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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7995684 | Method and apparatus for automatic gain control of a multi-carrier signal in a communication receiver A receiver operates to AGC a multi-carrier signal through a corresponding number of inner loops and an outer loop AGC processes. A first number of bits for representing the multi-carrier signal with a limited amount of interference is determined through a calibratio... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7912485 | Method and system for signaling in broadcast communication system A method and a system for providing signaling in cellular telephone system providing broadcast services to fully integrate broadcast services with the services provided by the cellular telephone systems. The signaling method coordinate interaction between an access ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7873163 | Method and apparatus for message integrity in a CDMA communication system In a communication system (100), a method and apparatus provides for message integrity regardless of the operating version of an authentication center (198) or an interface (197) between the authentication center (198) and a mobile switch... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7505780 | Outer-loop power control for wireless communication systems Systems and methods for controlling power in a wireless communication system having multiple reverse-link channels. One embodiment comprises adjusting power levels of a first set of channels and a corresponding pilot channel while maintaining a set traffic-to-pilot ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502420 | Method and apparatus for determining power allocation in a MIMO communication system In a MIMO communication system (100) with limited power for each antenna, a method, apparatus and a processor (420) provide for determining bin energy level allocation to each OFDM frequency bin at each transmit antenna. An estimate of a solution vecto... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7477916 | Method and apparatus to initiate point-to-point call during shared-channel delivery of broadcast content in a wireless telephone network A method for managing a point-to-point call initiated (702) between a wireless mobile station (114, 400) and a remote party while the mobile is receiving broadcast content via one or more multi-user forward-link broadcast channels (508). The mob... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7386305 | System and method for selectively forming and rotating a transmission beam Broadly speaking, the invention comprises systems and methods that use the number of mobile stations, denoted by N, communicating with a base station, as a variable that determines the optimum induced change rate, R, and the antenna beam width, W, of a time-varying ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7269186 | Protocol for framing a payload Systems and techniques for establishing a communication link wherein a transmission source delimits frame boundaries of a payload, calculates a value as a function of a subset of the payload, and appends the value to the payload within the frame boundaries before tr... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7158796 | Apparatus, system, and method for autonomously managing reverse link communication resources in a distributed communication system An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link communication in a communication system having geographically distributed base stations. A base station functioning to at least one mobile station as a non-serving active base station estimates an expe... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7123590 | Method and apparatus for testing a wireless link using configurable channels and rates Techniques to test a wireless communication link using configurable channels and rates. A W-Markov test service may be invoked to test and/or verify the performance of the downlink and/or uplink using at least one transport channel for each link. Each transport chan... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113790 | Method and apparatus for using a traffic channel for communications of control data in a wireless communication system Various method and apparatus provides for a method and apparatus for a communication system to efficiently use the traffic channel resources for communications of control data. A controller receiving a transmission indicator of a control message for transmission fro... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113773 | Reliable reception of broadcast/multicast content Systems and methods for systems and methods for reliably broadcasting content to a plurality of users and facilitating distribution of portions of the broadcast content that either were not received by particular users, or were received with errors. In one embodimen... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7062556 | Load balancing method in a communication network A communication system network (500) having a plurality of servers (502-1 through N), each having a load level based on serving a number of clients (501-1 through M), a method includes grouping plurality of servers (502-1... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6900809 | Method and apparatus for animation of an object on a display A method and apparatus for animation of an object. The invention includes communication destination matrixes used for project source and destination vertex arrays of, source and destination objects from an original space to an ortho-normal space. At a receiver (2... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6324572 | Communication network method and apparatus In a network communication system (300) a method and apparatus includes generating a record of state information (360) associated with a service connection (370), associating the record of state information (360) to a first (320-1) of an N processing unit... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6253063 | Method and apparatus for selecting a communication data rate between mobile and base stations A mobile station (110) selects an initial data rate for communication between base station (107) and mobile station (110). Mobile station (110) communicates the selected initial data rate to base station (107) through uplink (112). Base station (107) dete... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6084904 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a power control setpoint threshold in a wireless communication system A method of adjusting a power control setpoint threshold (216) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving at a receiver, a communication signal from a mobile communication unit to form a received communicati... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6075824 | Method and apparatus for re-encoding decoded data A re-encoded history data bits generator (101), in a communication system having a block of convolutionally encoded data bits that are interleaved into a matrix (200), selects, for each of the required number of re-encoded history data bits, a combination... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6034969 | Method and system for cross frame transmit combining of transmit signals The present invention provides for a method and a system for combining into a single set of combined transmit signals (32) multiple sets of transmit signals (30) associated with different carrier bands or channels produced by a plurality of modem frames (... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6018192 | Electronic device with a thermal control capability An electronic device (10) having a thermal control capability is disclosed. The electronic device includes a substrate (16), a signal conductive region (26) disposed on at least a portion of the substrate, the signal conductive region configured to provid... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6018360 | Method of switching a call to a multipoint conference call in a H.323 communication compliant environment A method of switching a call to a multipoint conference call includes sending a message (201) from a first terminal (105-T1) to a gatekeeper (102) which provides address translation and control access to a shared network medium (101). The call is initiall... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6018664 | Method of balancing availability of communication links in communication systems A method of balancing availability of uplink (102) and downlink (101) frequency bandwidths includes determining a demand level for use of downlink (101) frequency bandwidth, and occupying artificially a portion of uplink (102) frequency bandwidth based on... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6015263 | Fluid moving device and associated method A fluid moving device (100) includes a rotatable assembly (101), and a plurality of fan blades (102-04) disposed circumferentially around and extending outward from rotatable assembly (101), at least one of plurality of fan blades (102-04) includes shape ... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6014565 | Method for service planning in a radio telephone system In a wireless communication system, including a first fixed communication unit (105), a plurality of other fixed communication units (101, 106), and a mobile communication unit (103) responsive to at least the first fixed communication unit, a radio telep... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6002676 | Method and apparatus for selecting a resource in a communication system with resources having unbalanced load capacity The method of selecting one of the resources for servicing a call includes determining a load level and a relative load capacity for each of candidate resources. The relative load capacity is based on a ratio of each candidate resource load capacity and t... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5999815 | Method and apparatus for implementing diversity for a dual-mode communication unit The present invention provides a method for implementing diversity for a dual-mode communication unit in a communication system. The communication system includes a first transceiver utilizing a first air interface and a second transceiver utilizing a sec... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5995550 | Method and apparatus for decoding a coded signal in a communication system The present invention is a method and apparatus for decoding a coded signal in a communication system. The coded signal is processed through digital signal processing to produce decision metrics representing the coded signal, and the metrics are scaled ac... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5991285 | Method and apparatus for communicating signals of various channel types in CDMA communication system In a code division multiple access communication system providing a plurality of communication type services between a first unit (100) and a second communicating unit (200) by time-multiplexing a plurality of data channel signals (101, 102, 103) associat... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5991628 | Scalable wireless communication network and method A wireless communication system (100) includes a plurality of base station controllers (BSCs) (114, 116) logically sharing a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) (124, 126) and which may physically share antenna and related transceiver equipment.... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5974079 | Method and apparatus for encoding rate determination in a communication system A method and apparatus of determining an encoding rate associated with a received signal (12), where the method including the steps of demodulating in a demodulator (80) to produce a series of metrics (22) representing energies of a series of data symbols... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5960324 | Method for unobtrusive interception of satellite communication In a satellite communication system, a method of unobtrusively intercepting a communication call includes establishing a first connection to originate from a first satellite subscriber (SU) and terminate at a first node at a first transcoder, establishing... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5953659 | Method and apparatus for producing delay of a carrier signal for implementing spatial diversity in a communications system A method and apparatus for implementing spatial diversity utilizing coaxial interconnections between a plurality of receivers, transmitters and radiating elements in a communication system is disclosed. The long coaxial line used for feeding associated re... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5949773 | Method for transferring a data signal in a wireless communications system The method of transferring a CDMA data signal (107) associated with a mobile station (103) which operates between a source system (202) and a target system (204). The method includes establishing a frame relay switched virtual circuit (FR SVC) transport f... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5913167 | Method for transferring a communication link in a wireless communication system A wireless communication system, including a first fixed communication unit and a second fixed communication unit, a mobile communication unit responsive to the first fixed communication unit and the second fixed communication unit, a method for transferr... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5898696 | Method and system for controlling an encoding rate in a variable rate communication system A method and system for controlling an encoding rate in a communication system utilizes feedforward rate information (48) and/or rate desirability information (50) sent from each of a plurality of variable rate vocoders (34) to a communication link output... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5894498 | Method and apparatus for analyzing a composite carrier signal A communication system receives and codes a plurality of information signals according to coding assignments to produce a plurality of coded baseband signals. From these signals, a simulated composite carrier signal is formed which has all the characteris... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5892396 | Method and apparatus for controlling gain of a power amplifier A method and apparatus for controlling the gain of a power amplifier wherein the method includes the steps of attenuating, detecting, and comparing. An attenuator (108) attenuates an amplified version of a radio frequency signal to an attenuated level. A ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5831478 | Feedforward amplifier A method and apparatus in a feedforward amplifier (100) includes a summer (293) summing the desired signal (12) with a pair of tag signals (241, 242). An error signal (226) is coupled with a delayed version of the summed signal (48). The phase and amplitu... | 11/03/1998 |
