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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047384 | ESTABLISHING AN AD HOC NETWORK USING FACE RECOGNITION Ad hoc network formation is provided in connection with using face recognition and simple device pairing to build a network. Upon determining the identity of an individual using, for instance, a software recognition program, various protocols may be used to implement th... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047357 | Methods and Apparatus to Predict Non-Execution of Conditional Non-branching Instructions Efficient techniques are described for not executing an issued conditional non-branch instruction. A conditional non-branch instruction is identified as being eligible for a prediction, the prediction indicating that the eligible conditional non-branch (ECNB) instructio... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045864 | POWER CONTROL FOR POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SERVICES PROVIDED IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS To enable point-to-multipoint communication services in an existing cellular communication system infrastructure, each member subscriber station, i.e., a subscriber station participating in such a service, is receiving a forward link shared channel, and in certain embod... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOVERING FROM AN INCOMPLETE IDLE MODE ENTRY This application provides techniques for a mobile station (MS) to determine whether a base station (BS) successfully receives a response to a BS request for the MS to enter an idle mode.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045781 | SENSING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN TELEVISION FREQUENCY BANDS In general, techniques are described for sensing wireless communications in television frequency bands, which may be implemented by a sensing device comprising a sensing unit, a power spectral density (PSD) estimation unit, a filter unit, a candidate selection unit, an ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING OFDM SIGNALS IN THE PRESENCE OF FREQUENCY ORTHOGONAL OFDM INTERFERERS Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for detecting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals in the presence of frequency orthogonal OFDM interferers.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044380 | DYNAMICALLY CHANGING A TRANSMITTER SAMPLING FREQUENCY FOR A DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER (DAC) TO REDUCE INTERFERENCE FROM DAC IMAGES A method for interference reduction is described. The method is implemented in a wireless device. It is determined that a page is going to be received via a secondary receiver. It is also determined that a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) image from a transmitter will ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044300 | Techniques for Accessing a Wireless Communication System with Tune-Away Capability To access a first communication system, a terminal determines a transmission time for an access probe, an expected response time from the system, and a protected time interval based on the transmission time and/or expected response time. The terminal determines a starti... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044298 | DETERMINISTIC BACKOFF CHANNEL ACCESS Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining timing of transmit opportunities for wireless stations. According to certain aspects, an access point transmits a downlink transmission containing a deterministic slot count. A station receivin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044296 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE TRANSMIT ANTENNAS Techniques for controlling the transmit power of a user equipment (UE) using multiple antennas for uplink transmission are described. In one design, the UE receives at least one transmit power control (TPC) command for the multiple antennas. The UE adjusts the transmit ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044294 | Apparatus and Method of Searching Multi-Carrier Active Set Pilots Apparatus and methods are described herein for detecting pilot signals. An access terminal determines whether each pilot signal in its active set can be tracked. If not, the access terminal adjusts the search window center associated with any untracked pilot to a positi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044292 | Apparatus and Method for Increasing Reliability of Serving Cell Change Methods and apparatus are described herein to manage a serving cell change. A HS-SCCH monitored set is maintained to store entries for all pending serving cell change requests. The HS-SCCH for each entry is monitored for a timer period. Once a change request has been co... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044269 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BLIND INTERFERENCE DECREASE/CANCELLATION TECHNIQUES A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which one or more semi-static parameters associated with at least one neighboring eNode B (eNB) and an interfering user equipment (UE) are detected, at an eNB, and a blind ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOWNLINK OUTER LOOP POWER CONTROL FOR HSUPA The described aspects relate to systems and methods for power control in wireless communication systems. In particular, the described aspects relate to dynamically providing, based on activities on HSUPA channels, a downlink power control adjustment during a data transm... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044248 | RELIABLE INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CORE NETWORK TUNNEL A method of a mobile switching center includes determining if a message belongs to a first set of messages or a second set of messages, filtering the message when the message belongs to the first set of messages, and sending the message when the message belongs to the s... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044247 | MAXIMUM POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY REPORTING IN RESPONSE TO OVERLOAD INDICATIONS Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods for reporting information such as a maximum power spectral density to a serving access point after receiving overload indicators from one or more neighboring access points. The reported information may be multipl... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044238 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UPDATING CHANNEL DESCRIPTOR INFORMATION IN WIMAX NETWORKS This application provides techniques for updating channel descriptor (CD) information in a wireless communications system.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044226 | SELECTIVELY GENERATING MULTICAST FLOW IDENTIFIERS AND SELECTIVELY OBTAINING SESSION PARAMETERS FOR A MULTICAST COMMUNICATION SESSION An embodiment includes based on an evaluation of multicast communication session identifier(s) of a given multicast communication session, selecting between (i) querying a remote server for a multicast flow identifier, and (ii) applying a pre-defined mapping protocol to... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044188 | TIMING ADJUSTMENTS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided to improve synchronization of information units communicated in a wireless communication system. Timing misalignment in the transmission of adjacent information units can produce gaps or overlaps in ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044096 | Magnetic Tunnel Junction Structure In a particular illustrative embodiment, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure is disclosed that includes a bottom electrode, a fixed layer, a tunnel barrier layer, a free layer, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is coupled to a bottom surface of the fixed ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043956 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR POWER AMPLIFIER Techniques for protecting a power amplifier (PA) are described. