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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116327 | Communications network and management arbitrator A method, information processing system, and network that expands safety network coverage for first responder safety within a building environment. Activity of at least one independent network (106) is monitored. The independent network (106) includes ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8068409 | Fast OSPF inactive router detection A fast OSPF inactive router detection technique is provided that detects the failure of a router and switches routing to an alternate router. The alternate router provides a message to the other routers in the Wide Area Network (LAN) that informs of the router failu... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7945680 | Method and apparatus for peer to peer link establishment over a network A method and apparatus for linking to a Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) network for VOIP communications. An intermediary peer creates a map to link peers together in the P2P network. A series of messages are generated to open the ports of one peer to be accessible to other... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941143 | Method and system for leveraging an authentication on one network to obtain an authentication on another network The present invention relates to a method and system of a method and system for leveraging a 3G authentication to obtain a 2G authentication for a mobile station (135) using a provisional authentication agent (140). The mobile station (135) firs... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7741977 | Method and apparatus for vehicle traffic time calculation A method and apparatus for calculating the travel time of a vehicle as it transits through multiple locations. The method and apparatus includes a device for detecting a radio signal from a vehicle, attaching information to the radio signal, and transmitting a messa... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7643263 | Controlling over-current from a power supply to a device Apparatus (230) for controlling over-current from a power supply (110) to a device (250), the apparatus comprising two power supply inputs (232a, 232b) and two respective device outputs (234a, 234... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642677 | Controlling inrush current from a power supply to a load Apparatus (100) for controlling inrush current from a power supply (250) to a load (255), the apparatus comprising a first (105a) and a second (105b) power supply input and a first (110a) and a second ( | 01/05/2010 |
| 7564820 | Method and apparatus for resource allocation and scheduling A method and apparatus for resource allocation and scheduling within a wireless communication system is provided herein. During resource allocation, a maximum total system transmit power (P), a maximum number of codes available (N), a maximum number of codes for eac... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7376225 | Method for feature transfer in a telecommunication network A network (30) of a telecommunication system (100) receives requests (31) for feature transfers from one user (10) to another user (20). In addition, network initiated feature transfer marks a call agent (61) for feature tra... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7155225 | Method and apparatus in a wireless communication system for facilitating a handoff A dual-band wireless subscriber unit (SU) (112) having an enterprise address of E1 and a cellular address of C1, corresponding method (200), software program (310–320), and WLAN (104) determines (202) that the SU is... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146158 | Method and apparatus for reformatting dialed numbers A wireless communication unit (101) is operable to reformat dialed numbers according to dialing plans for a plurality of communication networks (103, 107, 109), where the unit comprises a transceiver (201) for communicating with any of the plura... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139246 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a mobile communication inactivity timer A wireless communication unit communication transport path monitor (10) monitors (20) at least one wireless communication unit specific parameter, and in response a wireless communication system inactivity timer (11) is set (21) as a func... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7101617 | Silicone dispensing with a conformal film A removable protective thermoformable coating for the packaging of electronic equipment. The coating includes a thermoplastic film and a microencapsulated silicone attached to one side of the film. The coating is vacuum formed and/or melted onto a component, releasi... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7075885 | Method for assigning variable-length walsh codes for code division multiple access communications systems Modulation codes for code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular communications systems that are mutually orthogonal may be generated as a sequence of Walsh codes. A method of assigning Walsh codes includes the steps of (404) receiving as input a status vec... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069013 | High integrity radio access network client reallocation in a wireless communication network A wireless communication system (10) uses communications bridging functions to establish redundant communication paths (32, 34, 44, 46) between redundant radio access network session clients (36, 38), a core system 16 and a base transceiv... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050805 | Wireless communication handover method and apparatus When using a first wireless communication system to facilitate at least a first wireless communication and in response to detecting at least one handover condition, a mobile station can automatically use a second wireless communication system to establish a communic... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046719 | Soft handoff between cellular systems employing different encoding rates A receiver (200) is provided receiving signals from differing base stations (BTSA and BTSB). The signal from BTSA is encoded using a first rate convolutional encoder while the signal transmitted from BTSB is encoded... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035658 | Wireless communication device and network controller for affiliation with associated groups and method thereof A wireless communication device facilitated by a network controller and corresponding methods select a list of requested groups for affiliation from a list of associated groups. The list of requested groups is sent to a network infrastructure where it is processed a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7016698 | Method and apparatus for mitigating power-control errors during a soft handoff in a wireless communication system A plurality of base stations (600) are programmed (702) with a uniform power-control bit pattern to be sent to a mobile unit during a plurality of power-control bit times, before the mobile unit is acquired on a reverse link. The plurality of base stat... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6176744 | Plated plastic connection system and method of making The invention relates, in general, to electrical connector assemblies, and more particularly to plastic electrical connectors that employ metal plated plastic contacts. According to an aspect of the invention, an electrical connector (12) is provided havi... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169492 | Remote keyless entry user-transparent auto re-synchronization apparatus and method A method of user-transparent auto re-synchronization for a remote keyless entry system includes assigning a default challenge-count window (101). A first data packet including a first transmitter-side symbolic count (103) and a first command code is trans... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6160387 | Power transistor current sensing and limiting apparatus A current through a transistor having a drain and a source is sensed using a resistor, and first and second current sources. The resistor is responsive to the first current source to establish a reference voltage between a first terminal and a second term... | 12/12/2000 |
