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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050070293 | Communication terminal and base station selection method A communication unit adapted to the EV-DO standard communicates with a base station. An acquisition unit acquires the number of communication terminals in communication with the base station. A derivation unit measures the CIR from the received pilot signal to derive a ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050070287 | Method for soft/softer handover for wireless communication systems Soft/softer handover is to be performed in a wireless hybrid code division multiple access communication system. For a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), currently used uplink and downlink timeslots of the WTRU in a current cell/sector are determined. Uplink and dow... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050070286 | System and method for reconnecting dropped cellular phone calls The present invention relates to a system and method of reliably determining that a cellular phone call has been dropped and then automatically reconnect the call. The invention is applicable for use in telephone systems that have off-premises call hunting algorithms an... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050070285 | Handover for use with adaptive antennas Handover procedures take into account adaptive antennas that employ narrow, directional antenna beams. A connection is established with a mobile station by way of an originating radio base station. Downlink signal quality measurements associated with cell-wide transmiss... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050070274 | Apparatus and method for handling cell update during reconfiguration in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment The details of an apparatus and method for handling cell update during reconfiguration in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. When a UE receives a Reconfiguration request from a UTRAN, it sets an activation time for execution ... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050063338 | Seamless roaming apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to search for a benefit associated with switching from receiving first information from a first network to receiving second information from a second network, and downloading a demodulation code to ... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050059400 | Method and system for triggering handoff of a call between networks A method for handing off a call between networks includes monitoring a quality of a first link between a mobile station and a wireless local area network (WLAN) when the mobile station is actively connected with the WLAN on a call and monitoring a quality of a second li... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050059399 | Method and apparatus for cell reselection within a communications system Transferring communication within a communication system occurs as follows: during communication with a serving base station, in order to shorten the duration before downlink data can be initiated to a remote unit that has performed cell reselection, an automatic downli... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050048975 | Method and apparatus for node B controlled scheduling in soft handover A method (20) and corresponding equipment for enabling Node B based control during soft handover of the maximum allowed uplink data rate used by a UE device (11), based on the UE device (11) identifying a scheduling cell in an uplink, and the Node B... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050048976 | System and method for using geographical location to determine when to exit an existing wireless communications coverage network A system and method are presented for determining when to exit an existing wireless communications coverage network. The method samples the device geographical position, determines a threshold boundary line, measures the position of each sample point with respect to the... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050048974 | Method and apparatus for generating handover neighbor list in a cellular mobile communication system A method and apparatus for generating a handover neighbor list of base stations capable of communicating with a mobile terminal in a cellular mobile communication system. A UMTS RAN manager (URM) collects handover attempt count and handover ratio data as handover statis... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050048973 | Methods and systems for performing call handover in a media gateway Methods and systems for controlling media stream handover in a media gateway includes establishing a call context between a first termination and a second termination in a media gateway. The first and second terminations are capable of bi-directional media stream commun... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050048972 | System and method to improve WLAN handover behavior at entry/exit points A system, wireless device (306) and method determine that a wireless device (306) is detecting a triggering event. The triggering event includes detecting a WLAN border cell (210), detecting a first signal from an egress portal (302), or dete... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050047372 | Seamless handover method for mobile IPv6 home agent The present invention relates to a handover method of a mobile IPv6 communication network capable of reducing the handover interrupt time, the packet loss rate, and the load of the home agent. The mobile station is a single or a multimode physical access terminal, and m... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050043026 | System and method for establishing and/or maintaining a data session across packet data networks A communication system selection algorithm (SSA) implemented by a mobile station chooses between available systems to select a system to serve the mobile station. During initialization, the SSA causes the mobile station to scan the environment and compare available comm... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050037756 | Mobile telecommunications system and a mobile telecommunications control method Regulating the unnecessary handover control count and reducing the power consumption of a radio mobile station thereby reducing the load on an entire radio telecommunications system to maintain stable communications. By adding a position calculator, a direction calculat... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050037769 | Alleviating an overload condition of a base station for mobile telecommunications A method is provided of alleviating an overload condition of a base station of a code division multiple access (CDMA) network for mobile telecommunications. The base station has a plurality of mobile user terminals in its radio coverage area. At least some of the mobile... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050037759 | Communication system A method and system for determining the synchronized value of a first counter of a wireless communication system serving a user station which moves at a time of handover from a first coverage area controlled by a first controller into a second coverage area controlled b... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050037758 | System and method for GSM hard handoff A GSM1×-to-GSM handoff feature allows a GSM1× subscriber with a dual-mode (GSM1× and GSM modes) handset to seamlessly roam from GSM1× coverage areas to GSM coverage areas. This functionality is facilitated by the GSM1× system design which integrates a CDMA RAN with... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050037757 | Mobile communication system for handoff between heterogeneous mobile communication networks and handoff method using the same Disclosed is a mobile communication system for handover between heterogeneous mobile communication networks. A dual-mode terminal has first and second modules capable of performing communication in first and second heterogeneous communication technologies, respectively.... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050032520 | Estimating signal strength measurements in a telecommunications system The number of measurements being performed in a telecommunications system can be reduced by performing a predetermined measurement in Cell A and in co-located Cell B, step 1, for example a received signal code power (RSCP) measurement. The difference between the two sig... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050030922 | Method for selecting access point based on state information about access point A method for selecting an access point by considering state information including the number of mobile stations connected in each access point and a traffic amount at each access point is disclosed. The method includes the steps of a) at access points, inserting a first... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050026615 | System and method for performing a handover in a mobile communication system A system and method for performing a handover function in a mobile communication system. The system and method for controlling a User Equipment (UE) to perform a handover from a first Node B to a second Node B in a mobile communication system including a first Radio Net... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050026642 | Power control apparatus and method in a wireless communication system using scheduled packet data service channel Disclosed is a method for handing-off a mobile station receiving packet data over a second channel from a first base station system (BSS) to a second BSS by a base station controller (BSC) in a system in which the mobile station communicates with the first BSS and the s... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050026617 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and mobile station In a mobile communication system, a base station of a cell transmits neighboring cell information to a mobile station located in the cell. The mobile station monitors signals of neighboring cells based on the information. The neighboring cell information includes identi... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050026616 | Common radio resource management method in a multi-RAT cellular telephone network A Common radio resource management method is performed in a mobile radio communication network employing different radio access technologies that overlap over a geographic area subdivided into cells belonging to the domains of respective controllers which are connected ... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050026614 | Code-division-multiple-access mobile communication system accommodating increased number of mobile stations A system for mobile communication, based on code division multiple access includes base stations, each of which communicates with mobile stations by using a plurality of radio frequencies covering respective cells, the respective cells including a first cell covered by ... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050018633 | Method and apparatus for providing a service threshold indicator in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system having a plurality of terminals is provided. At least one quality requirement defining a minimum quality of communication service threshold for receiving information by at least one terminal over a communication... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050020266 | Distance determination apparatus for use by devices in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically cho... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050020265 | Mobile node, router, server and method for mobile communications under ip version 6 (ipv6) protocol In a mobile communication system supported with IP version 6, a mobile node measures at least one of a hop number or communication delay time to a belonging home agent. When the result of measurement is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, registration deleti... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050020264 | Cellular telephone A cellular telephone (100) that searches for a destination base station in accordance with a handoff instruction receives a soft handoff instruction or a hard handoff that is able to specify a first search window size. When the hard handoff instruction is receive... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050009523 | Protocol using forward error correction to improve handover The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a wireless system broadcasting a plurality of data packets to a wireless terminal as the wireless terminal performs a handover in order to support a service. Corresponding data packets are sent in bursts from base... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050007981 | Method and apparatus for use by a GPRS device in responding to change in SAPI connection A method (and corresponding equipment) for use in case of a UE device (18) enabled for communication with other telecommunication devices via a network including a radio access network (17 21) and providing GPRS, the method for use in responding to a messa... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050003820 | Seamless handoff system and method A multicellular communications system where transmission between a roving subscriber and multiple base station transceivers is maintained throughout the territory. Each mobile subscriber unit has global code seeds for the entire communications system or an updated neigh... | 01/06/2005 |
| 20050003819 | Inter-RAT handover to UTRAN with simultaneous PS and CS domain sevices A wireless device initially has simultaneous circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) services with a non-UMTS network. With the CS and PS services ongoing, the non-UMTS network transmits a HANDOVER TO UTRAN COMMAND message to the wireless device to perform a hand... | 01/06/2005 |
