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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127981 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING PACKETS ON A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a packet in a wireless local area network (LAN), the method including determining whether a packet, which does not expire during the current transmission opportunity (TXOP) but will expire before a next TXOP is sec... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS MULTIPLE ANTENNAS A method for transmitting a channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for a maximum of eight antenna ports includes mapping the CSI-RSs for a maximum of eight antenna ports onto a data region of a downlink subframe having a normal cyclic prefix (CP) configu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127977 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF TIME IN A MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK Methods and systems are disclosed herein for synchronizing network time in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Each node in the MANET may be synchronized with all of its neighbors for effective communications. More specifically, a local timing reference may be adjusted acc... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SENDING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THROUGH CONTROL CHANNELS TO PREVENT UNNECESSARY RETRANSMISSION IN A LIMITED BANDWIDTH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Techniques for increasing throughput during a file sharing operation including a mobile device are provided. Throughput can be increased by reducing the number of times packets are retransmitted due to ACK signals being delayed due to the lossy nature of over-the-air tr... | 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 |
| 20120131184 | ALIGNING DATA TRANSFER TO OPTIMIZE CONNECTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A WIRELESS NETWORK Systems and methods for aligning data transfer to optimize connections established for transmission over a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for aligning data tran... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127974 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF A GATEWAY OF A LOCAL AREA NETWORK A provided apparatus is caused to direct establishment of a connection of the apparatus with a core network via a wide area radio access network (RAN), where the core network is coupled to an external network. The apparatus is also caused to select or receive selection ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127978 | RANGE EXTENSION TECHNIQUES FOR A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Techniques for extending transmission range in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a receiving station determines the frequency error between a transmitting station and the receiving station based on one or more initial packet transmissions and corrects this frequency e... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127903 | POWER EFFICIENT TUNNELED DIRECT LINK SETUP APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein operate to provide wireless communication between personal mobile communication (PMC) devices. An emulated wireless access point (AP) at a first PMC device (PMC1) establishes a first tunneled direct link setup (TDL... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127980 | Wireless Network Notification, Messaging and Access Device Disclosed is the transmission of data other than an identification of the wireless network (non-network id data) in a network identification field (NIF) of a wireless frame. The wireless transmitting device (Tx) may generate a wireless frame according to a network proto... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127982 | ACCESS POINT AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATE MPDU (A-MPDU) AND POWER-SAVE MULTI-POLL (PSMP) OPERATION Embodiments of wireless devices and methods for aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) communications in an IEEE 802.11n network are generally described herein. Two or more A-MPDU subframes are aggregated to form an A-MPDU. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) that is configured ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HARDWARE ACCELERATION IN A HYBRID WIRED/WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Aspects of the invention may be found in a system and method for hardware acceleration in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network. In according with various embodiments of the invention, hardware acceleration may comprise creating at least one policy to be distribute... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127976 | RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND RELATED OPERATING METHODS A method of operating a radio frequency identification (RFID) system is provided. The method interrogates RFID tags with an RFID reader and provides at least some of the collected tag data to a mobile device that is unable to communicate with RFID tags using the over-th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127975 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY PROVISIONING A FEMTOCELL A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a femtocell having a controller operable to establish communications with a gateway and transmit authentication information to the gateway. The gateway transmits the authentication ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106324 | Handling of Access Capability Information in a Mobile Network In a mobile network with a plurality of access networks (210, 220), a control node (110) which is controlling access of a user equipment (300) to that one of the access networks (210, 220) which is currently used by the user equipment (300... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106429 | METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS IN AD-HOC NETWORK A method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network, comprising generating, by each mobile communication terminal, a broadcast or multicast message comprising a source IP address in the AD-HOC network and a unique identifier corresponding to... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106530 | Multicarrier Radio Receiver and Method for Receiving Multiple Carriers A radio receiver receives multiple radio frequency (RF) carriers where each RF carrier corresponds to a logical entity or object used in multi-carrier communications called a cell. A receiving radio node receives signals on serving cells, including a serving cell on a p... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106526 | SWITCH MODULE A switching module can route packets between a network fabric and a local network, both of which form a closed network such as a vehicular network. The switching module provides local network management functions, and handles packet transfers between the local network a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106525 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING A SINGLE BLUETOOTH / WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED METHODS A mobile wireless communications device includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio configured to generate a WLAN transmit signal, and a Bluetooth radio configured to generate a Bluetooth transmit signal. A circulator is coupled downstream of an antenna. A trans... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106527 | WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF SHARING SETTING INFORMATION A communication device configured to enable a setting process, performed with another communication device, for sharing setting information including information for settings of wireless communication to another communication device. The communication device includes a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106528 | UNIFIED PROTOCOL STACK FOR COLOCATED WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS A system and method for accessing a wireless network via unified protocol stack. In one embodiment a wireless networking system includes a wireless device. The wireless device includes a first wireless transceiver, a second wireless transceiver, a processor, and a unifi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106529 | Transmitting Data Between Nodes of a Wireless Network In one embodiment, setting, by a first node, a settable data rate for a first part of a data frame, the data frame also having a second part having a defined second data rate, and transmitting, by the node, the first part at the set data rate and the second part at the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING DESTINATION STATIONS IN WLAN SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTI-USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT A method of indicating destination stations, performed by an access point (AP), in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system supporting multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) is provided. The method includes transmitting a sounding request frame to the pl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106512 | COEXISTENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES A network interface includes a radio frequency system and a media access controller. The media access controller includes first and second client modules and a control module. Each of the client modules wirelessly communicates with a network via the radio frequency syst... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106523 | PACKET FORWARDING FUNCTION OF A MOBILITY SWITCH DEPLOYED AS ROUTED SMLT (RSMLT) NODE A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing Routed Split Multi Link Trunking (RSMLT) for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) tunnels is presented. A first and second network switch learn data associated with each other, wherein the first network switch... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106419 | COOPERATIVE TRANSCEIVING BETWEEN WIRELESS INTERFACE DEVICES OF A HOST DEVICE WITH SHARED MODULES A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data between a host module and a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, wherein the first wireless protocol carries wireless telephony data for c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106428 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A MOBILE, BROADBAND, ROUTABLE INTERNET In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile broadband routable internet (MBRI) providing for carrier-grade, networked, broadband, IP-routable communication among a plurality of mobile devices, where the mobile devices may rep... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106524 | TUNABLE POWER AMPLIFIER USING LAMINATE MEMS CAPACITORS For use in a wireless network, a tunable power amplifier circuit includes a power amplifier transistor and a plurality of laminate MEMS (microelectromechanical system) capacitors coupled to the power amplifier transistor. The laminate MEMS capacitors are arranged in a t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106532 | ASSOCIATION UPDATE MESSAGE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING ASSOCIATIONS IN A MESH NETWORK An association update message for mesh networks according to the IEEE 802.11s standard provides the ability to include a plurality of associations in an association update message and thus ensure simultaneous updating of a plurality of associations of representative nod... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082146 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a data packet transported on a backhaul link at a first network element; de-capsulating the data packet; identifying whether the data packet is an upstream data packet; identifying whether the data pa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082145 | HARQ ACK/NACK TRANSMISSION FOR MULTI-CARRIER OPERATION Techniques for sending ACK/NACK information in a multi-carrier wireless communication network are disclosed. In one aspect, a plurality of ACK/NACK transmission techniques are selectively employed by a multi-carrier user equipment (UE) to reduce the number of bits of AC... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082147 | DETERMINING A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FROM A PLURALITY OF POSSIBLE CHANNEL BANDWIDTHS In a method of determining an available channel bandwidth in a communication system, wherein the communication system utilizes i) a set of component channels for transmitting data streams and ii) a set of access control channels, and wherein each of at least some of the... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082111 | SERVICE IN WLAN INTER-WORKING, ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD An address management method is provided, for use when a mobile terminal accesses a service from a WLAN access network, wherein the service is provided in a 3GPP network or in a service provider network via the 3GPP network. First, the mobile terminal connects to the WL... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082144 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE IN SERVICE ZONE A method for providing a service in a service zone comprises: receiving, from an access point, a service set identifier (SSID) or a basic service set identifier (BSSID); when the SSID or the BSSID has been received for a preset time, transmitting, to a server, a message... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082148 | System and Method Managing Hotspot Network Access of a Plurality of Devices There is provided a system and method for managing hotspot network access for a plurality of devices. There is provided a mobile broadband hotspot comprising a processor configured to detect an occurrence of an event, determine a device from the plurality of devices to ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082149 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK INFORMATION AND DATA USING A PRECODING CODEBOOK FOR MULTICELL COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Disclosed are a feedback-transmitting method and data-transmitting method, and a method for generating a codebook that can be used in a system such as LTE-A. When multiple base stations operate in a cooperative mode, using a codebook generated according to the present i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082081 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING A WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION Device, system, and method of selectively activating a wireless network connection. In some demonstrative embodiments, a mobile device may include a wireless network communication unit capable of communicating with an access-point over a wireless network connection; a p... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082313 | PRIVACY CONTROL FOR WIRELESS DEVICES According to various embodiments, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving, at a wireless adaptor of a device, a wireless data packet from an access point (AP), wherein the wireless data packet includes a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) of... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082150 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM A gateway receives a predetermined request from a terminal via a network, identifies the type of the terminal, reads a stream or a file, which includes at least one of a video and an audio, from at least one of an equipment connected directly to the gateway and an equip... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069822 | VOIP SERVICE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION BY WIRELESS ROUTER A wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a Voice over IP (VoIP) service accumulator. The ... | 03/22/2012 |
