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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7656230 | Quadrature output low noise transconductance amplifier having differential input A device for providing low noise transconductance amplification is presented. The device includes a PMOS transconductance section configured to receive a differential RF input signal, a PMOS cascode section coupled to the PMOS transconductance section, an NMOS trans... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7369549 | Adaptive rate prioritizing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve measuring a quality of a transmission from a remote location, identifying a data rate as a function of the measured quality, the identified data rate being capable of... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352868 | Method and apparatus for security in a data processing system Method and apparatus for secure transmissions. Each user is provided a registration key. A long-time updated broadcast key is encrypted using the registration key and provided periodically to a user. A short-time updated key is encrypted using the broadcast key. The... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336949 | International dialing for wireless networks Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to international communications over a network. The systems and techniques involve retrieving information from a network, identifying an international access code related to the retrieved information, and placing an inte... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7302060 | Method and application for authentication of a wireless communication using an expiration marker Systems and methods of securing wireless communications between a network and a subscriber station are disclosed. One embodiment creates authentication triplets due to expire after a certain amount of time such that they may not be used indefinitely by an attacker w... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286510 | Method and apparatus for providing compatibility between elements of a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for resolving incompatibilities between system elements in a communication system supporting Mobile Internet Protocol communications. The method providing both forward and backward compatibility between system elements having different versions ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280562 | Variable packet lengths for high packet data rate communications Method and apparatus for variable length Physical Layer (PL) packet generation. Multiple Security Layer (SL) packets may be multiplexed into a single PL packet to increase efficiency, wherein the SL packets may have variable lengths. In one embodiment, different for... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277455 | Packet flow processing in a communication system Method and apparatus for processing packet flows in a communication system. In one embodiment, a resource reservation message includes packet flow parameter information used to determine flow treatment of the associated packet flow. The packet flow mapping is based ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7202819 | Tapered multiband antenna Embodiments disclosed herein address the need in the art for a relatively small multi-band antenna. In one aspect, an antenna poise comprises an element, one edge of which is tapered from the connection point of a counterpoise to a second edge of the element. In ano... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193575 | Wideband antenna with transmission line elbow An antenna (100) includes overlapping conductive plates (102, 104) having a radiating end (112) and a feed end (114). The plates include partially overlapping edges (106) that flare away from each other as each edge progresses towa... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190962 | Networked wireless communications device programmed to identify and eliminate probable multipath errors to enhance accuracy in correcting sleep clock for thermally induced errors A method for correcting operation of the sleep oscillator (116) of a wireless communications device (100). Sleep oscillator frequency is estimated (412) so as to compensate for estimated temperature induced errors. In estimating temperature indu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184426 | Method and apparatus for burst pilot for a time division multiplex system In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station tra... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184954 | Method and apparatus for detecting bad data packets received by a mobile telephone using decoded speech parameters A speech signal is decoded by a vocoder and the reconstructed speech samples are provided to a decoded frame check unit. The decoded frame check unit examines the energy of the reconstructed speech and compares the energy of the reconstructed speech to a range of ac... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173974 | Method and apparatus for computing soft decision input metrics to a turbo decoder A method and apparatus for computing soft decision input metrics to a turbo decoder includes circuits associated with eight-ary phase shift keyed (8PSK) modulation and sixteen-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM). In both implementations log-likelihood ratio ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7158537 | Method and apparatus for providing configurable layers and protocols in a communications system The layers and protocols of an air interface layering architecture are designed to be modular and can be modified and upgraded to support new features, perform complex tasks, and implement additional functionality. Prior to commencement of data communication between... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155246 | Transmitter directed code division multiple access system using multi-users diversity to maximize throughput while equitably providing access to users A transmitter directed, distributed receiver using multi-user diversity provided by the distribution of the receiver. Advantage is taken of the uncorrelated variations over time in the condition of communication links between a common transmitter and several users. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155235 | Method and apparatus for conserving home agent resources in mobile IP deployment A method and apparatus for conserving home agent resources in mobile Internet Protocol (IP) deployment is disclosed. In a wireless communication system supporting mobile IP, a release candidate set is generated and updated during operation of the network. When an in... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155231 | Transmit pre-correction in a wireless communication system Techniques for pre-correction of transmit signals are disclosed. In one aspect, a transmit antenna array configurable to generate multiple transmit beams is deployed. The parameters for configuring the antenna array are computed in response to channel estimates and ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149264 | CDMA pilot assisted channel estimation A pilot assisted channel estimation process. A receiver may be configured to estimate the impulse response of a channel from a signal having pilot tones and spread-spectrum pilot signals. The receiver estimates the response of the channel from the pilot tones, and a... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139274 | Method and system for a data transmission in a communication system Methods and apparatus for a data transmission in a communication system are disclosed. Each of a subset of plural access terminals desiring to transmit user data in an interval transmits a request to transmit in the interval to an access network. The access network ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139259 | Method and apparatus for conveying reports for SMS messages in wireless communication systems Techniques for conveying reports for SMS messages in wireless communication networks that utilize CDMA air interface (e.g., GSM1x and CDMA networks). Two new messages SMS Deliver Report Message and SMS Submit Report Message are defined for CDMA SMS. These report mes... