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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181079 | Data transmission with HARQ and interference mitigation Techniques for transmitting data with hybrid automatic retransmission (HARQ) and interference mitigation are described. In one design, a transmitter processes a packet of data in accordance with a rate and sends at least one transmission of the packet to a receiver ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160602 | Opportunistic uplink scheduling Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160007 | Opportunistic uplink scheduling Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155652 | Tune-away and cross paging systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for measuring signal strength of an alternative frequency by tuning away from an existing frequency associated with ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149766 | Method of downlink resource allocation in a sectorized environment Methods and apparatus for communicating different size coded blocks of information in a wireless sectorized communications cell are described. Information may be categorized and formed into large, medium, and small coded blocks which may include error correction cod... | 04/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8144731 | Control channel signaling in wireless communications Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing control data values over a single physical control channel at least in part by dividing the control channel into one or more logical channels. The physical control channel can have a corresponding ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139533 | Division of the scheduling algorithm into background and foreground algorithms Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dividing scheduling algorithms into background and foreground aspects capable of simultaneously servicing a multiplicity of disparate flows in wideband communications networks. The systems provided herein arbit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134977 | Tune-away protocols for wireless systems Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for defining a protocol that controls whether to invoke a tune away component to determine an alternative wireless c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130867 | Pilot design for improved channel and interference estimation Techniques for transmitting pilot and for processing received pilot to obtain channel and interference estimates are described. A terminal may generate pilot symbols for a first cluster in a time frequency block based on a first sequence and may generate pilot symbo... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116805 | Uplink scheduling for OFDM systems Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling transmission, upon an uplink traffic channel in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) environments. Uplink scheduling may include user selection and rate selection. Further, user selectio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116800 | Reverse link traffic power control for LBC FDD Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling reverse link power on a traffic channel. Assignments for reverse link communication can be yielded. Interference from mobile devices in neighboring sectors can be monitored and other sector interfer... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116253 | Controlling forward and reverse link traffic channel power Forward link transmission power to a user terminal in a wireless communications system having a plurality of beams is controlled by determining a baseline power level, Pbaseline, from a received active pilot channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); determinin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102935 | Estimation of data-to-pilot ratio in a wireless communication system Techniques for estimating data-to-pilot ratio are described. A terminal may receive pilot sent to multiple terminals and may receive data sent specifically to the terminal. The terminal may estimate channel gain and noise variance based on the received pilot. The te... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099099 | Methods and apparatus related to assignment in a wireless communications system Methods and apparatus related to assignment in a wireless communications system are described. A mobile is assigned an identifier and a mask value, e.g., as part of a state transition message. The mobile uses the assigned identifier and/or the assigned mask value in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095141 | Use of supplemental assignments Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dynamically supplementing resource assignments to mobile devices in a wireless network environment without requiring transmission of replacement assignments. Supplemental assignments can be generated based on i... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091121 | Method and apparatus for supporting different authentication credentials Techniques for supporting concurrent data services with different credentials are described. A wireless communication network authenticates a user/device whenever new credentials are used. An access terminal sends first credentials via a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089948 | Header compression of multimedia data transmitted over a wireless communication system Methods and apparatus are described for improving the transmission of multimedia data over wireless communication channels. These techniques include determining a physical layer packet size of the wireless communication system and determining a maximum size of a com... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085875 | Incremental pilot insertion for channnel and interference estimation Dynamic resource allocation systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selectively improving the ability of a receiver to determine a channel estimate in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. A wireless communication system can use ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085786 | H-ARQ throughput optimization by prioritized decoding Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate data throughput optimization in a receiver through prioritized decoding of data transmissions. In particular, mechanisms are provided that assign priorities to obtained packets and/or sub-packets of a data tran... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077692 | Enhanced frequency division multiple access for wireless communication Enhanced frequency division multiple access (EFDMA) is a multiplexing scheme that sends modulation symbols in the time domain and achieves a lower PAPR than OFDM. An EFDMA symbol occupies multiple subband groups that are spaced apart in a frequency band, with each s... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077691 | Pilot transmission and channel estimation for MISO and MIMO receivers in a multi-antenna system A transmitter generates multiple composite pilots with a training matrix and a gain matrix. Each composite pilot includes multiple training pilots generated with multiple columns of the training matrix and scaled with multiple gain elements in a column of the gain m... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077654 | Auxiliary FL MIMO pilot transmission in 1XEV-DO Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing auxiliary multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) pilot signals to MIMO user devices in a wireless communication environment. According to some aspects, a portion of data transmission power may be real... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068835 | Tune-away and cross paging systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for measuring signal strength of an alternative frequency by tuning away from an existing frequency associated with ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064405 | Tune-away protocols for wireless systems Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for defining a protocol that controls whether to invoke a tune away component to determine an alternative wireless c... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060099 | Inter-sector control channel transmission Provided is a more efficient manner of transmitting a control message to reach into a neighboring sector (e.g., inter-sector) of a wireless network environment. The control message can be utilized for purposes such as handoff, indicating an amount of interference, i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059589 | Dynamic restrictive reuse scheduler Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dynamically scheduling orthogonal resource sets for reuse by user devices to reduce inter-cell interference by evaluating an overall scheduling metric for each user device in a wireless communication region. Th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036672 | Methods and apparatus related to resource allocation in a wireless communications system Methods and apparatus of efficient communication of resource allocation are described. A base station transmits a resource assignment message, e.g., a state transition message, to a wireless terminal including a first part, e.g., a base station assigned wireless ter... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036151 | Power-based rate signaling for cellular uplink Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate utilizing power-based rate signaling for uplink scheduling in a wireless communications system. A maximum nominal power (e.g., relative maximum transmit power that may be employed on an uplink) may be known to ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032145 | Restrictive reuse set management algorithm for equal grade of service on FL transmission Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate restrictive reuse resource set management with equal grade of service on forward link transmission. User throughput over a resource reuse set can be estimated, and an iterative method can be employed to realloc... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023958 | User plane-based location services (LCS) system, method and apparatus A system, method and apparatus for providing location services whereby location determination and location disclosure are treated as separate and independent processes. Location determination may be performed (as necessary) via a first set of network entities to obt... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7986922 | Jammer detection and suppression for wireless communication Techniques for detecting and suppressing jammers are described. A receiver may perform post-FFT jammer detection and pre-FFT jammer suppression. The receiver may transform an input signal to obtain a frequency-domain signal and may detect for jammers in the input si... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978656 | Sequence numbering for distributed wireless networks Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate maintaining consistent radio-link layer protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in the event of an RLP sequence number reset. An offset can be adjusted upon occurrence of the event to reflect a subsequent expected sequ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974253 | Methods and apparatus for implementing and using a rate indicator A base station selects and assigns uplink segments to specific wireless terminals. The base station estimates potential system interference levels, selects, assigns, and transmits a maximum uplink rate indicator value to a wireless terminal indicating the maximum up... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973541 | Method and apparatus for estimating resistance and capacitance of metal interconnects Techniques for estimating resistance and capacitance of metal interconnects are described. An apparatus may include an interconnect, a set of pads, a set of isolation circuits, and a test circuit. The set of pads may be coupled to the interconnect and used for simul... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970368 | Wired cellular telephone system Telephone apparatus, including a cable television (CATV) network interface, which is adapted to be connected to a CATV network so as to receive downstream cellular telephone communication signals transmitted at a downstream intermediate frequency (IF) via the CATV n... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969858 | Wireless terminal methods and apparatus for use in wireless communications systems supporting different size frequency bands More efficient utilization of available bandwidth is implemented in an OFDM wireless communication system. The partitions of bandwidth may be of different sizes and may be different from the original system design parameters. Basic system structure such as the numbe... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966648 | Dynamic quality of service pre-authorization in a communications environment The claimed subject matter relates to systems and methods for authorizing services. A method includes receiving a set of data relating to Quality of Service (QoS) pre-authorization, and conditionally processing subsequent QoS configuration requests based at least in... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961682 | Handoff between base stations of different protocol revisions in a CDMA system Techniques for supporting handoff of a terminal between base stations of different protocol revisions (P_REVs) in a CDMA system. The terminal is handed off from a first base station (with a first P_REV) to a second base station (with a second P_REV) while it is in a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 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 |
