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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185794 | Media container file management The invention teaches a media container file comprising media data organized into media source blocks. The media source blocks are partitioned into source symbols that can be processed by a forward error correction (FEC) algorithm for generation of FEC redundancy da... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185115 | Tracking cells for cell-reselection in a cellular communications system A user equipment (UE) in a cellular communication system tracks neighbor cells by periodically performing a signal measurement process and periodically performing a signal tracking process. Neighbor cells are ranked according to measured signal level, and the number... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185057 | Uplink channel quality feedback reduction in a mobile communication system Operating a user equipment in a mobile communication system includes generating a measure of reliability of a predicted channel estimate and of impairment stability, wherein the predicted channel estimate is a predicted estimate of a channel between the user equipme... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184721 | Recursive filtering of a video image A method of recursive filtering of a video image includes storing an image 20 comprising picture elements. Luminance and chrominance weightings are assigned for weighting neighbouring picture elements to a picture element in a current image 10 and for ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184675 | Residual frequency offset exploitation Respective residual frequency offsets of de-spread correlated signals derived from a received communication signal are determined and used to improve receiver performance in high-velocity situations. The knowledge of the residual frequency offsets of the respective ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184623 | Method and arrangement for handling profiles in a multimedia service network A method and apparatus for sharing an application profile for plural public IMS identities across different IMS subscriptions. A home application profile for a first public IMS identity (IMPUx) of a first IMS subscription, is stored in its entirety at a first HSS st... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184597 | Technique for radio resource management A radio resource management technique in a cellular telecommunication system is disclosed. The telecommunication system comprises at least one radio network controlling component and one or more base station components operable to implement an uplink scheduling sche... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184580 | Data packet communication scheduling in a communication system A communication device has a plurality of concurrently operating transceiver systems, each operating in a respectively different one of a plurality of communication systems. Operation of the transceiver systems is coordinated by receiving a plurality of requests fro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183960 | Trimming of waveguide filters A waveguide filter comprising a matching means for matching the filter. The waveguide filter comprises a housing comprising a cavity having a predetermined first volume. The matching means is in the form of a volume element having a predetermined second volume being... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183918 | Circuitry and method for reducing second and third-order nonlinearities An electronic circuit comprises at least two transistors coupled in parallel, wherein the second transistor channel length is configured such that the threshold voltage of the second transistor is at a peak on a threshold voltage versus channel lengths curve arising... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180765 | Device and method for selecting at least one media for recommendation to a user The invention relates to a method and device for selecting at least one media for recommendation to a user. The device comprises an interface to a users database comprising data relative to users medias consumption and data relative to connections between users. The... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179957 | Quadrature pulse-width modulation methods and apparatus Switched-mode amplifiers and devices having such amplifiers include quadrature pulse-width modulation that is based on cartesian (as opposed to polar) coordinates. Two sets of pulses that represent respective in-phase and quadrature components of a conventional cart... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179866 | Throughput optimized carrier allocation A cell plan operation, a Routine and a base station are disclosed wherein user entities are allocated to at least two carriers (C1; C2) in at least one cell (A; B) of a system (node B), the first carrier (C1) having at least a first channel (DPC... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179783 | System and method of modulation and coding scheme adjustment for a LTE shared data channel A system, method and node for modulation and coding scheme adjustment for a Long Term Evolution (LTE) shared Data Channel. The method determines an actual number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, NOS utilized for the shared Dat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179676 | Optical interconnects in cooling substrates Fluid-cooling technology developed for printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electronics assemblies is combined with optical-based interconnect technology, thereby enabling efficient fabrication of PCBs with free-space optical bearers. Since cooling components such as f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175630 | Method of closed loop power control adjusted by self-interference A method and apparatus for controlling the transmit power of a mobile device in a mobile communication network takes the level of self-interference into account to perform inner-loop power control. For normal inner-loop power control, a signal quality estimate is co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175601 | Method of detecting incorrect cell identity in wireless communication systems By transmitting the Measurement cell identity (MCI), in addition to the PCI PLMN cell identity (PCI), in a request to a node, an MCI to PCI mismatch is early discovered by the node and reported to the source eNode B. The handover procedure can be aborted in an earli... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175278 | Key management messages for secure broadcast The present invention involves establishing a top-level key and optionally also a verification tag. The top-level key is used as the MDP key for encrypting a broadcast medium. Only the part of the key message that contains the encrypted top-level key is authenticate... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175200 | Hybrid correlation and least squares channel estimation A hybrid channel estimator for a wireless communication system receiver includes both correlation based and least squares based channel estimators. The correlation estimator is used when signal quality is low or noise is colored. The least squares estimator is used ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175074 | Method and devices for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets A system and method for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets between a service entity and a user equipment is provided. A plurality of service classes relating to the quality of service are preconfigured and a selected service class is... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175061 | Path loss polygon positioning The present invention introduces methods and devices for provision of position determination assisting data as well as methods, devices and systems for performing position determinations based on this assisting data. The position determination assisting data compris... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174247 | Microwave transmission line DC/DC converter A method and an electrical circuit for DC-DC voltage conversion in a network comprising an input voltage terminal, an output voltage terminal, at least one first switch and at least one second switch, at least one input impedance, at least one load impedance and at ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170557 | Reducing buffer overflow A method of reducing buffer overflow in a cellular radio network caused by a transfer of data from a buffer in a first cell to a buffer in a second cell when a handover of mobile equipment from said first cell to said second cell occurs. The method comprises tempora... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169973 | Power efficient enhanced uplink transmission A method and arrangement in a mobile terminal such as a UE for selecting a transport format for an uplink transmission to a base station, wherein the selector selects a transport format from a set of transport formats which are generated based upon parameters of a r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169966 | Method and a network node for managing handovers in a packet data communication environment The invention deals with managing handovers between access networks in a packet data communication environment. According to the invention, the possibility to control access network resources will improve by having a mobility manager node (160) managing such ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166319 | Methods and systems for use-case aware voltage selection Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for optimizing voltage use in digital circuits. This can be obtained by creating situations for digital circuits such that the effective critical path (ECP) can be used such as, for example, the ca... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160208 | Systems and methods for monitoring telephone lines Systems and methods for monitoring a telephone line connected to a port of a voice gateway are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: obtaining a value representing an electrical characteristic of the port of the voice gateway; determining whether the va... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159801 | Switched hot swap controller The invention describes an electric circuit (100), a method and a computer program for hot-swapping an electronic board in a telecommunication system, where the increase in current in the electric circuit is controlled by a microcontroller (130) switch... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155659 | Measurement-assisted dynamic frequency-reuse in cellular telecommunications networks A radio network resource controller directs a first network node associated with a first cell region, or a wireless terminal in communication through the first cell region, to measure and report radio resource-related data selected from the group consisting of: reso... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155651 | Transmission parameter negotiation after packet-switched handover A user equipment (UE) includes a resettable timer that clocks a period after a successful packet-switched handover in a communication system. If a command message for setting packet-data transmission parameters is not received from the network before the period elap... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155647 | Method and apparatus for automatically determining neighbor cells in a wireless telecommunication system Methods and apparatuses for automatically determining neighbor cells are disclosed. Cell information is received. The received cell information is compared with a list of old neighbor cells. When a new cell is detected, a determination is made as to whether the dete... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155626 | Method and apparatus for multimedia communication A method and apparatus for enabling communication of IP multimedia content to a called user during a circuit-switched call between a calling terminal (A) having called a primary communication unit (B1), when the call has been forwarded to a secondary communic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155617 | Lightweight MRRM with radio agnostic access selection in the core network A method and arrangement for making a handover decision in a multi-access communication network is disclosed. A first set of criteria is determined for when a handover between at least two access paths should be performed and a report is sent when at least one crite... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155247 | Message decoding with a priori information and soft combining A method and arrangement for improving channel decoding performance in a radio receiver. Data bits from previously decoded messages are analyzed to provide a priori information to a channel decoder which is decoding a currently received message of the same type. The... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155145 | Method and system for telecommunications using layer 3 packets obtained from a sequence of layer 2 radio link control layer data frames A telecommunications system includes a first node. The system includes a base station that communicates with the first node. The system includes a radio network controller in communication with the base station. The system includes a computer in communication with t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155092 | Apparatus and method for selecting a visited network The present invention is aimed to provide a mechanism whereby a roaming user can select a visited network allowed for roaming by the home network operator among a plurality of visited networks accessible through an access network. Therefore, the present invention pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155090 | Method and apparatus for efficient multimedia delivery in a wireless packet network The present invention sends multiple versions of a multimedia packet to the base station, and, based on the radio channel and traffic characteristics, an appropriate version of the multimedia packet is selected to send to the mobile station at a given time. In this ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155083 | Technique for configuring link layer entities for a handover A technique of configuring link layer entities for a handover is described. In a method embodiment, the technique includes receiving from a recipient of protocol data units a supplemental status report for an existing ARQ connection in context with an imminent hando... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155034 | Prioritized and piggy-backed ACK/NACK reports A method (200) for a cellular system (100), with an RBS (120) which controls a cell (110) with User Equipments UE (130, 140). The RBS and the UEs exchange data which may comprise sequence numbers, and exchange reports on whether or... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155029 | Method and arrangement for assuring prefix consistency among multiple mobile routers The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement in communication systems utilizing network mobility (NEMO). In moving networks comprising a plurality of mobile routers, MRs, it needs to be assured that two or more MRs sharing the same prefix, belong to ... | 04/10/2012 |
