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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7733948 | Method for providing service and rate negotiation in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for negotiating service configuration in a digital communication system is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the service negotiation system is implemented in a wireless spread spectrum communication system. The service configuration compri... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7336952 | Method and system for hard handoff in a broadcast communication system A method and system for a handoff in a broadcast communication system is disclosed. A subscriber-assisted handoff is impractical in a broadcast communication system due to e.g., a high signaling load, a difficulty to synchronize the broadcast transmission. On the ot... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7286846 | Systems and methods for performing outer loop power control in wireless communication systems Systems and methods for controlling the power level for a mobile station during periods when no data is being transmitted by the mobile station. In one embodiment, data is intermittently transmitted from a mobile station to a base station on a reverse-link traffic c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271465 | Integrated circuit with low-loss primary conductor strapped by lossy secondary conductor Techniques for “strapping” a primary conductor with a secondary conductor in an integrated circuit (IC). The IC includes a number of circuit elements interconnected by a secondary conductor through a number of vias disposed at a number of locations for coupling ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7209998 | Scalable bus structure A processing system is disclosed with a sending component and a receiving component connected by a bus. The bus may be configured with first and second channels. The sending component may be configured to broadcast on the first channel read and write address informa... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209712 | Mean square estimation of channel quality measure Methods and apparatus for improving the feedback of channel information to a serving base station, which provides accuracy and reliability of such information. The process determines the received link quality indicators using historical information of the previously... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206298 | Conducting searches amidst asynchronous cells of a communication system Methods and apparatus are presented for scheduling asynchronous neighboring cells within a wireless communication system. The Neighbor Set is apportioned into a Synchronated Neighbor Set and an Asynchronous Neighbor Set. Rather than performing a full frame timing ac... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203319 | Apparatus and method for installing a decryption key An apparatus for installing a decryption key is initially arranged so that a decryption algorithm received by a control processor is passed via a first interface path to a decryption processor. The algorithm is installed in the decryption processor together with a p... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200162 | Interpolation of channel search results In general, the invention facilitates searching for energy peaks in spread spectrum wireless communication systems with greater precision. More particularly, various embodiments of the invention may involve reporting not only an energy peak and its associated offset... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190687 | Method and apparatus for requesting point-to-point protocol (PPP) instances from a packet data services network A method and apparatus for requesting PPP instances from a packet data services network includes a mobile station configured to send an origination message to a packet data service node (PDSN) at which it has arrived upon leaving the vicinity of another PDSN. The me... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190750 | Rake receiver for tracking closely spaced multipath Techniques for tracking closely spaced multipath and preventing finger merge without monitoring relative positions between each of a plurality of fingers are disclosed. In one aspect, motion limits are determined for each finger. Time-tracking commands that would mo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184743 | Method and apparatus for allocating uplink resources in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system Techniques to schedule uplink data transmission for a number of terminals in a wireless communication system. In one method, a number of sets of terminals are formed for possible data transmission, with each set including a unique combination of terminals and corres... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184789 | Method and apparatus for data packet transport in a wireless communication system using an internet protocol Method and apparatus for data packet transport in a wireless transmission system supporting broadcast transmissions. A trigger recognized at the transmission node initiates a broadcast transmission, and the resultant set up of a transmission path. A termination trig... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181244 | Method and apparatus for using position location to direct narrow beam antennas A novel mobile unit which communicates with a new and advantageous base station. The mobile unit includes a system for generation of position information and a transceiver for transmitting the position information. In the preferred embodiment, the transceiver is a C... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177658 | Multi-media broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) in a wireless communications system Techniques to implement MBMS services in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing data for transmission to a plurality of terminals. Frames of information bits (which may have variable rates) are provided to a buffer implem... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177351 | Data transmission with non-uniform distribution of data rates for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system Techniques to determine data rates for a number of data streams transmitted via a number of transmission channels (or transmit antennas) in a multi-channel (e.g., MIMO) communication system. In one method, the “required” SNR for each data rate to be used is init... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174403 | Plural bus arbitrations per cycle via higher-frequency arbiter An arbiter in a bus system arbitrates multiple bus transaction requests in a single bus frequency clock cycle, by operating at a frequency greater than the bus frequency. This allows for two or more arbitration operations in a single bus frequency clock cycle with o... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173631 | Flexible antialiasing in embedded devices A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline renders a sequence of images of 3D scenes each composed of a plural set of objects. The pipeline comprises an antialiasing oversampling mechanism to perform for a given image, at an early stage of the pipeline, oversampling... