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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185809 | Multi-output packet server with independent streams A method of serving content to multiple clients via a network is provided. Independent sessions with each of a plurality of clients are maintained, wherein the number of clients in the plurality of clients can vary over time, and wherein the start of each session an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184607 | Preamble channel decoding Rather than attaching a preamble to a data traffic subpacket, a preamble channel is transmitted along with a traffic channel. In a system wherein the data traffic subpackets are variably sized, preambles can also be variably sized if a target station can decode vari... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175594 | Active set management with hotspot carriers Techniques for managing communications in a cellular network are disclosed. The cellular network can include one or more sectors in which hotspot carriers are deployed. The hotspot carriers can be available to mobile devices beyond sector boundaries defined by the s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160039 | Communications methods and apparatus for use in communicating with access routers and/or other devices acting as communications peers Methods and apparatus for performing peer to peer communications with access routers and non-access router peer devices are described. An access terminal generates a channel estimate estimating the channel between the access terminal and an access router. For at lea... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144812 | Best frame derivation in a wireless communications network A communications node can receive a plurality of communication signals, each including a block of data estimates with respective quality metrics. Each block of data estimates can be derived from an original block of data sent over different wireless paths, or from a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134413 | Low-power oscillator Techniques for synthesizing a signal having a desired frequency from an oscillation signal. In an aspect, a reference signal having a known frequency may be periodically used to determine a ratio between the desired frequency and the frequency of the oscillation sig... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132072 | System and method for providing H-ARQ rate compatible codes for high throughput applications In one embodiment, the present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to generate low rate protographs from high rate protographs, comprising copying a base graph; permuting end points of edges of a same type in copies of the base graph to produce a per... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131867 | Dynamic layer congestion control for multicast transport A multicasting system provides congestion control for multicasting using a dynamic layer scheme, where the aggregate sending rates of layers decline over time. Multicast packets are transmitted to layers that are joined by at least one host. A host maintains a recep... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122139 | Scheduling of multiple files for serving on a server Multiple files a served using a server coupled to a data network. A plurality of files is determined, wherein a file includes an integer number of blocks, and wherein each block includes at least one input symbol. For each file, an indication of at least one channel... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107441 | Method and apparatus for generating control information for packet data Systems and techniques for communications wherein a data packet is transmitted over at least one time slot from a transmission site, a value is computed from an initial value and information, the initial value being a function of the number of time slots of the data... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8085865 | Method and apparatus for providing high speed data communications in a cellular environment A method and apparatus for transmitting digital data in a cellular environment. Adjacent cells of the cellular system are prevented from simultaneously transmitting data. Because the noise from transmissions of adjacent cells is a primary source of interference, the... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8065582 | FEC streaming with aggregation of concurrent streams for FEC computation Transmitters and receivers deal with streams of data, wherein the receiver is expected to begin using received data before receiving all of the data. Concurrent streams are sent and FEC coding is used with the streams and done as an aggregate. The transmitter perfor... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046018 | Non-transitory storage medium with stored instructions for channelization of a dedicated physical channel in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for determining a transmission configuration for a dedicated channel in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, an optimum configuration is determined based on minimizing Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) of the channel. The configuration ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8009617 | Beamforming of control information in a wireless communication system Techniques for sending traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a Node B or a UE) may perform beamforming to send traffic data on M layers based on a precoding matrix, where M may be o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006160 | Efficient encoding and decoding methods for representing schedules and processing forward error correction codes A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7983363 | Receiver for the geosynchronous (GEO) satellite reverse link using tail-biting code A receiver for the geosynchronous (GEO) satellite reverse link, which uses the tail-biting convolutional code for error control, and methods to solve the problem of channel estimation is described. The channel estimate is initialized at each state using the pilot ch... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983325 | Decoding of the overhead channels of the geosynchronous (GEO) satellite reverse link A power efficient technique is used to demodulate the coded overhead channels of a geosynchronous (GEO) satellite uplink. A coherent receiver used in a wireless communication system is able to determine the information conveyed in the overhead channel, by effecting ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7971129 | Code generator and decoder for communications systems operating using hybrid codes to allow for multiple efficient users of the communications systems A method of encoding data for transmissions from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. The method operates on an ordered set of source symbols and may generate zero or more redundant symbols from the source symbols, wherein data is enc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957343 | Motion-aware mobile time and frequency tracking A method is provided for compensating for clock drift error and movement error of an access terminal. A forward link error is obtained that is attributable to at least a first error (e.g., clock drift error) component and a second error (e.g., movement error) compon... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956772 | Methods and apparatus employing FEC codes with permanent inactivation of symbols for encoding and decoding processes A method of encoding data for transmission from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. A plurality of encoded symbols are generated from a set of input symbols including source symbols and redundant symbols, wherein the input symbols ar... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949066 | Method and apparatus for providing high speed data communications in a cellular environment A method and apparatus for transmitting digital data in a cellular environment. Adjacent cells of the cellular system are prevented from simultaneously transmitting data. Because the noise from transmissions of adjacent cells is a primary source of interference, the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940832 | Method and apparatus for efficient Walsh covering and summing of signals in a communication system A method and apparatus is provided for efficient processing of signal in a communication system. The processing of the signal for transmission may include encoding a block of data at an encoding rate 1/R. The encoding produces R number of data symbols for every data... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7814399 | Apparatus and method of early decoding in communication systems A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a frame of interleaved information bits in a communication system, where the decoding of the frame of interleaved information bits may begin before all of the bits in the frame are received. An exemplary interleaved f... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812743 | Information additive code generator and decoder for communication systems An encoder uses an input file of data and a key to produce an output symbol. An output symbol with key I is generated by determining a weight, W(I), for the output symbol to be generated, selecting W(I) of the input symbols associated with the output symbol accordin... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7756085 | Steps one and three W-CDMA and multi-mode searching Techniques for efficient searching in asynchronous systems, such as W-CDMA, as well as multi-mode searching, are disclosed. In one aspect, step one and step three search are performed in a single search engine. In another aspect, a search engine is configurable to s... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746828 | Polarization reuse and beam-forming techniques for aeronautical broadband systems Aeronautical broadband communication is enhanced by providing an apparatus having a first antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation corresponding to a first polarization, and a second antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation co... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734257 | Dynamic shared forward link channel for a wireless communication system A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for si... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729698 | Communication system receiver and method for concurrent receiving of multiple channels A method and apparatus in a communication system provide for concurrent processings of signals at the different frequencies. A received signal is down converted in a RF/IF system to produce on-channel and out-of-channel received samples. The on-channel received samp... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729440 | Frequency modulator for digital transmissions The invention relates to a method of transmitting digital data exhibiting a rate T by means of a frequency modulator able to modulate as a function of the data, a central carrier frequency f0 at a first frequency value f0+¼T and/or a second frequency ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721184 | Method and apparatus for fast encoding of data symbols according to half-weight codes Efficient methods for encoding and decoding Half-Weight codes are disclosed and similar high density codes are disclosed. The efficient methods require at most 3·(k−1)+h/2+1 XORs of symbols to calculate h Half-Weight symbols from k source symbols, where h is of t... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720497 | Method and apparatus for a dedicated physical channel in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for determining a transmission configuration for a dedicated channel in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, an optimum configuration is determined based on minimizing Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) of the channel. The configuration ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720174 | Multi-stage code generator and decoder for communication systems A method of encoding data for transmission from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. A plurality of redundant symbols are generated from an ordered set of input symbols to be transmitted. A plurality of output symbols are generated fr... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711363 | Method and apparatus for controlling communications of data from multiple base stations to a mobile station in a communication system An apparatus and method provides for controlling communications from multiple base stations to a mobile station in a communication system. A mobile station transmitter transmits from the mobile station channel quality indicator data of a first base station. The data... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711068 | Multi-stage code generator and decoder for communication systems A method of encoding data for transmission from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. A plurality of redundant symbols are generated from an ordered set of input symbols to be transmitted. A plurality of output symbols are generated fr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706795 | Communication system receiver and method for concurrent receiving of multiple channels A method and apparatus in a communication system provide for concurrent processings of signals at the different frequencies. A received signal is down converted in a RF/IF system (490) to produce on-channel and out-of-channel received samples (305, 306... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7676735 | Forward error-correcting (FEC) coding and streaming In a data decoder for decoding data from received symbols received over a channel from an encoder, a method for decoding data wherein the received data includes erasures and includes source symbols and repair symbols organized into one or more source blocks. The dec... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7664209 | Method and apparatus for coordinating transmission of short messages with hard handoff searches in a wireless communications system A method and apparatus for coordinating the time at which a mobile station performs searches for alternative systems to which a hard handoff will occur. The mobile station receives a command which instructs the mobile station as to when to tune to alternative freque... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660245 | FEC architecture for streaming services including symbol-based operations and packet tagging In a packet communications system stream data is transported over a channel over which packet loss or corruption is possible, with forward error correction (“FEC”) information. A transmitter receives source packets comprising source data, generates FEC source pa... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653157 | Method and apparatus for coordinating transmission of short messages with hard handoff searches in a wireless communications system A method and apparatus for coordinating the time at which a mobile station performs searches for alternative systems to which a hard handoff will occur. The mobile station receives a command which instructs the mobile station as to when to tune to alternative freque... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7633413 | Systems and processes for decoding a chain reaction code through inactivation A method for processing a chain reaction codes includes first selecting a source symbol which is associated an output symbol of degree two or higher (i.e., an output symbol which is itself associated with two or more input symbols), and subsequently deactivating the... | 12/15/2009 |
