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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185268 | User interface for a vehicle installed communication device A radio communication device (100) for use in a public safety vehicle is provided with a user interface that combines tactile landmarks in the form of global tactile landmarks and local tactile landmarks along with affordances to orient a user's hand and fing... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170593 | Apparatus, method, and system for channel selection and allocation in mobile communications A mobile communication system (100) includes a plurality of mobile stations (104, 105), a serving base station (101) and, associated with the base station, a channel selector (220, 309) for selecting and allocating downlink wireless traff... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170231 | Adjustable accessory for a portable communication device A user wearable accessory provides push-to-tall (PTT), microphone and adjustable electrical cord length features in a single device. First and second adjustable electrical cords couple a portable communication device to an earpiece. The accessory is formed of front ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160004 | Method for optimizing spatial diversity gain of a set of nodes used for cooperative sensing A group of nodes used for sensing in a cooperative sensing communication system (100) are selected from nodes (104-112) associated with a base station (102) operating in secondary communication mode. The group has a spatial diversity gain... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155033 | Opportunistic spectrum sensing optimization for a communication system A combination of subscriber clustering and link interleaving provides a cognitive radio system (CR) 100 with opportunities to sense an incumbent system's spectrum on secondary basis. The CR system (100) uses clustering to identify out-of-band channels.... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150476 | Battery interface assembly for a communication device A battery interface assembly for a communication device (100), such as a portable radio, is provided to ensure a reliable interconnection between battery contacts (230) and radio contacts (108). Communication device (100) includes a casti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150328 | Method and apparatus for distributed sensing management and control within a cognitive radio network A technique for spectrum sensing management and control for a secondary communication system seeking to utilize another communication system's spectrum is provided (600). Sensor control data is sent from a base station to subscriber units (604). Sensin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145230 | Context-image distributed spectrum allocation scheme for cognitive radios A method (300) and cognitive radio (CR) wireless device (102) are provided for dynamically accessing spectrum in an opportunistic spectrum access wireless communication system (100). The method includes: transmitting, from a CR wireless device, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140085 | Method and apparatus for optimizing spectrum utilization by a cognitive radio network A technique for a secondary communication system to utilize spectrum designated to another (or primary) communication system is provided. By ranking a plurality of secondary base stations based on base station transmit power, calculated required transmit power and p... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140017 | Signal detection in cognitive radio systems A cognitive radio wireless device (114) dynamically manages signal detection in a cognitive radio system (100). Spectrum sensing is performed for a first sensing frame on at least one communication channel. At least one observed signal is received (... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135424 | Method to improve diversity gain in a cooperative spectrum sensing network A cooperative sensing technique (300) operates by selecting a group of subscribers (302) from a secondary system, measuring a cooperative sensing metric (306) and then using the metric to identify an achievable spatial diversity gain for the gro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134393 | Method and apparatus for correcting phase offset errors in a communication device A frequency synthesizer that utilizes locked loop circuitry, for example delay locked loop and/or phase locked loop circuits is provided with a means for minimizing static phase/delay errors. An auto-tuning circuit and technique provide a measurement of static phase... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131304 | Dynamic spectrum allocation (DSA) in a communication network A method of dynamically allocating RF communication channels to a wireless communication device (102). A plurality of dynamic spectrum allocation (DSA) channels (222, 224) can be identified. The DSA channels can be channels that are available to a non-... | 03/06/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8129983 | Method and apparatus for controlling charging of a battery in a communication device The application discloses a method and apparatus for controlling the charging of a battery in a communication device. The method includes sensing temperature of the battery while charging the battery, and determining that the temperature is greater than a predetermi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121241 | Method and apparatus for processing radio frequency signals A method and apparatus for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal is provided. The method includes generating a periodic square wave local oscillator (LO) signal of a first phase, a periodic square wave LO signal of a second phase, and a chopping signal. The metho... | 02/21/2012 |
| D654035 | Communication device | 02/14/2012 |
