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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7616607 | Data preservation A method ensures that data is not lost during an inter-Routing Area or inter-Network Service Entity cell change in a GPRS network. When a mobile station passes from one cell into another, a command is sent from the SGSN to the BSS serving the first cell, causing tha... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7606578 | Method of generating control signals based on location of radio terminals A method of generating a control signal to enable or inhibit a wide variety of applications is provided. The method generally includes the steps of determining the location of a first mobile radio terminal, determining the location of a second mobile radio terminal,... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587600 | Loading data onto an electronic device A method of protecting an electronic device from unauthorized reprogramming, the electronic device comprising a data memory and a key memory, the method comprising loading into the key memory a predetermined public key of a cryptographic public key mechanism for ver... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587009 | Synchronization and estimation of a transmission channel A method of estimating a transmission channel (302) comprises receiving a signal burst, which includes a sequence of training symbols; and determining (305) a desired synchronization position (p) of the training sequence with respect to the received si... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584471 | Plug-in model Method and system for extending and/or modifying functionality of a platform for a product, such as a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system. The system includes a platform domain having a software services component for providing functionality, an... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7584293 | Information transmission rate control across a core network The present invention relates to the information transmission rate between telecommunications nodes. More particularly the invention relates to the control of the rate at which information is transmitted between access nodes separated by a core network. The present ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583760 | Calculation of soft decision values using reliability information of the amplitude Method of, and arrangement and device for, decoding a communications signal in a digital communications system, where the communications signal is modulated according to a modulation scheme including amplitude information; generating a likelihood value for a receive... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7583155 | Random sequence generator A device for generating a random sequence (10) of bits is disclosed. The device comprises oscillating means (13), which will generate a random sequence of bits when biased with a noise signal. The oscillating means comprises at least one oscillator amp... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7558953 | Loading data into a mobile terminal Disclosed is a method of loading data, such as software, into a mobile terminal, where the data is loaded from a loading station, and the data comprises payload data and header data. The mobile terminal accepts the data conditioned on a verification process based on... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558573 | Method and system for handling the transcoding of connections handed off between mobile switching centers A communication system supports multiple source coding and/or channel coding schemes. When a handoff is needed that transfers radiocommunication service support responsibility from a base station controlled by one MSC to a base station controlled by another MSC, sig... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558314 | Method and device for detection of a UMTS signal The present invention relates to a method (and corresponding device) of detecting a first signal in a received signal using a pattern, the received signal comprising at least one signal group, each signal group comprising a number of signal symbols, the pattern comp... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555079 | Method and corresponding arrangement for DC offset compensation using channel estimation A method of determining a DC offset in a communications signal received via a communications channel, the communications signal comprising a sequence of training symbols. The method comprises providing a channel estimate of the communications channel based on said s... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555077 | Method for path-searcher scheduling A method for adaptively scheduling activation of a path-searcher for a mobile terminal operative in a telecommunication system. The mobile terminal is capable of receiving multi-path signals originating from a scattered signal from a transmitter of at least one base... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7536181 | Platform system for mobile terminals A platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system. The platform system comprises a mobile terminal platform assembly including a software services component having a plurality functional software units, a hardware component having a pl... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7526745 | Method for specification and integration of reusable IP constraints A hardware-block constraint specification method includes defining a plurality of hardware-block constraint categories according to at least one of type of constraint and constraint operating mode and defining a plurality of hardware-block constraint commands. Each ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526301 | Method and devices for routing a message to a network server in a server pool Method, devices and computer programs for routing a message to a first network server (MSC1) in a server pool (CNSP) of a mobile communication system are disclosed. The mobile communication system comprises a controller (BSC2) of an access network (AN)... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7511586 | Noise generator A device for generating a noise signal, which may be used for generating a truly random sequence (10) of bits is disclosed. The device comprises a noise source (11), and an amplifier (12) connected to the noise source (11). The device acc... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502930 | Secure communications A method of providing secure communications between a first and a second communications unit comprising a key exchange between the communications units resulting in a shared secret key, the′ key exchange including a user interaction. The method includes the steps ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7480356 | Method of and system for path selection in rich multipath conditions A signal-path-selection method in a RAKE receiver includes producing C channel estimates from M received signal paths, determining a plurality of best signal paths using the C produced channel estimates, choosing A signal paths of the plurality of best signal paths ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480342 | Soft value calculation for multilevel signals A sub-optimal method is disclosed for calculating the reliability values (soft values) for the bits of a multilevel signal. The log-likelihood values are approximated using only the dominant terms, so called max-log approximation, that is for each bit position only ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478395 | Middleware application message/event model System and method for transmitting messages between first and second software components such as application software and software of a platform for a product. An exemplary system includes a platform having a software component and an interface component having an i... