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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165545 | Terminal for use in a wireless communication system and a method of operation thereof A terminal (200) and method for operation thereof for use in a wireless communication system (100), the terminal including a plurality of antennas (215, 235, 255) and a plurality of receiver chains (217, 237, 257) each including an associ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155615 | Generation of a composite mitigation signal with a desired spectral energy distrubution A method (1100, 1200) of generating a composite mitigation signal (216, 902, 1002) is presented. The composite mitigation signal includes an odd integer (N) of transitions (310, 312) between a first amplitude and a second amplitude of the compos... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155056 | Method and apparatus for controlling traffic congestion in a wireless communication network In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus for controlling traffic congestion includes determining that the traffic congestion at a plurality of geographical locations in the wireless communication network is above a predetermined threshold value. At... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150438 | Method for initiating a communication while participating in another communication Within a two way radio frequency communication system, a repeater transmits an identity of a rest channel when transmitting during an active communication call on a channel other than the rest channel. A subscriber unit communicating within the active communication,... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149737 | Method and system for data transmission in a wireless network A method and system for data transmission by computational devices in a wireless network (100) are disclosed. A computational device (102) organizes the wireless network in a hierarchical topology having at least one root node and updates a list of int... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144672 | Wireless wide area broadband coverage in a vehicular area network (VAN) The disclosure relates to techniques and technologies for providing mobile wireless broadband coverage. In one implementation, Wireless Wide Area Broadband (WWAB) network elements are provided in a Vehicular Area Network (VAN) that also includes a Mobile Network Con... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135432 | Method and system for managing a communication link in a communication network A method and apparatus for managing a communication link in a communication network are provided. A continuous actuation button is configured to initiate a communication link between communication devices. The communication link is initiated when a force applied on ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130713 | System and method for credit-based channel transmission scheduling (CBCTS) Credit based channel transmission scheduling (CBCTS) of packet data units (PDUs) on a downlink channel is provided based on priority, quantity, and timing efficiency. The CBCTS technique includes initializing a set of credit accounts with a set of credit values. Cre... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130153 | Electronic device and electronic assembly An electronic assembly and electronic device used for radio frequency communications are presented. The electronic device has a housing and an antenna feed point at least partially enclosed in the housing. There is at least one circuit board enclosed in the housing.... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122090 | Method for requesting the termination of a communication session A method for terminating a communication session is present. During a communication session in which communication devices are in communication through a server, one of the devices decides to terminate the session. This device generates a first message requesting pe... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121615 | Mobile station, wireless communication system and method of operation A mobile station (105, 200) operable in a wireless communication system (100), the mobile station including means (218, 202 of 105) for reporting to a location server (104) of the system a current location of the mobile station and... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116284 | Method, device and system for temporarily selecting a timeslot Temporarily selecting a TDMA timeslot by a radio communication device to thereby allow the radio communication device to communicate, through at least one repeater station, with a talkgroup of other radio communication devices is disclosed. The radio communication d... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116230 | Establishing communication pathways between infrastructure devices in a group communication system implemented over a wide area network A method and apparatus is provided for establishing communication pathways between infrastructure devices in a wide area communication network prior to transmission of a group message packet by a source wireless communication device (WCD). In one implementation, the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115690 | Coupled multiband antenna Free space antenna structures are presented in which multiple radiating elements are disposed proximate to each other. In a structure containing two radiating elements, the radiating element of shorter wavelength is split into a monopole and a dipole that are electr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111913 | Countermeasures against original background retrieval A device and method of modifying an image containing a foreground and an original or substitute background are disclosed. Boundary pixels contain only the original background or the original background and the foreground. The original background is replaced by a pre... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111843 | Compensation for nonuniform delayed group communications A method for synchronizing audio reproduction in collocated end devices is presented. Each of the devices auto-correlates using noise to determine a threshold prior to the antenna receiving an audio signal. When the devices receive a common audio signal, they provid... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103298 | Multiple PTT functionality A communication device and method are presented. The device is in a network of devices of different groups. The device contains a push-to-talk (PTT) button, a channel selector, and a keyboard containing hard or soft keys. The channel selector selects an initial freq... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095410 | Pass through for improved response time Method and systems of improving the response of public safety personnel to or evacuation from a desired location are provided. In addition to path information obtained through traditional sources, information is used to determine the optimal route for emergency pers... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095160 | Intermediate station and method for facilitating handover in a multi-hop communication system An intermediate station and method for facilitating handover in a multi-hop communications system is disclosed. The method may include receiving a handover trigger, finding a target station to receive handover, determining whether the handover requires a timing chan... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095140 | Regrouping wireless devices The present invention provides a method of switching a number of wireless devices to a common channel. The method comprises automatically broadcasting location coordinates for an initiator wireless devices to the other wireless devices in response to receiving an in... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090051 | Combined feedback and feed-forward linearization of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers A power amplifier module and corresponding system for linearizing the output from a power amplifier includes both a feedback system, containing a compensator and the power amplifier in a feedback loop, and a pre-distortion compensation system injecting pre-distortio... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089863 | RF site resilience using multiple visitor location registers simultaneously A method and system are presented in which communication redundancy is provided. Multicast packets having the same audio and/or control data are simultaneously transmitted between an RF site and different switches through different communication links. The packets f... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081635 | Reconstruction of errored media streams in a communication system A method for reconstructing and reproducing a received media stream while minimizing storage space is presented. The media stream transmitted by a transmitting device is uploaded to an external storage device. Metadata including packetization mapping information, mi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8036716 | Temporary storage or specialized transmission of multi-microphone signals A communication device contains multiple microphones that receive acoustic signals from a user and from the background. The acoustic signals from the user are enhanced using the background acoustic signals to reduce background noise. The enhanced signal are transmit... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032169 | System and method for providing low overhead floor control in a distributed peer-to-peer communications network A system and method for providing low overhead floor control in a distributed control two-way radio communications network (200) including one or more subscriber stations (201,205, 213, 215, 217) and one or more peer stations (203, 207, 211) int... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027651 | Method and apparatus for removing DC offset in a direct conversion receiver A method and apparatus for correcting direct current (DC) offset errors of a received signal in a direct conversion receiver (DCR) are provided. DC offset correction algorithms are incorporated into the DCR, each algorithm being optimized for a particular receive si... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027640 | Acoustic suppression using ancillary RF link Methods and systems are described in which the feedback between a transmitter and collocated receiver is reduced so that the overall feedback loop gain is less than 0 dB. Audio is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver through a primary RF link while RSSI ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019278 | Wireless communication system, portable radio repeater and magazine therefor A wireless communication system and portable radio repeater are described. The system includes a portable magazine having multiple portable radio repeaters disposed therein. One or more of the repeaters are automatically or manually ejected based on a received signa... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7986692 | System and method for transmitting call information in a communication system with long link delays A system and method for transmitting call information in a communication system having sites with long link delays. Upon a call being initiated within the communication system, a zone controller determines the participating sites that are to be involved in the call ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983158 | Routing topology bandwidth management methods and system A system for facilitating bandwidth management in a routing domain is presented. In the system, area bandwidth managers are coupled to a domain bandwidth manager and arranged in accordance with an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) hierarchical routing topology with th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7945264 | Mobile station, system and method for use in cellular communications A mobile station (107, 200) for use in a cellular communication system (100) includes a processor (214) operable to determine whether the mobile station should undergo cell re-selection by handover from a first base station (101) to a sec... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937068 | Emergency dispatch management and prioritization of communication resources A method and system for adaptively allocating shared communication resources in response to an emergency event are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a response zone 115 associated with an emergency event and dispatching emer... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7899193 | Time aligned group audio reproduction in narrowband and broadband networks A method for synchronizing media reproduction across heterogeneous networks is presented. The networks include end-to-end IP broadband and narrowband simulcast networks that contain broadband and narrowband devices associated with a common communications group. A co... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894377 | Method and system for group communications A method and system for group communications is described. The system includes a plurality of endpoints and at least one group entity that receives from an initiating endpoint, using a transactional protocol, a first message requesting an initiation of a session bet... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893814 | Method and apparatus for tracking items on a conveyer using capacitive RFID A method and apparatus are described for facilitation of radio frequency (RF) communication between a radio frequency identification (RFID) device and RFID tags for a conveyer system. The RFID device is positioned in proximity of the conveyor system. At least one co... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885606 | Assisted measurement survey of a wireless communication network An apparatus and method for providing measurement assistance in a survey of a wireless communication network includes a first step (1) of defining a scope of measurement targets to complete the survey. A next step (2) includes measuring an RF parameter... | 02/08/2011 |
| D632269 | Communication device | 02/08/2011 |
| 7872514 | Latch circuit and clock signal dividing circuit Latch circuit and clock signal dividing circuit comprises sequentially connected latch circuits. Each latch circuit has D-type latch with latch clock input, data input and data output. A difference detector is coupled to D-type latch, and has a difference output tha... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865717 | Method and apparatus for dynamic, seamless security in communication protocols Communication nodes, acting as intermediate routers for communication packets transmitted between a source node and a destination node, are provided with different access rights to the fields of the routed communication packets. Routes of intermediate routers betwee... | 01/04/2011 |
