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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127947 | ON-BOARD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ON-BOARD WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An on-board wireless communication apparatus using an OFDMA scheme includes: a position information acquisition unit which estimates a position after a predetermined time period based on base station position information, mobile station position information, and speed i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127886 | ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING METHOD AND DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS Disclosed is an adaptive transmit and receive method and device in a multiple-antenna wireless communication system. A transmit mode comprises different main transmit modes each of which includes one or both of a sub-transmit mode based on STBC and a sub-transmit mode b... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127939 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Readable Medium Embodying a Program for Resource Allocation Apparatus and method for resource allocation are provided. An apparatus includes a controller configured to: utilize a tree structure with more than one branch in the resource allocation of physical resource blocks, each branch including one or more legal starting posit... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127946 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, CCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND CCE BLIND DECODING METHOD Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device which makes it possible to provide a base station, terminal and CCE allocation method capable of reducing the number of times blind decoding of a terminal is performed, without increasing the CCE block rate, even... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLLING FOR DYNAMIC SLOT RESERVATION Embodiments include systems and methods for allocating time to a plurality of devices in the network of a piconet controller. Embodiments comprise selectively directing a steerable antenna beam of the piconet controller to a plurality of devices in succession during a p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127905 | Scheduling Data Transmissions Between a Mobile Terminal and a Base Station in a Wireless Communications Network A method of scheduling wireless data transmissions between a mobile terminal and a base station using multiple system carrier signals is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (101) in the mobile terminal information from the base station indicating available ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127931 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL POWER PRIORITIZATION A method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a transmission power is prioritized between an access channel and a second channel. Additionally, the access channel and the second channel are transmitted simultaneously.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127938 | Multi-Subframe Scheduling Method, Multi-Subframe Scheduling System, Terminal, and Base Station A multi-subframe scheduling method includes receiving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) information which is sent by a base station and includes time domain resource indication information. The time domain resource indication information is used to indicate info... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127942 | Simultaneous Multi-Mode WiFi Differentiated By SSID Embodiments provide a wireless network with several access points connected to a communication infrastructure. Residential or business customers of the Internet arc provided an Internet interface (e.g., a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem) having a wireless transceive... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS A method for transmitting reference signals for eight or fewer antenna ports includes mapping a portion of common reference signals (CRSs) for four or fewer antenna ports into a downlink subframe including 1st slot and 2nd slot with a normal cyclic... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127950 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING AN UPLINK CARRIER FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for allocating an uplink carrier for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports car... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127961 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD To provide a mobile terminal apparatus and radio communication method for enabling feedback control information to be efficiently transmitted on uplink channels, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized by having in a mobile terminal apparatus the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127935 | METHOD FOR ENABLING COLLABORATION AMONG TERMINALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A method for Mobile Station (MS) collaboration for a Downlink (DL) or Uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless network having MSs in a Base Station (BS) cell is provided. The DL transmission method includes forming a cluster of MSs having a same type of radio interface, r... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127929 | De-Correlation of Sub-Bands Using Cyclic Shifts Techniques are provided to de-correlate sub-bands of a packet to be transmitted. At a communication device, a signal (packet or frame) is generated for transmission. The packet or frame comprises a plurality of subcarriers in each of a plurality of sub-bands. Different ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EXTENDED UPLINK TEMPORARY BLOCK FLOW AND DYNAMIC TIMESLOT REDUCTION A system and method for data transmission protocols in mobile communication systems and, more specifically, for controlling mobile stations (MSs) configured to implement extended uplink temporary block flows (EXT_TBF) is presented. An indication that EXT_UTBF_NODATA is ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127930 | UPLINK DATA ARRIVAL RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE User equipment (UE) transmits an access response to a random access procedure (RACH) preamble message to acquire an uplink grant from a node of a wireless communication system. The access response provides an uplink grant to the UE for a request for authorization to tra... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127934 | Wireless Resources A wireless network, such as an LTE (“Long-Term Evolution”) network, may be configured to receive an identifier from a wireless network. The identifier identifies a resource configuration in a plurality of resource configurations. The resource configuration correspon... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING LATENCIES FOR CONTENT PROTECTION IN AUDIO/VIDEO NETWORKS Reducing latencies for content protection in audio/video networks includes reserving a wireless channel for a time period to accommodate control message exchange for content protection in data communication between a wireless transmitter and wireless receiver over a wir... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTROL INFORMATION IN WLAN SYSTEM There is provided a method of transmitting control information in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, comprising transmitting first control information by means of cyclic shift delay diversity beam-forming and transmitting second control information. The first ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127941 | RADIO SELF-BACKHAUL METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM Embodiments of the present invention relate to a radio self-backhaul method, device, and system in an evolved network. With the radio self-backhaul method, device, and system provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the NodeB sends the uplink data to the co... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127943 | Method and System for Reducing Connection Set-Up Time A method of connection setup in mobile wireless data communications systems is disclosed where the connection setup time is decreased for delay-sensitive communications sessions relative to the normal connection setup time for confidence-dependent communications session... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127944 | ESTABLISHING ADDITIONAL REVERSE LINK CARRIERS IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS SYSTEMS A method and apparatus for reliably and quickly establishing multiple reverse links in multi-carrier wireless networks is provided. Signaling channels are established the on an existing forward link in order to transmit reverse link power control bits and the acknowledg... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ANTENNA TRANSMISSION The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system for supporting multiple antenna transmissions. The method for transmitting the uplink ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127949 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND BASE STATION In a communication system including a mobile station that transmits a data signal and a plurality of base stations receiving the data signal transmitted by the mobile station, the communication system includes: as the base stations, at least, one first base station havi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING WIRELESS NETWORK PACKET RESOURCES TO WIRELESS TERMINALS A method in which a network apparatus 210 transmits a single assignment message comprising common assignment information directed to plural wireless terminals. The single transmitted assignment message can be used to enable channel assignment to be initiated for ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127953 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD To provide a radio communication method for enabling a control signal to be received with high quality and high efficiency, in the case of using spatial multiplexing transmission in data signals to transmit, and also transmitting the control signal in the same sub-frame... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128084 | NETWORK OPTIMIZATION BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT TYPE A network device may include a first set of components and a second set of components. The first set of components may manage, using a first set of parameters, at least one of uplink radio resources or downlink radio resources for a group of mobile user equipment. The s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANNEL TRACKING IN OFDMA Methods and systems which include identifying a needed amount of US bandwidth to be allocated to a user terminal; determining the subcarriers and the number of symbols per subcarrier to be allocated to meet the identified need in a burst; allocating, for the user termin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127933 | Methods Of Setting Maximum Output Power For User Equipment And Reporting Power Headroom, And The User Equipment One embodiment of the method includes defining, at the user equipment, a range for the maximum output power. The range includes a maximum value and a minimum value. The minimum value is based on a maximum power signalled by a base station, a power class of the user equi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127932 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL A method and device for transmitting sounding reference signal (SRS). The method includes that: in at least two cells which need a user equipment (UE) to perform uplink channel sounding, the SRS resources for performing sounding to each cell are distributed to the UE; t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127865 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL A terminal (10) includes: a wireless transmission and reception unit (11) that transmits or receives a signal using a frequency channel selected by switching between a plurality of frequency channels; an interference detection unit (12) that determi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106489 | Reference Signal Transmission Scheduling Device and Reference Signal Transmission Scheduling Method A reference signal transmission scheduling device, which performs scheduling on uplink transmission of a reference signal (SRS) from a mobile terminal to a base station in a wireless communication system, is designed to appropriately allocate an SRS transmission resourc... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106488 | Method and Arrangements in a Mobile Telecommunications System The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for introducing an automatic one-time configuration ;of the DNS server(s) when a base station gateway, such as an HeNB GW, is deployed, such that the FQDN-to-HeNB GW IP address translation data is proactively con... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106490 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM An antenna for transmission of signals in respective element frequency bands is controlled to reduce power consumption and transmit a good quality signal. A mobile station apparatus performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus using a plurality of eleme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106486 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS A method of requesting a plurality of different characteristic indicators from a second communications apparatus in a wireless communications network including a first communications apparatus and a plurality of such second communications apparatuses which communicate w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106485 | Method and System for Integration of Trunking and Conventional Land Mobile Radio Systems An integrated Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system enables communication between a trunking LMR system and a conventional LMR system. The trunking LMR system includes a trunking site controller including a first network gateway router. The trunking LMR system includes at leas... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106487 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION ANTENNAS USING PILOT SUBCARRIER ALLOCATION A method of allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are al... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106491 | TIME-SLOT BASED MULTIPLE ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION A method of transmitting ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/Negative-ACK) signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a plurality of data unit from a base station; reserving a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources co... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106482 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING CONTROL AND DATA CHANNEL An approach is provided for performing control signaling. Data and control information are received. The control information is orthogonalized using block-level spreading. The data and the orthogonalized control information are multiplexed at a symbol-level.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING A PARAMETER OF A TERMINAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting a parameter of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method for adjusting a parameter of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one concept of the present invention, ... | 05/03/2012 |