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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8027693 | Conservation of paging resources in a mobile switching center A method in one example comprises the steps of receiving a call intended for a designated cellular subscriber unit at a serving MSC, determining that the designated cellular subscriber unit, during a recent prior use of the serving MSC, responded to an Intersystem P... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019068 | Method of allocating power for the simultaneous downlink conveyance of information between multiple antennas and multiple destinations A method of scheduling a plurality of subscriber equipment based on sets of channel conditions and calculated power allocations for downlink channels of an air interface of a wireless communication system to satisfy a desired system requirement. A set of subscriber ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7965665 | Method of signaling traffic mode transition in a wireless communications system In a UMTS wireless communication system a UE autonomously determines that it is going to transit from an active traffic mode into an idle traffic mode and informs the NodeBs in its active set that it is doing so. It does so either by using Layer 1 signaling, using t... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957389 | Method of stall identification and recovery A method of wireless communication. The method includes the step of determining a probability of a stalling condition for at least one data packet in a sequence of data packets. The method also includes the step of transmitting a flush command in response to the det... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7929487 | Method and apparatus for cellular communication over data networks Cellular signals or other wireless signals/messages are introduced into a building or to an outside location by transmitting packets corresponding to those signals over a data network and low cost cables to designated locations within the data network. Once the desi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7873327 | Method for adaptively controlling other cell interference Disclosed is a method of controlling a transmit power constraint at a mobile station using a pilot power ratio (PPR) or other measurement of relative received powers (or signal strengths) between a neighbor cell transmission and a serving cell transmission such that... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7792134 | Method and apparatus for detecting an uplink packet data channel in a CDMA wireless communications system At a base station receiver in a CDMA wireless communications system, in order to reduce reliance on the parameter values transmitted on a packet data control channel (PDCCH) to properly detect the high speed packet data transmitted on a packet data channel (PDCH) wi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7782984 | Method of sphere decoding with low complexity and good statistical output A symbol vector received from a multiple antenna transmitting array is detected using a sphere decoder. The sphere decoder is used to select from a set of candidate binary strings that string which is most likely to have been transmitted. Soft information for use in... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782862 | Method for controlling packet delivery in a packet switched network A method is provided for controlling the misordering of packets in packet delivery in radio access networks (RANs) and other packet-switched networks. In one aspect, the method involves reading header information to determine the proper sequence of arriving packets,... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7752440 | Method and apparatus for reducing e-mail spam and virus distribution in a communications network by authenticating the origin of e-mail messages The proposed invention solves the problem of spoofing the origin to create e-mail spam, virus distribution, and other abuse of the electronic mail. In particular, it solves a notoriously dangerous problem of distributing computer viruses via e-mail allegedly sent fr... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7715349 | Method and apparatus for bit mapping enhanced-dedicated physical control channel (E-DPCCH) information in UMTS wireless communication system In a 3GPP standards Release 6 UMTS system, in order to avoid searching at NodeB for a maximum E-DPCCH-associated metric at discrete possible valid index values, or over disjoint possible valid index regions, at the UE the three different sources of information, the ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7697413 | Method for generating a code mask for coding transmission over a traffic channel In the method a code mask for coding transmission over a traffic channel is generated based on a base station differentiator and a traffic channel differentiator. Base station differentiators are used to differentiate between different base stations and traffic chan... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7660706 | Method and apparatus for allocating link bandwidth as function of QOS requirement A method is provided for determining a bandwidth allocation needed to provide a specified QOS requirement that takes appropriate account of statistical variations for packet streams in a transmission link. In particular, a statistical model of the packet stream is f... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7610015 | System and method for coherent communication in a network A method is provided for increasing the effective transmission range for ones of a plurality of low-power transmitters arranged in an array. In particular, the low-power transmitters are arranged to simultaneously transmit a common information stream, and the transm... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7583750 | Method of data burst transmission A method of communicating at least one data burst using an assigned radio configuration. The assigned radio configuration is chosen from one of at least two radio configurations by examining which radio configuration supports a higher data transmission rate. This ex... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7564822 | Method of reverse link transmission in a wireless network using code and frequency multiplexing A hybrid method of reverse link transmission provides improved performance, particularly in wireless packet data systems. The method includes aspects of both OFDMA transmission and MC-CDMA (Multi-carrier CDMA) transmission. In specific embodiments, an MC-CDMA pilot ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 6591231 | Method for identifying cyclicity in circuit designs A method for checking on cyclicity of a set of definitions employs a simple, non-computational definition of constructivity and a symbolic algorithm based on the new, simple to implement, formulation for variables with arbitrary finite types. This is acco... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6573760 | Receiver for common mode data signals carried on a differential interface A circuit for extracting a common mode data signal applied to a plurality of component signals. The circuit including a current driver, resistance, and a common mode extraction unit connected in series. The extraction unit has an impedance substantially p... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6563786 | Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with selectable rate An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556173 | Integrated multiport antenna for achieving high information throughput in wireless communication systems An integrated K-port antenna where K is an integer equal to 2 or greater and where the antenna is sufficiently small that it can be enclosed by K-1 overlapping spheres each having a diameter of λ/2 where λ is equal to c/f and f represents an operating f... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6529859 | Oscillator phase noise prediction The phase noise of an oscillator described by a known set of differential algebraic equations (DAEs) can be predicted by a) finding the steady state waveform of the oscillator, e.g., by using harmonic balance techniques or so-called "shooting" techniques,... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6473014 | Sampling device having an intrinsic filter A sampling device for sampling an input signal having intrinsic filter properties. The sampling device samples a continuous analog input signal according to a sampling signal. The sampling device includes a first sampling switch for sampling the input sig... | 10/29/2002 |
