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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175888 | Enhanced layered gain factor balancing within a multiple-channel audio coding system During operation a multiple channel audio input signal is received and coded to generate a coded audio signal. A balance factor having balance factor components each associated with an audio signal of the multiple channel audio signal is generated. A gain value to b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8145251 | Power control in schedulable wireless communication terminal A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network, including a controller (603) communicably coupled to a power amplifier (608), wherein the controller varies a maximum transmit power of the wireless communication entity b... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145127 | Method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system (100). The method may include receiving (315) an uplink scheduling grant at a user equipment (120), establ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144712 | Scheduling grant information signaling in wireless communication system A wireless communication infrastructure entity including a transceiver coupled to a controller configured to generate parity bits based on scheduling grant information and to encode the parity bits based on additional scheduling grant information not used to generat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140342 | Selective scaling mask computation based on peak detection A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140102 | Method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for transmit power calibration in a frequency division multiplexed wireless system (100). The method may include receiving (320), at a user equipment (120), a signal from a base station ( | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131214 | Method for selecting content for transfer or synchronization between devices A method, a tap initiator, and tap target in a close proximity communication are disclosed. A tap interface 106 may initiate a tap with a tap target 104. The tap interface 108 may receive a tap from a tap initiator 102. A tap gauge 110... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126030 | Multi-mode wireless communication device and method A multimode wireless communication device capable of communicating pursuant to first and second communication protocols, including a method wherein a determination is made (530) as to whether a harmonic generated during transmission in one protocol interferes... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111693 | Broadcast messaging in wireless communication networks A method for receiving a broadcast message in a wireless communication device is disclosed. The device receives a broadcast message that has associated therewith a unique message grouping identifier and determines whether the unique message grouping identifier of th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098620 | Method for status reporting in wireless communication systems when one-time allocated resource is insufficent A wireless communication terminal includes a controller configured to prompt a transceiver to transmit a partial status report accommodated by a radio resource available to the terminal. The partial status report includes a sub-set of complete acknowledgement inform... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090396 | Push-to-talk features in wireless communications devices and methods A wireless communications terminal that communicates in a communications infrastructure and methods therefor including opening a push-to-talk (PTT) contact list application (220) on the terminal when the terminal is in a dormant state, for example, by depress... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082000 | Method of selecting a private cell for providing communication to a communication device and a communication device A method of selecting a private cell for providing communication to a communication device (222) in a communication system (200) comprising a plurality of private cells (202, 204, 206, 208) comprises identifying (400) private cells availa... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078175 | Method for facilitating a handover of a communication device, communication device, application server for facilitating a handover of a communication device, and communication system arrangement A method for facilitating a handover of a communication device (202) active on a first radio access network (210) to a second radio access network (206) comprises while the communication device is active on the first radio access network (210... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077690 | Resource allocation in cellular communication systems A method for assigning resources to frequency selective (FS) and frequency non-selective (FNS) users, for example, in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system, including assigning a first frequency resource to at least one F... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074150 | Multi-layer cyclic redundancy check code in wireless communication system A wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a transport block with a sequence of bits wherein A is the number of bits, a first cyclic redundancy check (CRC) coder configured to generate a first block of CRC parity bits on a transport bl... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059586 | Mobility management entity tracking for group mobility in wireless communication network A method and apparatus for updating a wireless mobile device with mobility management entity (MME) identification information when the mobile device camps on a mobile relay node (RN), that supports group mobility, connected to a first base station (BS) supported by ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050686 | Method of enabling low tier location applications In a wireless communication network having remote receivers (subscriber units) communicating through base units in a service area, each of the base units servicing a cell area encompasses one or more identifiable zones which can be occupied by receivers. According t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045519 | Scheduling in wireless communication systems A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to le... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032076 | Cellular telephone and multimedia accessory audio system adaptor and methods therefor An audiocassette adapter (10) for coupling a mobile wireless communication station (20) to an audiocassette player, including a cassette head coupling device (12), a cassette adapter insertion detect switch (14), a mobile wireless communi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031680 | Communicating non-scheduling information in wireless networks A wireless communication infrastructure entity 200 and methods therein including assigning a first wireless communication terminal to one or more resources, and sending non-scheduling information to the first wireless communication terminal on an RRBP field i... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7978101 | Encoder and decoder using arithmetic stage to compress code space that is not fully utilized An encoder/decoder architecture including an arithmetic encoder that encodes the MSB portions of a Factorial Pulse Coder output, and that encodes an output of a first-level source encoder, e.g., MDCT. Sub-parts (e.g., frequency bands) of portions (e.g., frames) of t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969356 | Satellite positioning system receivers and methods A satellite positioning system receiver programmed to determine information for a satellite using ephemeris data (710), determine information for the same satellite using almanac data (722), which may have been previously stored on the receiver, to det... