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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160563 | Method and apparatus for controlling response to service notifications in a network environment Methods and apparatus for providing service notifications in a network environment. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide a notification system. The method includes obtaining notification information, determining a response factor, generating a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7653037 | System and method for distributing wireless network access parameters A system and method are provided for distributing wireless network access parameters in a multi-mode communications user terminal (UT). The method includes: establishing a link between a UT and a first communications network (i.e., a cellular network); accessing a p... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7643830 | Methods and apparatus for soft-decision based inter-radio access technology handover triggering Methods, apparatus, processors and computer readable medium for inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover are provided that incorporate a soft-decision making process. By implementing configurable functions, soft-decision making allows for handover measurement li... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7633898 | Mobile IP addressing A system and method are provided for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, in a multi-mode wireless communications access terminal (AT). The method provides an AT with an IP address (ATA), and a care-of-address (CoA) in each of a plurality of networks. In one as... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7092716 | Idle mode handling in a hybrid GSM/CDMA network In a mobile wireless telecommunications system, which includes base stations (30) of a first type operating over a first air interface, and base stations (32) of a second type operating over a second air interface, a method for reselection by a mobile ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065129 | Acquisition of a gated pilot by avoiding partial correlation peaks Systems and techniques are disclosed wherein a gated pilot signal can be acquired faster by checking the neighbor pilot signals of the target pilot signal. A subscriber station may frequency lock onto a wrong pilot burst because a partial correlation exists between ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6985727 | Method and apparatus for optimizing search rate and finger assignment rate Systems and techniques for optimizing search rate and finger assignment rate when fading is varying in order to obtain an optimum solution between better system capacity and processor utilization. A maximum search rate and finger assignment rate are used when the mo... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6965585 | Base station synchronization for handover in a hybrid GSM/CDMA network A mobile wireless telecommunications system includes base stations of a first type operating according to a first air interface, and base stations of a second type operating according to a second air interface. Methods and apparatus are provided for handing over a m... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6909722 | Method and apparatus for proportionately multiplexing data streams onto one data stream A method and system that enables proportionately multiplexing a plurality of data stream into one data stream is disclosed. A mobile station has applications that produce separate data streams. Example applications include voice, signaling, E-mail and web applicatio... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6853843 | Method of handoff within a telecommunications system containing digital base stations with different spectral capabilities The present invention is directed to a digital wireless telecommunications system that includes a plurality of base station of differing spectral capabilities, and a plurality of remote stations capable of transmitting data to and receiving transmissions from the pl... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6850499 | Method and apparatus for forward power control in a communication system In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, the data rate is determined by the largest C/I measurement of the forward link signals as measured at the Access Terminal. In one embodiment, the data transmission is scheduled based on an Access ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847623 | Method and apparatus for allocating data streams onto a single channel A method and system that enables multiplexing a plurality of data streams onto one data stream based on data stream priorities and available transport frame combinations (TFCs) is disclosed. A mobile station has applications that produce separate data streams. Examp... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6807161 | Method and apparatus for signal combining in a high data rate communication system Reverse link busy bits are independently generated by each base station and indicate whether a base station has reached a reverse link capacity limit. A remote station combines multipath components of the reverse link busy bits in its Active Set and in response tran... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804210 | Method and apparatus for signal combining in a high data rate communication system Reverse link busy bits are independently generated by each base station and indicate whether a base station has reached a reverse link capacity limit. A remote station combines multipath components of the reverse link busy bits in its Active Set and in response tran... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6788685 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power in a CDMA communication system Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power in a closed loop power control system, wherein power control commands are based on the energy of the previous power control commands. In one embodiment, the method compares changes in the received energy of rec... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6680926 | Method and apparatus for signal combining in a high data rate communication system Reverse link busy bits are independently generated by each base station and indicate whether a base station has reached a reverse link capacity limit. A remote station combines multipath components of the reverse link busy bits in its Active Set and in re... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6678257 | Methods and apparatus for allocation of power to base station channels A method and apparatus that determines how much power to allocate to each of a plurality of reverse link power control (RLPC) Channels to be transmitted from a base station, based upon data rate control (DRC) messages transmitted to the base station. The ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6675347 | Method and apparatus for combined puncturing and repeating of code symbols in a communications system Techniques for puncturing symbols in a communications system are disclosed. S symbols are received for a frame having a capacity of N symbols, with S being greater than N. P symbols need to be punctured so that remaining symbols fit into the frame. A numb... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6636568 | Data transmission with non-uniform distribution of data rates for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system Techniques to determine data rates for a number of data streams transmitted via a number of transmission channels (or transmit antennas) in a multi-channel (e.g., MIMO) communication system. In one method, the "required" SNR for each data rate to be used ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6618375 | Radio link protocol frame sorting mechanism for dynamic capacity wireless data channels The present invention is a novel and improved method and system that prevents RLP3E from generating unnecessary NAKs, thus preventing unnecessary data frame retransmissions. The present invention is efficient, neither delaying the delivery of data frames ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6614850 | Method and apparatus for puncturing code symbols in a communications system Techniques for puncturing symbols in a communications system. S symbols are received for a frame having a capacity of N symbols, with S being greater than N. P symbols need to be punctured so that remaining symbols fit into the frame. A number of puncture... | 09/02/2003 |