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes (i) a PA module to amplify an input RF signal and provide an output RF signal and (ii) a protection circuit to control a transmitter gain to protect the PA modu... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043408 | COMPACT MULTI-BAND PLANAR INVERTED F ANTENNA A simple, compact multi-band PIFA including two arm portions, where one arm portion is grounded at two points to form a loop, a ground plane, and a plastic carrier and housing. The antenna radiates a same signal from both arm portions, at different efficiencies accordin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043291 | DYNAMIC LIMITERS FOR FREQUENCY DIVIDERS Techniques for generating quadrature signals from a local oscillator signal, wherein the generated quadrature signals have a frequency half of the local oscillator frequency. In an exemplary embodiment, two oscillators, e.g., injection locked oscillators, are provided, ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043285 | DIGITAL TUNABLE INTER-STAGE MATCHING CIRCUIT A tunable inter-stage matching circuit that can improve performance is described. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes a first active circuit (e.g., a driver amplifier), a second active circuit (e.g., a power amplifier), and a tunable inter-stage matching circu... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043284 | STACKED AMPLIFIER WITH DIODE-BASED BIASING Techniques for improving linearity of amplifiers are described. In an exemplary design, an amplifier (e.g., a power amplifier) may include a plurality of transistors coupled in a stack and at least one diode. The plurality of transistors may receive and amplify an input... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042829 | IC Interconnect A multi-tiered IC device contains a first die including a substrate with a first and second set of vias. The first set of vias extends from one side of the substrate, and the second set of vias extend from an opposite side of the substrate. Both sets of vias are coupled... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042818 | Adding Symmetrical Filling Material In An Integrated Circuit Layout In one embodiment, an integrated circuit has a conductive layer, where the conductive layer has a first set of regions and a second set of fill material regions, and the second set of fill material regions has a line of symmetry. Other embodiments are described and clai... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041128 | Apparatus and Method for Distributed Data Processing An apparatus and method for distributed data processing is described herein. A main processor programs a mini-processor to process an incoming data stream. The mini-processor is located in close proximity to hardware components operating on the input data stream. A copy... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110041127 | Apparatus and Method for Efficient Data Processing Efficient data processing apparatus and methods include hardware components which are pre-programmed by software. Each hardware component triggers the other to complete its tasks. After the final pre-programmed hardware task is complete, the hardware component issues a ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040948 | Apparatus and Method for Efficient Memory Allocation Incoming data frames are parsed by a hardware component. Headers are extracted and stored in a first location along with a pointer to the associated payload. Payloads are stored in a single, contiguous memory location.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040947 | Apparatus and Method for Memory Management and Efficient Data Processing Multiple memory pools are defined in hardware for operating on data. At least one memory pool has a lower latency that the other memory pools. Hardware components operate directly on data in the lower latency memory pool.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINK AGGREGATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Wireless communication devices for communicating via link aggregation in a heterogeneous wireless communication system are disclosed. One such wireless communication device includes logic configured to establish a first communication path between the wireless communicat... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040858 | LOCATION DETERMINATION DURING NETWORK ADDRESS LOOKUP The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining location information of a client device. A client device communicating via a network may receive information from the network regarding its physical location in response, at least in part, to the client device r... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040818 | DISCRETE TIME LOWPASS FILTER A discrete time (DT) lowpass filter having various advantages is described. In an exemplary design, the DT lowpass filter includes a decimating DT filter (which may include a passive DT FIR filter and/or a passive DT IIR filter) and an active DT filter. The decimating D... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERLOAD INDICATION Devices and methods are provided for transmit power control in a wireless communication environment. In one embodiment, the method may involve measuring an interference amount over at least one of a sub-band and a full bandwidth. The method may involve assigning a level... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039592 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING, COMMUNICATING AND/OR VERIFYING OWNERSHIP OF EXPRESSIONS Methods and apparatus for generating, communicating, and/or verifying ownership of expressions are described. Various embodiments are well suited for use in a wireless peer to peer communications systems in which expressions are communicated, e.g., broadcast, in discove... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039578 | ASSISTANCE DATA FOR POSITIONING IN MULTIPLE RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES An apparatus and method for determining a position of a mobile station based on terrestrial assistance data from a first wireless network to which the mobile station is not attached. That is, the mobile station is able to receive terrestrial assistance from a first wire... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039576 | Enhanced Positioning Assistance Data For Reduced Signaling Apparatus and methods for determining a location estimate of a mobile device based on an extended set of assistance data are presented. The extended assistance data includes assistance data for base stations, such as cellular base stations and access points, not expecte... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039573 | ACCESSING POSITIONAL INFORMATION FOR A MOBILE STATION USING A DATA CODE LABEL Positional information for a mobile station is acquired using a data code label and the positional information is updated as the mobile station moves without the need for signals from a Satellite Positioning System (SPS), such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). The... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039562 | SESSION-SPECIFIC SIGNALING FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORKS OVER A SINGLE ACCESS NETWORK Providing for call-specific signaling for call-setup on multiple wireless communication systems via a single wireless access network is described herein. By way of example, a communication context for a mobile device can be established on a first radio access network (R... | 02/17/2011 |
