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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051354 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND NODE USED IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK A wireless communication network, a communication method and a node for the wireless communication network are disclosed. The wireless communication network includes a plurality of peer nodes communicating with each other through a control channel and a plurality of dat... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110211568 | BASE STATION A base station includes a wireless communication interface configured to perform wireless communication with a mobile station being under control of the base station; and a processor configured to control the wireless communication interface to perform wireless communic... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20100260149 | METHOD OF ENCODING GROUP IDENTIFICATION IN A CDMA TRUNKING SYSTEM The present invention discloses a method of encoding group identification in a CDMA trunking system. This method comprises: a trunking group where mobile stations locate is encoded by a preset GID encoding method to generate a GID of the trunking group. The GID is a cha... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100085953 | METHOD FOR ENDING A CALL SESSION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A repeater receives an indication that a subscriber unit is initiating a call session on a channel, and indicates that the channel is busy. The repeater repeats a transmission from the subscriber unit and sets a timer for a first time upon determination that the transmi... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100085952 | Method of Communicating which Channel is to be Monitored by Subscriber Units that are Idle in a Communication System The present invention discloses, in a two-way radio frequency (RF) communications system having at least one repeater, a plurality of channels, and a plurality of subscriber units, a repeater receives a message that identifies a channel that is selected to serve as a re... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090232037 | Adaptive mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of mesh networks In a wireless mesh network of network nodes, there is identified a first subset of the nodes that have a direct connection to at least one end user, and a second subset of nodes that are necessary to maintain connections among the end users. The first subset is exclusiv... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090196269 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO VOICE RESOURCES IN MOBILE NETWORKS USING MOBILITY MANAGEMENT SIGNALING MESSAGES Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling access to voice resources using mobility management messages are disclosed. According to one method, a mobility management message associated with a mobile subscriber is received. A priority level of the mobi... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090161644 | Wireless Resource Allocation Control System, Road-Side Unit, Wireless Resource Allocation Control Method and Storage Medium Storing Program Thereof A wireless resource allocation control system for allocating and releasing wireless resource used for communication between vehicles in a predetermined area is provided. The control system includes a unit mounted on a vehicle, and the unit includes a transmitter for tra... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090073950 | Wireless Audio Gateway Headset A wireless, multi-function audio gateway device provides communication between the headset and at least one audio gateway. The headset includes a housing having at least one multifunction button, and a first and a second microphone. The first microphone is located close... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090028123 | SYSTEM FOR PERMITTING CONTROL OF THE PURGING OF A NODE B BY THE SERVING RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER A system and method which permit the RNC to control purging of data buffered in the Node B. The RNC monitors for a triggering event, which initiates the purging process. The RNC then informs the Node B of the need to purge data by transmitting a purge command, which pro... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080316992 | PROVISIONING OF NON REAL TIME SERVICES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS A method is described for the provisioning of latency-tolerant services in an access network. The method comprises the steps of: setting a demand to provide a service to a user; determining the network resources required to provide this service; establishing based upon ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080298334 | REDUCING FALSE DETECTION IN AN HSDPA 3G TERMINAL In one embodiment, a method for determining whether an encoded message in a shared channel is not intended for a communications device. The method includes: (a) decoding the message to recover a multi-bit codeword; (b) determining whether the codeword is valid or invali... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080205365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COEXISTENCE A method for coexistence of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) receiver (117) such as a WiMAX receiver with a synchronous frame-based transmitter (115) such as a Bluetooth transmitter within a mobile station (110) receives an e... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080062919 | Methods and apparatus for providing a channel avoidance system for a platform with a plurality of wireless communication devices Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a channel avoidance system for a platform with a plurality of wireless communication devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080049697 | Method and Radio Communication System for Transmitting User Information as a Service to Several User Stations A method and a radio communication system transmit user information as a service to several user stations in a radio communication system comprising at least one base station and user stations which are connected to each other via a radio communication interface. The ba... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080043696 | Method and System for Mobile Terminals to Share Storage Space A method and a system for mobile terminals to share a storage space, in which a mobile terminal may apply for a shared file space on the network side, and the shared file space may be accessed by the mobile terminal itself or other mobile terminals. In the invention, a ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080037497 | Radio station site in a telecommunications network A method for selecting a subset of sites within a set of candidate sites for activating one or more radio stations of a telecommunications network includes building an initial solution of a subset of sites starting from a network configuration having the whole set of ac... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080025280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELAYING DATA A data communication system includes a mobile station capable of receiving data communications directed to the mobile station, at least one relay station capable of relaying data between a base station and the mobile station, and the base station capable of assigning a ... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080025279 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTI-SYSTEM WAKEUP A method (200) for synchronizing wakeup of a second communication device (115) with wakeup of a first communication device (110). The method can include, on the first communication device, receiving a first message (135) from a communications... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080019345 | Method And Apparatus Of Dynamic Channel Assignment For A Wireless Network Disclosed is a method and apparatus for dynamic channel assignment (DCA) in a wireless network, which describes the complex channel assignment problem with a decoding problem. The invention describes the decoding problem with a normal graph and specifies all the local r... