymous communications from a first Bluetooth device to a second Bluetooth device is disclosed wherein a temporary identification number associated with the first Bluetooth device is obtained and used in transmissions from the f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180024 | Method and system of call completion based on caller selected call treatment In the present invention, a caller is presented with the state of the call as detected by the network, along with a number of potential options, such as: request sequential or parallel call notification to one or more other stations; end the call but leave a voicema... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179988 | Cyclic redundancy in ODFM systems Method, communication system, receiver, baseband processor and computer program for recovering data from a received OFDM-signal containing recurrent redundant information where part of the recurrent redundant information is used to maximize the SINR (Signal to Inter... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179858 | Method for avoiding interruptions of push to talk services A method of controlling the cell re-selection of a mobile station (4) between cells (1) of a cellular-based radio access network (6). The method comprises the steps of determining when a cell re-selection for the mobile station (4) is app... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179853 | Method of scheduling data transmission in a radio network In a method and apparatus for scheduling users in radio network system, the scheduling priority for each user of a group of users is made dependent on the unusable time for each user. Scheduling of the users is performed in accordance with the determined scheduling ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179796 | Method and node for providing a resource efficient connection in a communication network A method, a network node and a program unit for controlling the establishment or modification of a connection in a communication network are disclosed. The connection is to be established or modified between nodes that are adapted to employ a coding scheme selected ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179320 | Positioning method and devices in a mobile radio communications system The present invention relates to a method and devices for determining the position of a user equipment in a mobile radio communications system. According to the invention, the position is determined via a distortion in a radio signal transmitted to or from the user ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176376 | Optimal error protection coding for MIMO ACK/NACK/POST information Error protection based on a nonlinear code set may be used in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio communications system. A decoder decodes received MIMO data streams and generates an automatic repeat request (ARQ) message for data units received for the MI... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175628 | Method and apparatus for reducing push-to-talk (PTT) latency in a WCDMA network A method and apparatus for reducing latency when setting up a Push-to-Talk (PTT) session from a User Equipment (UE) in a WCDMA radio communication network. When a user opens a PTT application or accesses the contacts page, the UE obtains a radio bearer from the netw... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175607 | Network configuration audit A cell planning tool capable of determining the correctness of stored parameters regarding a cell site configuration, e.g., regarding the height of an antenna section or the output power. The correctness of the parameters is determined by importing a number of in-si... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175576 | Method and apparatus for use in a communications network A method and apparatus for registering a mobile node such as a User Equipment (UE) of a UMTS telecommunications network with a subsystem of the network such as an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). A Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) node provides policy and cha... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175535 | Active cancellation of transmitter leakage in a wireless transceiver Active transmitter leakage cancellation techniques are disclosed, for reducing transmitter leakage in a frequency-duplexing radio transceiver. Reducing transmitter leakage to the receiver path of a duplex transceiver eases the linearity requirements for low-noise am... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175059 | Buffer transfer in a communications network A method and apparatus for transferring buffer data from a first network node to a second network node during a mobile handover between cells. In order to improve the speed at which buffer data is transferred during a handover, a connection using a congestion contro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175038 | Method and apparatuses for influencing the invoking of a service provided by an application server to a user equipment A server and method are described herein that can influence the invoking of a service provided by an application server to a user-user equipment. The server includes a database that stores a service profile for the user-user equipment, where the service profile has ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175031 | Method and apparatus for supporting packet data services in service area boundary regions A method of providing packet data service is based on selectively switching packet data traffic for a mobile station operating in a boundary region between two service areas from a shared packet data channel to a dedicated packet data channel, or vice versa. For exa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174992 | Fault localisation in multiple spanning tree based architectures A method of localizing a fault in a network is disclosed. The network comprises nodes (SW1 . . . SW4) links, and edge-nodes (EN1 . . . EN4) arranged as a plurality of spanning trees (T1, T2,T3), the spanning trees bei... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171468 | Downloading and upgrading terminal software over the air of a wireless device The technology downloads and upgrades terminal software of a communications device over-the-air in a efficient and fail-safe manner. The communication device is provided with radio software from a server via a wireless network including a number of access networks. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170599 | Format based power control Power control methods and apparatus taught herein advantageously provide quick convergence to the signal quality target needed to achieve a given data error rate target, when changes in transport format use by a given transport channel require such convergence. Spec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170569 | Method for facilitate efficient multimedia broadcast/multicast service in a telecommunication system A radio access network facilitates transmission of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) to user equipments in plural cells served by a radio base station. A radio network controller includes in a first message of a transport channel setup request either a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170131 | Method and arrangement for reducing feedback data in a MIMO communication system The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for reducing feedback data in a communication system, said communication system comprising a number of transmitter antennas, nτ, and a number of receiver antennas, nR, for parallel spat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169992 | Uplink scrambling during random access The technology described in this case facilitates random access by a user terminal with a radio base station. A user terminal determines one of a first type of uplink scrambling sequences and generates a random access message using the determined one of the first ty... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169943 | Method and a device for saving power in a wireless user terminal A method (400) for use in a cellular system with at least one controlling node (110), eNodeB, which controls user terminals, UEs (130), in a cell (120). According to the method, a UE can be in one of at least two different states (410 | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169896 | Connectivity fault management traffic indication extension A method in a Maintenance Association Endpoint, MEP, for controlling traffic between a first network element and a second network element connected by a working Traffic Engineering Service Instance, TESI, and a protection TESI. The first network element sets a Traff... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169269 | Hartley voltage controlled oscillator In a Hartley voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit comprising two inductors (Ld, Lg), a transistor (Q1) and a varactor (C), the two inductors (Ld, Lg) are arranged as a coupled inductor pair to enable positive... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166520 | Method and apparatus for handling invites to a multi-user communication session A method of handling Invite messages for a multi-user communication session utilizing the IP Multimedia Subsystem to set up and control the session. Two or more access servers control user access. A first access server receives from a session-initiating user, an Inv... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166300 | Extending the DRM realm to external devices Disclosed is a method and a system for rendering content on external devices securely. The method comprises setting up a communication channel between a proxy rendering server of a mobile device and an external rendering server of an external device, authenticating ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165590 | Neighbor cell relation list initialization Neighbor cell relation lists are initialized and managed in various ways that are especially beneficial to closed subscriber group (CSG) cells served by CSG base stations. Typically, only a radio terminal belonging to the CSG is permitted to access and receive servi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165587 | Communicating cell restriction status information between radio access network nodes A cellular radio communications network includes a core network coupled to a radio access network (RAN) that has multiple RAN nodes for communication with mobile radio terminals. Each of the multiple RAN nodes serves one or more cells. At least one cell associated w... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165299 | Network authentication An existing communications device, such as a WAP-enabled mobile phone or other device, can be used as an authentication token. This has the advantage that WAP-enabled devices include components which are used in public key/private key cryptographic systems as a part... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165156 | Ethernet DSL access multiplexer and method providing dynamic service selection and end-user configuration An Ethernet Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) and method of dynamically creating a service binding in the Ethernet DSLAM based on a service selection made by an end-user. The end-user may use the PPPoE or IEEE802.1X access protocols to provide login... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165103 | Method and arrangement for preamble detection In a hardware accelerator for preamble detection of a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) in a CDMA based communication system, buffering means stores input samples received at an antenna at a first rate, addressing means read a predetermined consecutive number o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161358 | Parity bit soft estimation method and apparatus The systematic and parity bits of a symbol are tightly coupled to each other based on the way in which the symbol is encoded. The relationship between the systematic and parity bits can be exploited to improve the accuracy of soft bit estimation for both the systema... | 04/17/2012 |
