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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120108245 | Energy Reduction in Cooperating Radio Access Systems The invention relates to cooperation between first and second wireless access networks that can be used to obtain energy reduction for or traffic routing within the overall telecommunications infrastructure while still enabling acceptable network coverage and satisfacto... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120071167 | Method and System for Controlling Cell Reselections on a Computing Device A method and a system for controlling cell reselection on a computing device are disclosed. The method comprises detecting the mobile device operating under a potential over-shuttling reselection condition, and making a determination as to whether the mobile computing d... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110244866 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND LOAD BALANCING AWARE HANDOVER METHOD THEREFOR An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication system in which the load of each cell and interference between cells are taken into account. In a handover-candidate base station and a handover-source base station, parameters for interference-reducing s... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110189997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODE DEVICE HANDOVER Systems and methods of operating multimode 3G/4G communications devices in an overlapping 3G/4G coverage area (e.g., WiMAX or LTE/CDMA-EvDO) include determining a loading condition of the 3G and 4G base stations. If the 3G and 4G base stations are lightly loaded, one or... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110136490 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, FEMTOCELL RADIO BASE STATION, AND NETWORK APPARATUS The disclosed mobile communication method is a mobile communication method in a mobile communication system, wherein at least a part of a macro-cell (#A), with which first broadcast information is transmitted at a first frequency, and a femto cell (#a), in which second ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110105129 | FEMTOCELL SEARCH METHOD FOR MACRO TO FEMTO HANDOVER The present invention relates to a femtocell search method for a handover from a macrocell to a femtocell. The present invention relates to a method for a terminal that accesses a macrocell to search a femtocell in an environment where a plurality of femtocells are over... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110072469 | Addressing Fringe Areas in Broadcast Networks Methods and systems for addressing fringe areas within a broadcast network are described. At least one broadcast stream may be transmitted at a broadcast network A determination may be made as to whether a fringe area exists in the broadcast network. Information of the ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100317351 | DETECTION OF COLLISIONS OF RADIO COVERAGE CELL IDENTIFIERS Additional information is included in or used to generate a positioning reference signal to enable detection of a cell identifier “collision” between two different cells associated with two or more base stations. In one example embodiment, a user equipment terminal ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100304749 | System and Method for Communicating Radio Access Technology Information to Mobile Stations A mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT) and capable of communicating via a second radio access technology (RAT). The mobile station comprising a component configured to receive a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT. Th... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100298002 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO CONTROL STATION, AND RADIO BASE STATION A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of causing a mobile station in a standby mode in a first cell to transmit a communication start request signal, a step B of judging whether or not to measure communication quality of a se... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100120436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCATING A CELLULAR PHONE According to an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for geographically locating a cellular phone. The method comprises: determining an effective cell-area for each of a first cell and a second cell in a cellular network; and determining a handover a... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100099417 | METHOD FOR MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HANDING OFF A MOBILE TERMINAL USING MULTI-ZONE MANAGEMENT In a multi-zone management method of a mobile terminal and a handoff method of the mobile terminal using multi-zone management, the mobile terminal records or deletes zone identification information in or from a base station table managed for a handoff, and the zone ide... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20090156221 | Handover method and apparatus in mobile network A method and an apparatus for performing handover in a mobile communication network are provided. The method of performing handover in a mobile communication network includes: obtaining a service providing time period and a utility function on a candidate network basis;... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090156220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOVER IN MOBILE NETWORK, AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF A method and an apparatus for performing handover in a mobile communication network and a mobile communication terminal using the same are provided. The method of performing handover in a mobile communication network includes: receiving information about signal intensit... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090149184 | LOAD BALANCING BY TERMINAL TYING Example embodiments of methods, computer program products, apparatus, and systems for controlling handover of a terminal device are disclosed. In an example system, a terminal device is configured to select a handover target and initiate handover on its own. In the exam... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090036135 | MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATION METHOD There is provided a multi-carrier communication method capable of preventing lowering of a throughput of another mobile device accompanying allocation of a sub-carrier for a new mobile station device. This multi-carrier communication method can acquire reception quality... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080188226 | Telecommunication system and operating method A telecommunication system includes a first cell and a second cell overlapping one another in an overlap region, a first base station in the first cell, a second base station in the second cell, a first relay station configured to provide a multi-hop relay function betw... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080020772 | Systems and methods for reduced overhead in wireless communication networks having SDMA modulation Advantage is taken of the fact that downlink quality is always known at a mobile station. Thus, a base station may use preference information from the mobile station as a basis for assigning a channel, rather than requiring the details of channel conditions. In one embo... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070105559 | Methods for dividing base station resources Methods for dividing resources of base stations among multiple mobile stations are provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, an overlapping group having a plurality of mobile stations that are overlapped between at least two cellular areas are generated (<... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070066334 | Locating system utilising adjustable transmission power in a micro-cellular network A communications system and a method of wireless communication for mobile units (MU) within a facility having a central controller (FP server), a plurality of wireless base stations (BS1-BS11) having an adjustable transmission power. The base stations are ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070042778 | Cellular radio network reusing frequencies Method of arranging a cellular radio network in a geographical area which is already covered by an existing cellular radio network, wherein cell clusters of the cellular radio network to be introduced and using a specific transmission frequency are located in areas dete... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20070015512 | Forward link based rescue channel method and apparatus for telecommunication systems A forward rescue procedure (FRP) for preventing loss of signal and dropped connections between a mobile station and the infrastructure in a wireless telecommunications network is disclosed. The FRP allows wireless systems to recover from forward link failures at the mob... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060128385 | Method and system for MIPv4-based fast handoff between heterogeneous networks Disclosed herein is a method and system for Mobile Internet Protocol version 4 (MIPv4)-based fast handoff between heterogeneous networks. The method includes the first step of an Mobile Station (MS) acquiring information about a second Foreign Agent (FA) pertaining to a... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060073831 | Transfer of a user equipment in a communication system The disclosure relates to transfer of a user equipment from a network to another network. In the method a user equipment communicating with a first network is transferred from the first network to a second network providing resources to a plurality of operators. After i... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060068792 | System and method for using determination of the operating parameters of a mobile device A system and method of determined selected operating parameters for a mobile unit (102). Mobile device performance information is monitored in at least one neighboring cell (108, 110, or 112) and mobile device performance information is monitored in... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20050272429 | Approximating cell geometry in a cellular transmission system Approximating cell geometry in a cellular transmission system User equipment (UE1) for use in a cellular transmission system comprising a processor configuration (6) to provide data corresponding to first and second parameters (a, b) for dimensional extent... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050059403 | Traffic channel allocating method in gsm mobile communication The present invention relates to a method for allocating a traffic channel in a concentric cell. Said method comprises the following steps: establishing a SDCCH (Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel) between the base station and the mobile station; the base station rec... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050048979 | Method for configuring and allocating forward channel in orthogonal frequency division multiple access frequency division duplex system Disclosed is a forward channel configuring method in an OFDMA FDD system. The method comprises: classifying the cells into a specific number of patterns based on location relations of the respective cells; allowing the respective base stations of the cells having differ... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050048980 | Fast delivery of multimedia messages in cellular networks A method for delivering a multimedia message to a mobile station in a cellular wireless environment, including a plurality of base stations whose cell coverage overlaps in determined overlapping regions and form a location area, and a base station control element in cha... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050009518 | Signalling method For control of connections in cellular telecommunication systems, particularly setting up and releasing of connections, it is checked whether a radio resource control (RRC) connection is already active during setting up of anew mobility management (MM) connection. If an... | 01/13/2005 |