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070291726 | Method of Controlling Connection Between Nodes in Digital Interface A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the dis... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070275689 | Method for Dimensioning Hardware Components for Base Stations of Cdma Communication Networks The invention relates to a method for dimensioning hardware components for base stations of CDMA communication networks, especially hardware components of a UMTS base Station (node B). The number of hardware components, that is Channel elements (CE) and modems (M), requ... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070248061 | Auto-configuration of spectrum use by wireless pre-planned or ad hoc networks A wireless device capable of dynamically allocating radio spectrum access within a wireless communication system includes a wireless transceiver having at least a physical layer functionality to transmit and receive data across a wireless network. The device extracts me... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070242648 | Managing dormant handoffs in radio access networks In a radio access network including subnets, enabling a radio node of a first subnet to receive a communication over an access channel from an access terminal that is in a dormant state and to send information about the communication to a radio node controller of a seco... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242650 | Radio Frequency Assigning Apparatus, Wireless Communication System, and Radio Frequency Assigning Method A radio channel allocation apparatus of a node in a radio communication system which controls to allocate a radio channel between nodes by a virtual carrier sense is disclosed. The radio channel allocation apparatus includes a node information collecting unit which coll... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070242649 | Integrating camp-on telephony feature with WLAN resource management and admission control In one embodiment, a method for requesting wireless network resources includes transmitting a network resource request to a wireless network in response to a session initiation message from a session signaling node and, responsive to an indication that the wireless netw... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070230428 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus that enhances throughput even in a multi-cell environment without limiting a frequency band which can be used in each cell. A classification section divides terminals in a cell into classes. A channel information receiving section receives chan... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070121543 | Scheduling in wireless communication systems A method in a wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in a frame structure wherein each frame includes multiple sub-frames, including grouping at least two wireless communication terminals in a group, assigning the group to less t... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070104173 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH TRACKING AREAS One object of the present invention is a method for for configuring a cellular mobile communication network with Tracking Areas, comprising: a step of configuring a Radio Access Network entity, with at least one Tracking Area it is to be associated with, a step of regis... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070097920 | METHOD OF HANDOFF WITHIN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM CONTAINING DIGITAL BASE STATIONS WITH DIFFERENT SPECTRAL CAPABILITIES The present invention is directed to a digital wireless telecommunications system that includes a plurality of base station of differing spectral capabilities, and a plurality of remote stations capable of transmitting data to and receiving transmissions from the plural... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070097941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEST EFFORT SCHEDULING A system and method for increasing bandwidth usage between an access point and a wireless device are described. One embodiment can include an access point, a prioritizer, and a priority storage device. These components can increase bandwidth usage between an access poin... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070081491 | Apparatus and method for assigning sub-channels in an OFDMA system A sub-channel assignment apparatus and method of minimizing interference caused by sub-channel frequency overlaps when assigning sub-channels for sectors of a base station in an OFDMA system of a FDMA type. The apparatus includes: a plurality of sector channel managemen... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070053318 | Subscriber-controlled registration technique in a CDMA system A subscriber controlled registration protocol, a subscriber monitors a congestion indicator signal broadcasted by a base station with which it desires to register. If the congestion indicator signal indicates that the base station is operating in a congested state, the ... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070053321 | Flexible data partitioning in systems using wideband channel bonding modems The invention relates to improved utilization of modems for data communication and particularly, although not necessarily exclusively, relates to use of wideband modems. The invention relates to a method for allocating groups of channels to users or groups of users in a... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20060280140 | LOWER POWER WIRELESS BEACONING NETWORK SUPPORTING PROXIMAL FORMATION, SEPARATION AND REFORMATION OF WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LAN's), AS TERMINALS MOVE IN AND OUT RANGE OF ONE ANOTHER A low power wireless communication (personal LAN) system includes a plurality of wireless devices with each wireless device including a radio transceiver. The radio transceiver may take the form of an insertable card that fits within a slot in the wireless device. The p... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060268778 | Medium hopping data transmitter A first communication device (e.g., the communication device that is sending data) monitors a radio channel in a predetermined set of radio channels. A message is transmitted on the first radio channel if the first radio channel is unoccupied. A second radio channel fro... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060268776 | User selection apparatus and method for SDMA in a MIMO system An apparatus and method for selecting at least two users to be serviced in SDMA in an SDMA wireless communication system are provided. All users are ordered according to a predetermined rule and all possible user combinations each having at least two users are created f... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060250956 | Telecommunication network support for service based policy in roaming configurations An apparatus in one example may have a functionality of a policy decision function divided into two parts; one part representing a home network application function and the other part representing visited network bearer resources and local policies. The one part of the ... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060233145 | Method of controlling connection between nodes in digital interface A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the dis... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060203768 | Systems and methods for allocating resources by a network device Systems and techniques to set a new service rate for one or more queues of a router and a new power consumption level for a router is disclosed. The queues are configured to store data packets awaiting transmission from the router. The setting of the new service rate or... | 09/14/2006 |