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136428 | Systems and techniques for measuring the performance of a communications system Systems and techniques for measuring the performance of a communications channel is disclosed which includes receiving a signal from the communications channel, filtering the signal, estimating a bias introduced by the filtering of the signal, and computing a parame... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130334 | Method and apparatus for a pilot search using a matched filter The present invention includes a cellular pilot signal detector or searcher for use in a cellular mobile communications unit. The signal detector uses a matched filter to detect a pilot signal transmitted from a cellular base station. The matched filter includes a p... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130626 | Access terminal identification management Access terminal identification management providing a minimum distance between subnets before reusing subnet identifiers. Mobility criteria evaluation determines when to reassign an access terminal identifier. In one embodiment, the mobility criteria is whether any ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127654 | Method and an apparatus for a quick retransmission of signals in a communication system A method and an apparatus for quick retransmission of signals in a communication system are disclosed. A transmitting terminal, e.g., a base station, transmits signals in a form of packets to a receiving terminal, e.g., a subscriber station. The receiving terminal d... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127447 | Method and apparatus for preferred roaming list compression Techniques for efficient storage and retrieval of Preferred Roaming Lists are disclosed. In one aspect, PRL entries are stored in two tables. One table contains records that are common to two or more PRL entries. Another table stores any information that is unique t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126930 | Method and apparatus for transmitting messages in a wireless communication system Techniques to reduce transmit power required for transmission of messages from an access terminal to reduce interference to transmissions from other access terminals. In one aspect, messages to be transmitted are defined and/or coded such that they may be detected a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123922 | Transmitter directed code division multiple access system using path diversity to equitably maximize throughput A transmitter directed, distributed receiver using path diversity provided by the distribution of the receiver. Advantage is taken of the uncorrelated variations over time in the condition of channels between a common transmitter and several users. The greater the v... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106813 | Method and apparatus for combined soft-decision based interference cancellation and decoding A method of communications channel coding gain optimization using combined ISI cancellation and turbo decoding is provided. Log-likelihood ratio probabilities with extrinsic values are computed from previous iterations of turbo decoding and used to compute the soft-... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106792 | Method and apparatus for estimating the signal to interference-plus-noise ratio of a wireless channel Method and apparatus that compensates for overestimation of channel SINR due to overfitting of an adaptive equalizer to the pilot portion of a received frame. The SINR of a wireless channel is estimated by adapting an adaptive equalizer using the pilot portion of th... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106782 | Method and apparatus for rotating a phase of a modulated signal Techniques to adjust the phase rotation of a modulated signal to compensate for the phase rotation introduced by circuit elements associated with the transmit signal path. In one implementation, at least one control signal is received, with each control signal being... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106779 | Method and apparatus for providing configurable layers and protocols in a communications system The layers and protocols of an air interface layering architecture are designed to be modular and can be modified and upgraded to support new features, perform complex tasks, and implement additional functionality. Prior to commencement of data communication between... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106713 | Method of rate allocation in a data communications network A novel method is disclosed for the allocation of the capacity of a common channel among a number of data producers. In this method, a producer's future allocation grant is based on the extent to which the producer has used a previous allocation grant. The method is... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099629 | Method and apparatus for adaptive transmission control in a high data rate communication system In a high data rate communication system, a method and apparatus for efficiently establishing a connection between an access terminal and an access network using a fast access channel and a fast access indicator. Upon receiving a fast access indicator in response to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099384 | Method and apparatus for time-division power assignments in a wireless communication system In a CDMA data communication system capable of variable rate data transmission, a time-division power assignment cyclically reduces the carrier power level to at least one sector to reduce interference in neighboring sectors. The base station determines a time-divis... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096261 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple quality of service levels in a wireless packet data services connection The packets generated by each of multiple packet data applications are provided to a single Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) stack and a single High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) framing layer to convert data packets into byte streams suitable for transmission through... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095725 | Method and apparatus for data transmission on a reverse link in a communication system Systems and methods for decreasing delays and thereby improving the performance of data transmissions in wireless communication systems by enabling increased data transmission rates to be selected for a reverse link between an access terminal and an access network. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092717 | Method and system for a dynamic adjustment of a data request channel in a communication system Method and a system method and system for a dynamic adjustment of a data request channel in a communication system are disclosed. A value of at least one variable affecting the data request channel margin is determined in accordance with conditions in the communicat... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089257 | Method and system for providing a unified data exchange and storage format A method and system is presented that provides for a unified format for both data exchange and data storage protocols in a network. The unified data format provides for an efficient protocol for receiving, parsing, decoding, and storing varying sizes of real-time da... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088701 | Method and apparatus for adaptive transmission control in a high data rate communication system In a high data rate communication system, a method and apparatus for improved throughput while transmitting data packets within multiple time slots. In order to avoid unnecessary retransmissions of a packet, a subscriber station sends a Stop-Repeat signal to a base ... | 08/08/2006 |