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7946775 | Thin keypad assemblies and components for electronics devices and methods A keypad including a plurality of user interface key caps flexibly coupled to a carrier and forming a substantially planar unitary member. The user interface key caps defined by and located between nested slots formed in the substantially planar unitary member where... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944866 | Method and apparatus for offsetting a packet format table A wireless communication infrastructure entity transmits an offset to a packet format table to a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal uses the received offset to determine the transmission characteristics for packets received from the wireless communication infr... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940724 | Network assisted cell reselection in wireless communications systems and methods A method in a mobile wireless communications network including sending (210) a reselection communication from a mobile station to the network, and receiving (220), from the network in response to the reselection communication, cell reselection assistan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929921 | Diversity control in wireless communications devices and methods A wireless communications device (100) includes a primary radio frequency branch (134) and a diversity branch (136), which is enabled and disabled to balance performance and power consumption. Diversity mode operation of the device is controlled... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925784 | Re-direction of streaming multimedia in wireless communication devices in response to low battery level A wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver, a controller having a re-direction output communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver, and a battery device having a battery level output communicably coupled to the controller, wherein the wirele... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920869 | Home network searching when roaming in wireless communications networks A method in a wireless communications device including determining whether the device is operating in a network other than a home network, determining whether to search for the home network when not operating in the home network by comparing network record informati... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7903721 | Allocation of control channel for radio resource assignment in wireless communication systems A wireless communication device for receiving a frame corresponding to a transmission time interval, the frame having a control channel including at least two control channel elements and an embedded bit sequence, the location of which indicates a portion of the con... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7848438 | Method and apparatus for pilot signal transmission A pilot (or reference) transmission scheme is utilized where different transmitters are assigned pilot sequences with possibly different cyclic time shifts. A pilot signal is transmitted concurrently by the transmitters in a plurality of pilot blocks, and a receiver... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7873010 | Control signaling resource assignment in wireless communication networks A method in a wireless communication network scheduling entity including allocating time-frequency radio resources in a sub-frame to a particular wireless communication device, wherein the sub-frame has a time dimension and a frequency dimension spanning a spectrum ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865160 | Mixed mode power measurement calibration and reporting in wireless communication networks A wireless communication user terminal having a receiver for receiving a signal having mixed modulation formats, wherein the terminal measures signal power on a portion of the signal received by the terminal, determines a modulation format on the portion of the sign... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853857 | Multi-layer cyclic redundancy check code in wireless communication system A wireless communication device including a first CRC coder that generates a first block of CRC parity bits on a transport block and associates the first block of CRC parity bits with the transport block, a segmenting entity that segments the transport block into mu... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853220 | Adaptive broadcast multicast systems in wireless communication networks A wireless communication terminal configured to receive broadcast information on a broadcast channel, to start a timer when a reception quality of the received broadcast information degrades below a specified level on the broadcast channel, and to transmit feedback ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839339 | Circular polarized antenna A circular polarized signal receiving antenna includes an active element having first and second ends separated by a gap. A dimension of the active element between the first and second ends thereof corresponds to approximately one wavelength of a resonant operating ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7826825 | Method and apparatus for providing a data protocol voice enabled subscription lock for a wireless communication device A method and system for restricting at least partial usage of a wireless communication device (100), like a mobile telephone, includes attempting to establish a communication channel (105) across a data network, such as non-IMS VoIP communication chann... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7796083 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a global positioning system oscillator A method (200) and apparatus (100) for calibrating a global positioning system oscillator is disclosed. The apparatus may include a global positioning system receiver (120), a temperature compensated oscillator (130) coupled to the global... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787855 | Establishing emergency sessions in packet data networks for wireless devices having invalid subscriber identities A method in a wireless communications network including receiving (310) a network connection request from a subscriber device having an invalid subscriber identity, connecting (340) the subscriber device, from which the network connection request was r... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787562 | Method and apparatus for adaptive modulation of wireless communication signals A block edge detector (310) determines (510) whether a wireless communication transmission with a first modulation having excess spectral emissions will be transmitted at a frequency on a block edge (120). In response, a modulator selector (3... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7747257 | GPS assistance messages in cellular communications networks and methods therefor GPS assistance message and data issue identifiers for transmission to GPS enabled mobile stations in cellular communications networks and methods therefore. The GPS data issue identifiers indicate whether GPS data, for example corresponding ephemeris and almanac dat... | 06/29/2010 |