| D653637 | Communication device | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107887 | Narrowband system and method for defining narrowband wideband channels in unused wideband channels A narrowband communication system (100) includes a base station (102) and a plurality of subscriber units (104). The base station assigns one or more wideband channels to be measured to each subscriber unit (606). The subscriber units tun... | 01/31/2012 |
| D653225 | Portable radio housing | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102667 | Method and apparatus for spatially optimizing surface mount pads on a ball grid array package Method and apparatus for spatially optimizing the arrangement of surface mount pads on a ball grid array package. An array containing T surface mount pads with a diameter less than or equal to 0.4 millimeter is arranged in an array of rows and columns less than or e... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8078217 | Modular multi-sided radio architecture A multi-sided radio (200) includes an audio centric side (210) including a speaker (208) operationally independent of functions on an opposing side, a data centric side (220) on the opposing side of the audio centric side, and a top contr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068826 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmit power and incumbent protection in a cognitive radio system A cognitive radio (CR) device (208 and/or 218) avoids interference with an incumbent (207) receiver by determining maximum allowed transmit power levels of the CR device based on estimates of the incumbent signal level and transmit splatter leve... | 11/29/2011 |
| D649532 | Audio control accessory | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064480 | Method and apparatus for providing interoperability between a first protocol and a second protocol The application discloses a method and apparatus for providing interoperability for a mobile subscriber unit (MSU), employing a first protocol e.g., SCEP, with a packet-data subsystem operating at a second protocol e.g., SNDCP. The method includes determining that t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060104 | Coexistence and incumbent protection in a cognitive radio network A method (300, 400) and a communication system (104, 106, 200) for dynamic RF spectrum allocation among a plurality of RF transmitters (108, 110, 112). A message can be received from a first communication system. The message can include a reques... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059777 | Method and apparatus for generating phase shifted local oscillator signals for a feedback loop on a transmitter A transmitter is provided with a local oscillator (LO) processing unit to maintain stability in the transmitter's feedback loop. The LO processing unit includes at least one delay locked loop (DLL) and a programmable divider to generate phase shifted LO signals for ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059619 | Mobile communication system and a mobile station, a base transceiver station and a method for use therein A mobile communication system (100) includes an infrastructure (121) including at least a first base transceiver station (123) and a plurality of mobile stations (101, 103), wherein each of the mobile stations is operable to detect interf... | 11/15/2011 |
| 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 |
| 8023978 | Method for providing enhanced floor control for group calls between a dispatch communications network and a cellular telephone communications network A method for providing enhanced floor control (500) between a dispatch communications network and a cellular telephone communications network includes transmitting a transmit delay message (517) by a network control entity (505) to a communicati... | 09/20/2011 |
| D645009 | Communication device | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014345 | Incumbent spectrum hold device A monitoring device (141) can include a transceiver (202) to receive a radio signal, and a controller (203) communicatively coupled to the transceiver to detect an infringement on the radio signal and report the infringement to a database. One o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014337 | Method and system for wireless multi-hopping communication A method (400) and system (100) for a wireless multi-hopping communication system is provided, wherein the system (100) includes an access point (102), a source node (CR1), and a plurality of nodes. The source node (CR1 | 09/06/2011 |
| 7952881 | Thermal-electrical assembly for a portable communication device A thermal-electrical assembly (200) provides with improved heat sinking, electrical shielding and electrical grounding. The thermal-electrical assembly is configured using a shield (202) having a windowed aperture (204), a pliable frame (206 | 05/31/2011 |
| 7933427 | Method and system for equal acoustics porting A device (300) and method (600) for equal audio porting is provided. The device can include a first side with at least one first audio port (182) providing a data communication aspect, a second side with at least one second audio port (184 | 04/26/2011 |
| D635946 | Communication device | 04/12/2011 |
| D635945 | Communication device | 04/12/2011 |
| D632269 | Communication device | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881737 | Method and apparatus for acquiring and establishing a deployable communication system A radio deployment pack (110) includes a plurality of radios and deployable infrastructure package within a single package. The package is created by placing an order including the selection of frequency band of operation and either stand-alone mode infrastru... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881726 | Method and apparatus for spectrum sharing between an incumbent communications system and a cognitive radio system Efficient frequency spectrum sharing between at least one incumbent communication system(s) (102, 152) and at least one cognitive radio (CR) system (105) is provided. The incumbent system's system parameters and CR system's operational requirements are... | 02/01/2011 |
