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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176167 | Methods and apparaus for requesting wireless communication device performance data and providing the data in optimal file size Methods, systems, devices and computer program products are presented for requesting wireless device performance data and providing an optimal file size for the performance data. Present aspects provide for estimating the size of requested performance data, at the t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175635 | Methods and apparatus for system selection in a multimode wireless device Methods and apparatus for system selection in a multimode wireless device are disclosed. The method and apparatus afford selection of a wireless communication system access technology from a number of wireless system access technologies supported by a wireless devic... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170558 | Method and system for performing a handoff in a wireless communication system, such as a hard handoff A method for minimizing search time and disruption of current service on an originating frequency during a frequency search excursion to a target frequency as part of an inter-frequency hard handoff between cells on different RF CDMA channels. Disruption of service ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160648 | Method and apparatus for receiver diversity control in wireless communications Receiver diversity in a wireless device is controlled in response to operating conditions, transmission requirements, and control settings. The control of diversity reduces power consumption by enabling receive diversity on given conditions. Operating conditions, tr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145571 | Content transfer control for wireless devices A content transfer control system for a wireless device and a method of controlling content transfer from a wireless device are described. The system includes a content transfer control component arranged to (a) detect licensed content and (b) transfer a content sou... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139545 | Method and apparatus for forwarding messages among multiple radio networks Techniques to forward unsolicited messages from an (IS-2000) CDMA radio network via an HDR radio network to an access terminal. A session is first established between the access terminal and the HDR radio network. During session establishment or thereafter, the acce... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126484 | Apparatus and methods of sharing contact information between mobile communication devices using short message service Methods and devices are presented for sharing contact information amongst wireless communication devices using Short Message Service (SMS) communication. SMS transfer of contact information occurs seamlessly, in that the sender automatically generates and sends a SM... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116772 | System and method to facilitate acquisition of access point base stations An indoor base transceiver system (BTS) provides economical coverage by having a network-coupled base station that monitors a plurality of remote transceiver units (RTUs), or RF nodes, communicating by base-band conduits at symbol data rate. The BTS can reduce cost ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112538 | Method for delivery of software upgrade notification to devices in communication systems Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing software upgrade notifications to user devices that utilize unicast and multicast communication techniques in a wireless communication environment. Bandwidth and power consumption is minimized by perm... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099123 | Adaptation of transmit subchannel gains in a system with interference cancellation A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptat... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094623 | Method and apparatus for choosing a sector based on a scaled forward link metric Methods and apparatus for selecting a serving sector in a high rate data (HDR) communication system are disclosed. An exemplary HDR communication system defines a set of data rates, at which a sector of an Access Point may send data packets to an Access Terminal. Th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086748 | Avoiding PPP time outs during IPCP negotiations Methods and apparatus are presented for extending the protocol synchronization period between a PPP client and a PPP server, wherein the PPP server is located on a wireless communication device. In one aspect, the PPP server generates and sends an IPCP Configure-Nak... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078174 | Method and apparatus for improving mobile-terminated call set-up performance An apparatus and method for improving mobile-terminated call set-up performance comprising triggering an inter-radio access technology (IRAT) transition from a source cell to a target cell, remembering the deterministic timing of a plurality of paging occasions in t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077743 | Method and apparatus for offset interleaving of vocoder frames The disclosed embodiments provide methods and apparatus for offset interleaving of media frames for transmission over a communication network. In one aspect, a method for interleaving a stream of media frames for transmission over a communication network includes th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064330 | Bit-width minimization scheme for wireless communication A technique for generating a reduced bit-width in a signal generated by a first-type modulator in a communication apparatus that includes two distinct modulators. In particular, the communication apparatus includes a first modulator adapted to generate a first modul... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8014473 | Method and apparatus for detecting messages with unknown signaling characteristic Techniques for detecting received sequences when certain signaling characteristics (e.g., transport formats, rates) are not known a priori at the receiver. In one method, a sequence for a transmitted message is received, and a metric value is computed for each of a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010111 | Method and system for communicating content on a broadcast services communication system An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two tra... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7978603 | Traffic optimization in a heterogeneous wireless cabin network A method for transmitting signals, consisting of receiving a plurality of signals generated in an isolated region, the signals encoding respective individual payloads and payload envelopes. At least two of the signals operate under different protocols. The method in... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974643 | Reducing mobile-terminated call set up by identifying and mitigating overlap between paging and system information broadcast In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications (UMTS) system, a mobile device reads scheduling information for uplink interference (SIB7) from a Master Information Block, broadcasted on the Broadcast Channel (BCCH). The UE wakes up from the sleep during its periodic pagin... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961616 | Method and apparatus for congestion control in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for congestion control in a wireless communication system. Individual target data rate values are assigned individual access terminals. The individual data rates of the access terminals are adjusted to achieve the corresponding individual target... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953451 | Method of an apparatus for handling messages in a mobile communications environment A method and system of transferring messages from a message source to a mobile station in a cellular system comprises assigning to each message a priority characteristic before the message is transmitted to mobile station. The message is then transmitted together wi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925302 | Method and apparatus for receive diversity control in wireless communications Receiver diversity in a wireless device is controlled in response to operating conditions, transmission requirements, and control settings. The control of diversity reduces power consumption by enabling receive diversity on given conditions. Operating conditions, tr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912457 | Methods and apparatus for creation and transport of multimedia content flows System for creation and transport of multimedia content flows. The system includes a method for transporting a content flow to a wireless access network for broadcast to devices coupled to the wireless access network. The method includes transmitting a request messa... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907531 | Apparatus and methods for managing firmware verification on a wireless device Apparatus, methods, processors and machine readable media for verifying the integrity of firmware on a wireless device. Aspects include generating a verification scheme for testing the integrity of firmware on a wireless device and transmitting the verification sche... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903770 | Method and apparatus for canceling pilot interference in a wireless communication system Techniques for canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899396 | Efficient operation for co-located WLAN and Bluetooth Techniques to enable efficient operation of co-located WLAN and Bluetooth devices are described. A station (e.g., a cellular phone or a laptop computer) determines the activity of a Bluetooth device and ascertains idle periods of the Bluetooth device. The station co... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899018 | Automatic resignation from ad hoc network A wireless device is configured to automatically resign from an ad hoc network. In some aspects the resignation may be based on automatic detection of inactivity associated with the ad hoc network. For example, resignation from the ad hoc network may be based on abs... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898954 | Power-efficient data reception in a communication system with variable delay To conserve power, a terminal operates in a “power save” mode in which the terminal is in a “doze” state when there is a low probability of receiving an incoming packet and in an “awake” state when an incoming packet is expected. In the doze state, the t... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890129 | Method and apparatus for delivering information to an idle mobile station in a group communication network A method and apparatus provides for delivering information to an idle mobile station in a group communication network includes delivering the information to the mobile station in special form, e.g., short data burst (SDB) form, if the information is smaller than a p... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881394 | 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 ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873321 | Apparatus and methods for determining network access performance of a wireless device Apparatus, methods, processors and computer readable media for determining the wireless network access performance or capability of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a pl... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860992 | Method of and apparatus for adaptive control of data buffering in a data transmitter A data transmitter (10) divides incoming data for transmission into data blocks and passes them in frame transmission order to a radio link stage (16) via a serial frame buffer (14). The buffer (14) holds the data frames until the radio l... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852801 | Reducing collision probability for VoIP packets A mobile communications device is described that includes a processor configured to establish a network connection with a server in a network and a data generator under the control of the processor that is configured to periodically generate a data unit at a rate ha... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839833 | Method and apparatus for reduced complexity short range wireless communication A reduced complexity short range wireless communication system and method are described providing a very low complexity, low cost, and low power version of Bluetooth Wireless Technology. In one embodiment, the low complexity version relies upon mechanisms and proced... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7778642 | Method and system for processing telephone calls involving two digital wireless subscriber units that avoid double vocoding A method and system determines whether the receiving subscriber unit is also part of a digital wireless telephone system that has compatible vocoding capability. If so, vocoded data is converted into tones that are introduced into a wire-based telephone system for r... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7720079 | Data transfer procedure for transferring data of a data sequence between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity A data transfer procedure enables data of a data sequence to be transferred between a transmitting entity (13) and a receiving entity (19). The entities each comprise a higher data handling layer (11, 17) and a lower data handling layer (12, ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720022 | Method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system A method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system having a base station and a plurality of mobile stations. The forward link includes a plurality of traffic streams sent on at least one channel from the base station to the... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711119 | Method and apparatus for transition of encryption key during an ongoing media communication session The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and apparatus for encrypting media using a current media encryption key (MEK), requesting a new MEK, and receiving the new MEK. The method further provides for transitioning from the current MEK to the new MEK and contin... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706740 | Apparatus and methods of selective collection and selective presentation of content Disclosed are apparatus and methods operable to distribute targeted content. Additionally, disclosed are corresponding apparatus and methods operable to selectively choose and cache selected ones from among the distributed targeted content, and to further choose one... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706350 | Methods and apparatus for flexible spectrum allocation in communication systems The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for flexibly allocating a shared frequency spectrum to a plurality of users, the spectrum may have a first number of segments, each segment having a second number of clusters associated with a certain sector/... | 04/27/2010 |