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466983 | Overload protection in packet communication networks Methods of handling messages at an interface in a communication system include the steps of receiving a message having an information element indicating the message's type, determining whether a frequency of receipt of messages of a predetermined type exceeds a thre... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466658 | Receiver and method for decoding of truncated data Coded digital data symbols sent from a transmitter through a transmission channel of a communications network are received in a receiver. An estimate, represented by a first number of bits, of a sent data symbol is calculated, and a second number of bits, lower than... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7457237 | Shared risk group handling within a media gateway A media gateway controller (MGC) is described herein that implements a shared risk group package to control and prevent a media gateway (MG) from establishing redundant links like a primary link and a secondary link that use resources that share the same risk of fai... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457280 | Combining narrowband applications with broadband transport The combination of narrowband applications with broadband transport may be enabled with a tri-level nodal communications architecture including a call control node having both switching intelligence and narrowband switching fabric, a plurality of connection control ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7432794 | Variable integrated inductor A variable integrated inductor is described herein which has an inductance value that can be switched between two or more values. In the preferred embodiment, the variable integrated inductor includes a multi-loop primary inductor which is electromagnetically couple... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432772 | Electrical oscillator circuit and an integrated circuit An electrical oscillator circuit (301, 302) comprising: a resonator (303) comprised in the first subcircuit (301); and an active device (309) comprised in the second subcircuit (302) connected to energize the resonator (303)... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426531 | Distributed electronic data processing In a distributed processing system of two or more interconnected CPUs or computers, each having an operating system, wherein different processes are assigned to particular CPUs in a static manner for workload distribution, a novel virtual link handler (VLH) comprisi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426209 | System for content based message processing The present invention provides a packet (400, 410 or 420) having a message (404) and a processing priority (402) associated with the message (404). The processing priority (402) is dynamically changeable by a function operat... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415078 | Demodulation for phase modulation A method and pre-processor for processing a MCPM signal including a phase multiplier for multiplying a MCPM signal by a scaling factor. The pre-processor also includes a frequency shifter for shifting the scaled MCPM signal to create a frequency offset. The pre-proc... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415270 | Middleware services layer for platform system for mobile terminals A middleware services layer for a platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system, the platform system including a mobile terminal platform assembly having a software services component, and application software loaded, installed and r... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412216 | Radio transmitter A radio transmitter includes a transmitter circuit which produces a signal at a first frequency, and has digital divider circuitry, for dividing the first frequency to produce a signal at a second frequency. The noise performance of the digital divider is adjusted, ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411994 | Methods and apparatus for adapting a hop sequence when establishing a communication connection Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a connection between a scanner device and a pager device over a sequence of hop channels. The scanner device is repetitively activated and a hop channel is selected from the sequence of hop channels as a function o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403782 | Data transmission in a telecommunications network A method of optimizing the use of radio resources in the UTRAN 5,19 of a UMTS network 17, and comprising transferring information, relating to changes in the radio resources available to an application 27 at a UE 1,16 and/or relating to c... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403717 | Method and apparatus for first-order polarization mode dispersion compensation Method and apparatus for compensating for first-order Polarization Mode Dispersion in an optical transmission system. An apparatus has a polarization controller for transforming polarization components of an optical signal carried by the optical fiber into orthogona... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394418 | Apparatus comprising a sigma-delta modulator and method of generating a quantized signal-delta modulator A method of generating a quantized signal in a Sigma-Delta modulator (25) comprises the steps of feeding a modulator input signal to a quantizer (15) via at least one integrator (12, 13); generating in the quantizer (15) a quantized signa... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391840 | Phase locked loop circuit, electronic device including a phase locked loop circuit and method for generating a periodic signal A phase locked loop (PLL) circuit (1) comprising a loop input (11); a phase detector section (2) for detecting a phase difference between an input signal and a reference signal. The phase detector section (2) has a detector input connected to th... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386726 | Personal certification authority device A method for public key certification in a local network environment, wherein a personal certification authority associated with the local network environment is connected with a first device needing to be certified. Responsive to the connection, a certificate is pr... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382270 | Method and apparatus for communication between an electronic device and a connected battery An apparatus supporting both identification of a battery type and communications over an interface between a battery and an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a processor for communicating with communications circuitry of the battery. Ide... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379724 | Method and apparatus for classifying interference A mobile communications terminal for use in a cellular communications system such as a CDMA system. The terminal includes an electronic circuit for receiving a wire-less communications signal carrying signal channels having processing means for extracting the signal... | 05/27/2008 |
