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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120014368 | MOBILE STATION TRANSMISSIONS IN RESPONSE TO NETWORK ACKNOWLEDGMENT POLLING Methods and apparatus for mobile station transmissions in response to network acknowledgment polling are disclosed. An example method in a mobile station disclosed herein comprises receiving a poll from a network, the poll requesting piggy-backed ACK/NACK (PAN) informat... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110069695 | Adaptive polling method for real-time traffic An adaptive polling method for real-time traffic, including settling a value of an initial polling period Tpi and a value of an adaptive polling period Tpa; firstly allocating an uplink polling resource to a terminal; if a new packet is generated from the terminal in th... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110038360 | Implant Access in the Medical Implant Communications Service Band A system and method for providing communications between a hub (medical controller) and a node (an implant) are disclosed. The hub selects an operating channel within a channel group in accordance with applicable regulations, and transmits signals to facilitate communic... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026475 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING CARRIER MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE IN A MULTI-CARRIER SUPPORTED WIDEBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME A method and apparatus for performing carrier management in a broadband wireless communication system supporting multiple carriers are disclosed. The method for a mobile station to perform carrier management procedure with a base station supporting multiple carriers inc... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100329233 | POLLING METHOD AND VEHICLE SEARCH METHOD IN DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention provides a polling method in a radio digital communication system making it possible to shorten time required for polling without causing increase in an error rate and to efficiently manage and administrate communications. In a digital radio commun... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100303056 | PROBABILITY TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING POLLING METHOD AND WIRELESS IDENTIFIER READER CONTROLLER THEREOF Exemplary embodiments of the present invention illustrate a probability time division multiplexing polling method and a wireless identifier reader controller thereof. The probability time division multiplexing polling method is used to control a plurality of wireless id... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100296505 | MOBILE DEVICE POLLING FOR MEDIA CONTENT SELECTION AND PRESENTATION CONTROL Mobile device polling is disclosed. A content polling system includes a content polling module configured to transmit a content polling request to participant mobile devices that is executable by each participant mobile device to return a content polling response to the... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100254369 | Cooperative Ultra-Reliable Wireless Communications A network includes a master node (master) and a set of slave nodes (slaves). The network uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and time division multiple access (TDMA) symbols on sub-carriers. During a first downlink transmission from the master to the ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100238915 | RADIO TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME WITH POLLING An apparatus or method for transmitting data blocks on a communications channel having a radio link between two stations including a user equipment comprises receiving first data blocks from the user equipment, and transmitting second data blocks to the user equipment. ... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100202335 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION PACKETS ACROSS A WIRELESS AND ROUTING NODES IMPLEMENTING IT A wireless network includes permanently powered routing nodes and intermittently operating routing nodes. A polling procedure is used for transferring routing and data information packets from a permanently powered routing node to an intermittently operating routing nod... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202435 | VOICE CHANNEL CONTROL OF WIRELESS PACKET DATA COMMUNICATIONS A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a target ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100157928 | Method and System For Adaptively Obtaining Bandwidth Allocation Requests A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared bas... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100118857 | METHOD OF PERFORMING POLLING PROCEDURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method of performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In a method of performing polling procedure in a protocol layer in a wireless communication system, wherein the protocol layer performs a data retransmission function, the method... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100085946 | ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS A network includes an access point and a station. The station transmits to the access point a current clear-to-send packet at a current time during a current exchange. The transmission is based on success or failure of a previous exchange during which a previous clear-t... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090232123 | Extended Range Wireless Packetized Data Communication System A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a ‘master’ data-reception site from a ‘slave’ data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090190568 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESUMPTION REQUEST OF EXTENDED REAL TIME POLLING SERVICE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method of operating a Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system to resume an extended real-time Polling Service (ertPS) is provided. The method of operating the BS includes detecting a codeword received through a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) ch... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090185548 | ENHANCED COMMUNICATION OF DATA IN WIRELESS CONTROL AREA NETWORKS A method for communicating data in a wireless control area network, where the wireless control area network includes one or more sensor nodes configured to facilitate acquisition of patient data and an access coordinator configured to facilitate acquisition of the patie... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090180460 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LINK MANAGEMENT IN A SCATTERNET An embodiment of a method for link management in a scatternet, performed by a wireless communication device, is provided. The wireless communication device simultaneously establishes a synchronization link in a first piconet, and an asynchronization link in a second pic... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090154444 | VOICE CHANNEL CONTROL OF WIRELESS PACKET DATA COMMUNICATIONS A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a target ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090103512 | METHOD OF PERFORMING POLLING PROCEDURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method of generating a data block for performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting data and a method of performing a polling procedure are disclosed. A protocol layer performs the polling procedure for requesting a receiv... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090086704 | ACKNOWLEDGE MODE POLLING WITH IMMEDIATE STATUS REPORT TIMING A wireless network avoids delays in receiving status reports by having transmitters make sure that any outstanding Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) processes in progress are all finished before sending the polling request. Thus, the receiver can respond to any pol... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090059889 | rtPS CLASS OF IEEE 802.16/WiBro SYSTEM Provided is a real-time polling service (rtPS) class of an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system. An rtPS scheduling method of the IEEE 802.16/WiBro system includes subscriber station (SS) located in a network where the IEEE 802.16/WiBro system is realized inserting a timestamp indi... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090059888 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING FAILOVER IN A POLLING ADAPTER WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM AN APPLICATION SERVER An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server. A priority list is stored as part of an adapter configuration that specifies the server names that will participate in a group clust... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090046695 | Method and Apparatus for Triggering a Poll Function in a Wireless Communications System A method for triggering a poll function in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes triggering the poll function for polling status of a receiver, and a radio link control entity of the transmitter supporting a “Last PDU” trigger and a “Poll retr... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090028126 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLLING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A data packet communication system employs radio link control (RLC) transmission between a transmitter and a receiver with an Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) arrangement whereby polling of the receiver is accomplished with reduced amount of redundantly transmitted data, ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090010243 | EXTENDED REAL-TIME POLLING SERVICE (ertPS) SCHEDULING SERVICE A mobile station initiates an extended real-time polling service (ertPS) scheduling service talk-spurt period using a bandwidth allocation request (130) that contains a non-zero value for a number of allocation units (e.g., bytes) of uplink bandwidth requested by... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080310389 | Method and System for Dynamic ACK/NACK Repetition for Robust Downlink MAC PDU Transmission in LTE A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowle... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080279171 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAYER 2 ARQ FOR PACKETS An Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) method in a communication system having a protocol layer structure, in which a Layer 2 (L2) transmitter for generating an upper layer packet in a size suitable for transmission over a radio channel and transmitting the upper layer packe... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080240069 | High-Density Wireless Local Area Network A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality of da... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080232342 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVELY OBTAINING BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION REQUESTS A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system. The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared bas... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080225824 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLLING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A data packet communication system employs radio link control (RLC) transmission between a transmitter and a receiver with an Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) arrangement whereby polling of the receiver is accomplished with reduced amount of redundantly transmitted data, ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080212561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING RLC FOR FLEXIBLE RLC PDU SIZE Enhancements are provided for the radio link control (RLC) protocol in wireless communication systems where variable RLC packet data unit (PDU) size is allowed. When flexible RLC PDU sizes are configured by upper layers, radio network controller (RNC)/Node B flow contro... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080205354 | Method for Initiating a Wireless Transfer of Data Between at Least Two Electronic Devices, Electronic Device and Software Program Therefor The invention relates to a method of initiating a wireless transfer of data between two electronic devices. In order to make the initiation particularly user friendly, it is proposed that a concept called “hugging” is employed. A hugging state between two electronic... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080205372 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol dat... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080205371 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol dat... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080198834 | Wireless Telecommunications System With Improved Transmission Capacity The invention discloses a wireless telecommunications system for stationary or semi-stationary equipment, Q and comprises a main node (C) and a first plurality (SI-S3) of terminals belonging to the same access subset and arranged to receive Q from and transmit to... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080186931 | RESOURCE REQUESTS FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Techniques for sending resource requests in a wireless communication system are described. Multiple types of quality of service (QoS) information may be supported for resource requests and may include QoS class and latency deadline. A terminal may have data to send on t... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080181162 | SDMA COMMUNICATIONS WITH NON-IMMEDIATE BLOCK ACKNOWLEDGMENT In Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) communications, mobile devices that are transmitting to a base substantially simultaneously during a predetermined communications phase may wait until after an end of the predetermined communications phase to receive acknowledg... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080151859 | Communication Arrangement In a Base Station In a Cellular Mobile Telephony System The invention discloses an arrangement (100) in a base station in a cellular mobile telephony system, comprising a first plurality (120-160) of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB:s) and a second plurality of switches (110,190). Each of the PCB:s ( 06/26/2008 | |