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170924 | System and method for adjusting combiner weights using an adaptive algorithm in wireless communications system Method and apparatus to compute the combiner coefficients for wireless communication systems using an adaptive algorithm. One embodiment trains the weights on a signal known a priori that is time multiplexed with other signals, such as a pilot signal in a High Data ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170876 | Outer-loop scheduling design for communication systems with channel quality feedback mechanisms Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically adjusting parameters of an outer-loop algorithm, which is used to determine the feasibility of a transmission format. The parameters of the outer-loop algorithm are adjusted according to channel conditions. In one ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167684 | Rate control for multi-channel communications systems Techniques and apparatuses to determine a set of rates for a set of data streams to be transmitted in a multi-channel communication system. A group of transmission channels to be used for each data stream is initially identified. An equivalent system for each group ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167686 | Wireless communications transceiver: transmitter using a harmonic rejection mixer and an RF output offset phase-locked loop in a two-step up-conversion architecture and receiver using direct conversion architecture A wireless transceiver includes a transmitter having a harmonic rejection mixer and an RF output phase-locked loop in a two step up-conversion architecture, and a direct conversion receiver. The transmitter includes a local oscillator for producing a signal at a mul... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165099 | Dynamically downloading and executing system services on a wireless device An applet requiring a virtual machine is downloaded to a wireless device. A software platform on the device determines that a virtual machine is used by the applet during execution. Without additional user interaction, the virtual machine is downloaded to the wirele... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164907 | Automated over the air plug-in device recognition and software driver download A system and method for automatically detecting a peripheral device in communication with a wireless device, such as a wireless telephone, and requesting a driver for the peripheral from a remote server via a wireless communications network. After the driver is rece... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164649 | Adaptive rate control for OFDM communication system Techniques to adaptively control the rate of a data transmission in a wireless (e.g., OFDM) communication system. In an aspect, various types of metrics may be derived and used to select the proper rate for the data transmission. Some types of metrics relate to diff... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164323 | Phase synchronous multiple LC tank oscillator A phase synchronous multiple LC tank oscillator includes a plurality of oscillator stages configured to oscillate synchronously. The phase of each of the plurality of oscillator stages is substantially the same. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162224 | System and method for piggybacking data across an open data channel of a wireless device A system, method, and program for transmitting data across an idle open communication channel from a wireless device. The wireless device includes a computer platform and a plurality of device resources that selectively utilize a open communication channel to commun... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161512 | Gain error correction in an analog-to-digital converter An error correction circuit for use with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) comprising correction capacitance switching means coupled to the correction capacitance means. The switching means being coupled to ground and to a plurality of reference voltages and bein... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161971 | Sending transmission format information on dedicated channels Transmissions on the dedicated channel are encoded using a set of paramaters that are picked from a large selection of potential parameters. If the remote station does not know the particular set of parameters that were used by a base station, then the remote statio... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159163 | Feedback for data transmissions Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically controlling the re-transmission scheme of acknowledgment signals. A source transmits a first data packet over a slot s1. If channel conditions are favorable, source transmits a second data packet over sl... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158760 | Frequency synthesizer with selectable preconfigured synthesizer characteristics A system and method are disclosed for configuring a frequency synthesizer in a transceiver. Configuring a frequency synthesizer in a transceiver includes specifying a selection bit sequence wherein the selection bit sequence corresponds to a predetermined combinatio... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158640 | Method and apparatus for re-synchronization of a stream cipher during handoff A method and apparatus for re-synchronizing a stream cipher during soft handoff. Transmitted quasi-secret keying information is used with a secret key to reinitialize a stream cipher generator located in a base station and a stream cipher generator located in a trav... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158556 | Reliable conveyance of orthogonal space information The contents of a counter at a remote station is used to select a Walsh cover, which is used to cover the acknowledgment or negative acknowledgment bits sent on a new reverse acknowledgment channel (R-ACKCH). In the new reverse acknowledgment channel, the value of t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158498 | Interleaver and deinterleaver for use in a diversity transmission communication system Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving enhance the performance of a system utilizing interleaving and transmit diversity by reordering the sequence of symbols transmitted along the different transmission channels. This enhancement is accomplished by ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158089 | Compact antennas for ultra wide band applications Compact antennas for ultra wide band applications are disclosed. The compact antenna may be an elliptic dipole antenna with a poise and counterpoise both having an elliptical shape. A substrate may be used to support the poise and counterpoise with the substrate hav... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157965 | Summing power amplifier A power amplifier comprises an amplification stage comprises a plurality of amplifiers, wherein each amplifier provides an amplified output, and an inductive summing device configured to receive the plurality of amplified outputs and provide a combined output signal... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158796 | Apparatus, system, and method for autonomously managing reverse link communication resources in a distributed communication system An apparatus, system, and method efficiently manage reverse link communication in a communication system having geographically distributed base stations. A base station functioning to at least one mobile station as a non-serving active base station estimates an expe... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155177 | Weight prediction for closed-loop mode transmit diversity Techniques for predicting weights used for closed-loop transmit diversity. In a channel prediction scheme, channel gains for multiple transmit antennas are initially estimated (e.g., based on pilots received from these antennas) and used to derive predicted channel ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154980 | Frequency synthesizer with on-chip registers A system and method are disclosed for configuring a frequency synthesizer to generate a frequency. Configuring a frequency synthesizer to generate a frequency includes storing a plurality of value sets in a plurality of register sets; receiving a selection sequence ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154936 | Iterative detection and decoding for a MIMO-OFDM system Techniques to iteratively detect and decode data transmitted in a wireless (e.g., MIMO-OFDM) communication system. The iterative detection and decoding is performed by iteratively passing soft (multi-bit) “a priori” information between a detector and a decoder. ... | 12/26/2006 |
