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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099122 | Method and apparatus for improved forward link power control while in soft handoff Forward power control is improved by increasing forward power control feedback channel reliability when the mobile unit in a wireless communication system is in soft handoff. Forward power control is enhanced by decreasing the bit error rate of forward power control... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7649947 | Selective chrominance decimation for digital images A method of decimation of a digital image, the digital image represented by a plurality of pixels, is claimed. In the pixel domain, the digital image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Certain ones of the blocks are selectively decimated base upon predetermined ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7613462 | Reservation multiple access A mobile station accesses a base station by randomly selecting a first reverse link common control channel from a set of random access channels. The mobile station transmits a request portion of an access probe over the first reverse link common control channel. The... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613144 | Systems and methods for multiplexing control data for multiple data channels onto a single control channel Systems and methods for communicating control data for multiple data channels using a single control channel. In one embodiment, a method is implemented in a WCDMA communications system. This method includes combining data rate information for a first data channel a... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7590095 | Method and apparatus for power control of multiple channels in a wireless communication system Techniques to control the transmit power of multiple transmissions in a wireless communication system. A transmitting source (e.g., a base station) receives from a receiving device (e.g., a remote terminal) a number of feedbacks of one or more (coded or uncoded) bit... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7546097 | Calibration techniques for frequency synthesizers In one embodiment, this disclosure describes a frequency synthesizer for use in a wireless communication device, or similar device that requires precision frequency synthesis but small amounts of noise. In particular, the frequency synthesizer may include a phase lo... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542482 | Method and apparatus for message segmentation in a wireless communication system Method for segmented message transmission wherein each message is first divided into segments and the segments are fragmented. A segment parameter is applied to each segment, and a segment identifier to each fragment. The fragments are provided to a lower level for ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533160 | Provisioning server information in a mobile station Method and apparatus for dynamic provisioning of a Mobile Station (MS) to provide server configuration information. In one embodiment, a home network determines whether to use the visited local network or the home network. An indicator selecting the associated serve... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526633 | Method and system for encoding variable length packets with variable instruction sizes Techniques for processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. The method and system encode and process instructions of mixed lengths (e.g., 16 bits and 32 bits) and instruction packets including instructions of mixed lengths. This includes encodin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7519535 | Frame erasure concealment in voice communications A voice decoder configured to receive a sequence of frames, each of the frames having voice parameters. The voice decoder includes a speech generator that generates speech from the voice parameters. A frame erasure concealment module is configured to reconstruct the... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519500 | Method for improved location determination accuracy using filtered and unfiltered ranging signals A method for selecting a location determination solution from a set of possible location determination solutions generated from filtered, unfiltered, and loosely filtered ranging signals. The solution is computed using a first algorithm and filtered ranging signals ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519044 | Channel structure for communication systems A channel structure for use in communication systems. Two sets of physical channels, one for the forward link and another for the reverse link, are utilized to facilitate communication of a variety of logical channels. The physical channels comprise data and control... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519027 | Method and apparatus for performing idle handoff in a multiple access communication system In a mobile communication system having a first communication device for communicating with a plurality of second communication devices, a method for performing handoff within the mobile communication system includes transmitting from at least one of the second comm... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515924 | Method and module for operating independently of a remote terminal if an incoming pilot signal is not detected within a time period and enabling a pilot signal transmission Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a module or communications device is configured to listen for a period of time for an incoming pilot signal from a remote ter... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515909 | Wireless handoffs between multiple networks The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device, and method for handing off a mobile communications device between two networks. A processor in the mobile device may be used to establish a network connection with a server in a first network while support... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515713 | Secure generation of temporary mobile station identifiers In a disclosed embodiment, a visitor location register first initializes an assignment table to store N entries. Next, the visitor location register waits until a TMSI assignment is needed. Then, a counter is maintained in memory and is incremented. The value of the... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515634 | Computationally constrained video encoding Video encoding techniques are described that involve determining a number of processing cycles used during encoding of a video frame, and encoding the video frame without using motion estimation techniques when a number of processing cycles used during encoding exce... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512412 | Power control and overlapping control for a quasi-orthogonal communication system Techniques for controlling transmit power and the amount of overlapping in a quasi-orthogonal system are described. A base station for a sector receives transmissions from terminals in that sector and neighbor sectors and determines performance metrics (e.g., overal... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509500 | Random number generation for encrypting cellular communications In wireless communications, transmission devices require continuous supplies of random data for encryption processes. The invention provides a method for generating a continuous pool of truly random data with hardware that is already available in conventional CDMA p... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509123 | Controlling hand-off in a mobile node with two mobile IP clients Extending Mobile IP to support both local and remote access by using two MIP client stacks in the end node, a roaming Node in the local access network, a standard Home Agent in the remote network. Messages between the AR and the MN, and between the internal modules ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508790 | Configuration of overhead channels in a mixed bandwidth system A method and apparatus for transmitting broadcast information in a multi-carrier communication system. The Sync Channel of the multi-carrier system is transmitted a 1.25 MHz channel bandwidth (i.e., over a single carrier), and to specify the preferred channels for t... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508778 | System and method for adjusting quality of service in a communication system A system and method for adjusting quality of service in a communication system improves an allocation of resources in a communications environment with shared resources among multiple communicating stations by adjusting quality of service levels based on characteris... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508748 | Rate selection for a multi-carrier MIMO system To select a rate for data transmission in a multi-carrier MIMO system with a multipath MIMO channel, a post-detection SNR SNRl(k) for each subband k of each spatial channel l is initially determined and used to derive a constrained spectral efficiency S | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508327 | Integer representation of relative timing between desired output samples and corresponding input samples In general, this disclosure describes techniques for changing a sampling frequency of a digital signal. In particular, the techniques provide a more accurate way to determining a relative timing between a desired output sample and a corresponding input sample using ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505780 | Outer-loop power control for wireless communication systems Systems and methods for controlling power in a wireless communication system having multiple reverse-link channels. One embodiment comprises adjusting power levels of a first set of channels and a corresponding pilot channel while maintaining a set traffic-to-pilot ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505757 | Location based service (LBS) system, method and apparatus for triggering of mobile station LBS applications An application executed within a mobile station to be triggered only by a network element, such as a mobile positioning center (MPC) or a Mobile Center (MC). The network element is coupled to a base station. The network element is responsible for authorizing an appl... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505594 | Discontinuous transmission (DTX) controller system and method A method and apparatus for controlling a discontinuous transmission process. Audio information is digitized and provided to a vocoder. A voice activity level is determined from the digitized audio signal, and if voice activity is present, active vocoder frames are g... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505437 | Method and apparatus for enabling subscriber stations to process a synchronization channel in a spread spectrum communications system During initiation procedure between subscriber stations and access network adhering to CDMA standards, (e.g., IS-95 and IS-2000) the subscriber station receives a Sync Channel Message. Due to a design/manufacturing error, certain subscriber stations adhering to the ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505436 | Communication system employing multiple handoff criteria Disclosed herein is a communication system which manages guarantee of service (GOS) requirements for various users while efficiently managing backhaul network traffic and optimizing overall system capacity. In one aspect, armed handoff is used to transmit forward li... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505043 | Cache efficient rasterization of graphics data A cache stores data for use in rasterizing graphics data. The size of the cache is equal to a selected tile size. A processor performs the rasterization of the graphics image by subdividing the graphics image into a plurality of sub-blocks. The sub-blocks are proces... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502984 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a block of data in a communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data provide for efficient use communication resources by encoding data in accordance with a first code to produce a block of data, determining transmission data rate of a time frame, selecting a portion of the b... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502420 | Method and apparatus for determining power allocation in a MIMO communication system In a MIMO communication system (100) with limited power for each antenna, a method, apparatus and a processor (420) provide for determining bin energy level allocation to each OFDM frequency bin at each transmit antenna. An estimate of a solution vecto... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502385 | RLP retransmission for CDMA communication systems Techniques for retransmitting data via RLP in a CDMA (e.g., cdma2000) system with a first retransmission mechanism provided by the RLP and a second retransmission mechanism provided by an HARQ-CF. In one method, missing RLP frames are first detected (e.g., by a rece... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499712 | Position computation in a positioning system using synchronization time bias In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for computing a positioning solution for a mobile unit based on signals received from the satellite navigation system and the wireless communication system. The techniques allow for, and resolve, a synchronizatio... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499705 | Handover in a hybrid communications network An apparatus and method of effecting hand-off of a mobile station in a first wireless communication system, which has a first mobile switching node operable with a first base station and a second mobile switching node operable with a second base station, and a secon... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499701 | Measurement reporting in a telecommunication system The basic idea of the present invention is to specify at least two different triggers for sending a measurement report from the mobile station to the network. According to the invention, the network specifies the triggers to be used in different measurement report t... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499698 | Synchronization of stored service parameters in a communication system Techniques for synchronization of stored service parameters are disclosed. In one aspect, a configuration identifier is transmitted from a mobile station to a base station, and compared with an identifier generated in the base station. If the identifiers match, the ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499506 | Detection of signal modulation format type A biasing algorithm, apparatus and method for detecting and modulation format of a received signal used in a mobile phone system implementing EDGE technology that transmits and receives both GMSK and 8PSK modulated signals. The biasing method and apparatus may also ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499427 | Method and apparatus for high rate packet data transmission In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station tra... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496505 | Variable rate speech coding A method and apparatus for the variable rate coding of a speech signal. An input speech signal is classified and an appropriate coding mode is selected based on this classification. For each classification, the coding mode that achieves the lowest bit rate with an a... | 02/24/2009 |
