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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127985 | ROBUST TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Depending on... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106535 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM A wireless communication device includes a history holder configured to obtain notified timings of transmission requests when the transmission requests are notified, calculates request intervals of notifications of the transmission requests, and holds the request interv... | 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 |
| 20120051356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC TIMESLOT REDUCTION A method for communicating with a mobile station is presented. The method includes transmitting a first radio block to the mobile station. The first radio block including an indication instructing the mobile station to enter a DTR mode. Before receiving an indication of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044926 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION UNITS, AND METHOD FOR EMPLOYING A PILOT TRANSMISSION SCHEME A method of pilot-assisted data communication comprises transmitting a composite signal. The composite signal comprises data, a first pilot sequence with non-cyclic properties; and a second pilot sequence, such that the composite signal within a designated or pre-define... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044927 | RADIO CHANNEL AGGREGATION AND SEGMENTATION Multiple streams from multiple circuit paths are Block-TDM (Block-Time-Division-Multiplexing) aggregated into a single stream that passes via a single path through processing circuitry capable of handling the aggregated signal. The cost of providing redundant processing... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING PARTIALLY RECEIVED PACKETS IN COEXISTING NETWORKS A system and method for using partially received packets in coexisting networks. In one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes an interference detector and a packet validator. The interference detector is configured to determine that time multiplexing of a coexisting ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120014367 | Methods and devices for transmitting and receiving data signals in a wireless network over a plurality of transmission paths A method includes emitting a reference signal following K transmission paths during a first configuration time slot, identifying valid transmission paths among the set of K transmission paths by listening, according to each transmission path of the set, for a feedback r... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014358 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING BANDWIDTH OF UPLINK SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL The present invention discloses a method, system and device for determining a bandwidth of an uplink sounding reference signal SRS. The method for determining the bandwidth of the uplink SRS comprises the following steps: determining whether SRS is transmitted with the ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016305 | WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS FOR A MEDICAL DEVICE NETWORK A fluid infusion system includes local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices support communication of status data, physiological informa... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008617 | HYBRID ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS WTRU AND METHOD A hybrid orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and method are disclosed. A WTRU includes a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver processes received data to recover data mapped to the subcarriers using OFDMA. The r... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002660 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS A method for transmitting a signal and a communications apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a signal transmission mode, where the signal transmission mode indicates that an uplink signal is transmitted in a multiplexing mode; and transmitting the upli... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002661 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE A wireless communication system includes a transmission device including plural transmission antennas and a receiving device including plural reception antennas. The transmission device includes a branching unit that branches a signal into plural transmission signals re... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE OPERATING ENTITY SYSTEMS The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for coexistence of multiple operating entity systems, where the method includes: setting part or all of bandwidths of an operating entity in uplink timeslots of a downlink carrier frequency interference region to... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110310854 | METHOD OF DETERMINING ACCESS TIMES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES The present invention provides a method of determining access times for a wireless committee case in device. One embodiment of the method includes selecting one of a plurality of time intervals in a periodically repeating access cycle for transmission of an access reque... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310879 | OPPORTUNISTIC UPLINK SCHEDULING Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated tha... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305236 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM While directional communication using millimeter waves is realized, the number of communication stations through which simultaneous communication is possible is increased to increase the throughput of the entire system. A communication appa... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305231 | Communication System for Short Range Reliable Information Transfer The invention is concerned with providing a wireless transmitting and receiving system such that an information stream may be exchanged in both directions over a relatively short range and with a high level of robustness and tolerance to propagation conditions. Several ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299519 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION METHODS AND DEVICES Cooperative communication methods for a wireless communication network (100) and devices configured to perform such methods are disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the network (100) includes a first communication device (102) and a second c... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110268102 | TECHNIQUES FOR FORMATTING SIGNALS FOR TRANSMISSION USING A WIRELESS NETWORK Techniques are described for forming signals for transmission to a receiver. Two transmitters can form resource blocks with different Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) patterns that are orthogonal over time and/or frequency to ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261805 | UNIVERSAL ACQUISITION AND TRACKING APPARATUS FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) An acquisition and tracking apparatus is provided for tracking digitized spread spectrum navigation signals modulated with a spreading code according to any of a set of modulation types including Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) with and without Frequency Domain Multipl... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255450 | MULTIPLEXING OF PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) COMMUNICATION AND WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) COMMUNICATION Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and wide area network (WAN) communication are disclosed. In one aspect, P2P communication may be supported on an uplink spectrum. A user equipment (UE) may communicate (i) with a base station on both a downlink ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249664 | COORDINATION-FREE RENDEZVOUS METHOD FOR A COMMUNICATION NETWORK In a coordination-free rendezvous method for a communication network, time is divided into superslots with each superslot being further divided into slots. At least one first-class slot and at least one second-class slot are selected out of the slots of each superslot. ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243120 | ANTENNA SOLUTION FOR NEAR-FIELD AND FAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS DEVICES A single-antenna solution is provided for near-field and far-field communication in wireless devices. In an embodiment, a first transceiver block generates a first transmit signal to be transmitted using radiative techniques. A second transceiver block generates a secon... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110228759 | ENCODING RATIO SETTING METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an e... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222468 | CONCURRENT TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A method for concurrent transmission of multiple radio-frequency signals in a wireless network. The method is executed at a node of the wireless network and makes use of the node's knowledge of local network topology, locations of certain packets in the node's neighborh... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222527 | BASE STATIONS AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING TRANSMISSIONS ON AN ENHANCED RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL Example base stations and methods for receiving transmissions on an enhanced random access channel (RACH) are disclosed herein. An example method for receiving transmissions on an enhanced RACH from a device such that an initial access burst is received in a single time... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216755 | Systems and Methods for Managing Timing Functions in Multiple Timing Protocols One embodiment of the invention includes a master timer controller for a controlling a controller configured to implement a plurality of functions at each of a respective plurality of scheduled times, each of the plurality of scheduled times is converted to a respective... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216657 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO SIGNALING REQUEST TO TRANSMIT TRAFFIC IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Methods and apparatus related to the communication of traffic in peer to peer communications are described. A peer to peer communications system includes traffic slots, and for a pair of devices (first and second) having a connection a first transmission request resourc... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110211569 | METHOD, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY The invention is related to an apparatus comprising: a grouper configured to group antennas into antenna groups, if more antennas suitable for transmission are provided than pilot resources per a time slot; a rotator configured to rotate selected symbols with antenna-sp... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110206031 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD A receiver includes a replica signal generating unit which generates a replica signal as a replica of a transmission signal based on a received signal; a time zone setting unit which sets a plurality of time zones to be extracted such that a part of a signal interval of... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110194552 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS A wireless transmission and reception method for the transmission of sequences of signals between a first transceiver device and at least a second transceiver device, wherein the first transceiver device and second transceiver device are disposed outside a reciprocal di... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110176533 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SAME In the communication system performing transmission with generating the vacant period in the slotted mode during data transmission in order to perform various process, such as different frequency carrier quality measurement or so forth, the control signal for maintainin... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176534 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONISATION A communication device is provided, the communication device comprising a receiving circuit configured to receive a message from another communication device; a time base circuit providing a time base signal that specifies a plurality of time periods; a determining circ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110164605 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless communication system includes a coordinator (3) that broadcasts a beacon (21) having at least a preamble part (32) and a payload part (33), and a plurality of devices (2) each of which is synchronizable with at least the coo... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110164604 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION The method for controlling signal transmission comprises: determining the first reference variable according to the number of transition points from downlink to uplink in a wireless frame of the system and the system frame number (S502); determining the second re... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110164603 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR GAINING AND MAINTAINING CONTROL OF THE TRAFFIC FROM A RADIO BASE STATION IN A CELLULAR TELEPHONY SYSTEM A method for letting a temporary radio base station (RBS, 140) gain and maintain control of the traffic of a targeted RBS (120) in a system (100), where RBS's transmit an identity signal and a list of candidate frequencies for use by user terminals ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158220 | MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD IN WIRELESS NETWORK A media access control method in a wireless network is provided. Each of devices in the wireless network determines one of a plurality of beacon slots within a beacon period as a beacon slot of the device. The devices in the wireless network determine a data transmissio... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158221 | Support of Plural Chip Rates in CDMA System In a CDMA system (100), two chip rates in a TDD cell are supported by: transmitting signals in the system in a frame (400) having a plurality of timeslots; operating at least a first one (0-8) of the plurality of timeslots in the frame at a lower chip rate... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149942 | Method of Transmitting Data in Multiple Antenna System A method of transmitting data in a multiple antenna system includes transmitting first data through a first pilot pattern zone in which pilots are arranged in a specific pilot pattern in a permutation zone having at least one tile comprising a plurality of orthogonal fr... | 06/23/2011 |
