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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129540 | Signaling mixed resource allocations for D2D communications In an embodiment, for a case in which there is an active connection established between a cellular network and a user equipment UE and the UE has simultaneously an active connection within a local network distinct from the cellular network, there is an indication within... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129517 | Telecommunication networks A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108255 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL USING SCHEDULING INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAME Disclosed are a method for transmitting scheduling information in a mobile communication system and a femtocell base station using the method. A femtocell base station transmits scheduling information using a layered scheduling system in which the femtocell base station... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108252 | Methods and Arrangements for Mobility Management The present invention relates to methods and devices for mobility management UE in a cellular communications system. A user equipment maintains (21) at least two sets of mobility trigger parameters. Each set of mobility trigger parameters corresponds to a predete... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108251 | MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A method of processing a handover request from a base station controller (BSC) of a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication)-type network. The method comprises the steps of passing a handover request with GSM-type parameters from a base station controller (BSC) thro... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108250 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING MINIMUM GUARANTEED BIT RATE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for configuring bit rate in a user equipment (UE) for use in a wireless communication system includes receiving guaranteed bit rate information comprising one or more bit rates which are supported by a base station (BS) for communications with the UE, selecting... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108254 | REFERENCE SIGNAL ALLOCATION METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR SAME, AND TRANSCEIVER DEVICE USING THE APPARATUS Disclosed is a reference signal required for an estimation of a frequency domain channel by a receiver side in order to transmit and receive data between a UE and a BS, and an apparatus and a method for allocating a reference signal for obtaining channel state informati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108249 | POWER CONTROL TECHNIQUE TO MITIGATE INTEREFERENCE IN MULTI-TIER NETWORKS A method and apparatus to manage interference in a multi-cellular network is disclosed. This approach uses downlink power control to allow a serving femto access point of a plurality of femto access points to transmit signals at a first power level to ensure a quality o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108253 | Method And System For User Equipment Selecting A Home Node A method and system for selecting a home node for User Equipment (UE) are provided by the present invention, which can reduce the processing complexity of the UE during the process of selecting the home node for the UE. In the present invention, the channel quality info... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108256 | METHOD FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A USER EQUIPMENT AND A RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER A method for handling communication between a user equipment and a radio network controller of an UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) radio access network includes: providing a transmission instruction by the radio network controller for redirecting the us... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083278 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS AND CARRIER SWITCHING IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS In a multi-carrier wireless communication network, positioning-aware switching of a primary carrier from a first carrier to a second carrier for a UE is constrained to enable one or more positioning measurements to be performed. Either the selection of the second carrie... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083283 | Feedback mapping for D2D control signals A position of a device within a cluster of multiple devices is determined and stored in a memory. An uplink radio resource is mapped from a downlink radio resource in dependence on the determined position of the device within the cluster of multiple devices. In an embod... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083284 | Orthogonal Resource Selection Transmit Diversity and Resource Assignment Methods of allocating orthogonal resources of a wireless communication network to a user equipment (UE) that uses transmit diversity are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the UE is configured to transmit a reference symbol and a modulated symbol on multiple orthogo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120046033 | COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION METHOD IN CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD Provided is a coordinated communication method in which a plurality of cells cooperate to perform multi-antenna transmission and reception in a cellular wireless communication system. A terminal wirelessly transmits channel state information (CSI) feedback to a serving ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046038 | Interference management for distributed antenna systems A central base station for interference management in a distributed antenna system comprises a processor; a memory; and a frequency partition module configured to divide the remote radio heads into clusters and allocate a frequency band to each cluster. Multiple cluster... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046039 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a wireless communication system that enable the allocation of resources to UEs based on measurements of their antenna polarization, in order to suppress the interference between different UEs at a very low ove... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040682 | PRIORITIZATION OF DATA COMMUNICATION Communicating data between multiple devices based on an assigned priority is described. In one aspect, data associated with a local device is received for communication between the local device and a second device. A priority is assigned to the received data based on wh... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040677 | Handling Radio Resource Control Connection Reconfiguration and Related Communication Device A method of handling RRC connection reconfiguration for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device has a RRC connection. The method comprises receiving a first configuration in an RRC message from a network, wherein the first conf... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040683 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF ENHANCERS FOR LOW POWER NODES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION An apparatus and method of communicating with a first plurality of nodes and a second plurality of nodes in wireless communication systems are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving node information from the first plurality of nodes, and a c... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039273 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF UPLINK SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A mobile station for use in a wireless network that operates according to the Long-Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) standard. The mobile station is operable to transmit an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) to a base station in response to a triggering grant recei... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039283 | SEARCH SPACE DESIGN FOR RELAY PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (R-PDCCH) Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for designing, generating, and monitoring the search space for control information for a node, such as a relay node (RN). This control information may comprise a Relay Physical Downlink Control Chan... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034926 | COMPUTATION OF CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK IN SYSTEMS USING COMMON REFERENCE SIGNAL INTERFERENCE CANCELATION When enabled with common reference signal interference cancellation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting d... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STATE/MODE TRANSITIONING A user equipment implements a method of processing indication messages, such as SCRI (signaling connection release indication) messages. For at least one RRC (radio resource control) state, if the current RRC state of the UE is a result of a previously sent indication, ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034928 | METHOD IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method in a Central Node (CN), a method in a Remote Node (RN), and a method in a wireless communication system for allocating reference signals to be used for uplink transmission are disclosed. According to one aspect reference signals are allocated with a method comp... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034927 | TRANSMISSIONOF HARQ CONTROL INFORMATION FROM A USER EQUIPMENT FOR DOWNLINK CARRIER AGGREGATION Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit acknowledgement information together with data information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) or separate from data information in a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The HARQ-ACK ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026957 | Uplink Scheduling and Resource Allocation With Fast Indication Systems and methods for signalling transitions between talk-spurt state and silence state for wireless terminals having semi-persistently allocated uplink resources are employed. A layer 1/2 indication of the state transitions may be transmitted using a resource that is... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021755 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A MULTIPLE USIM MOBILE STATION Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for resource allocation for a TD-SCDMA multiple USIM mobile station. According to certain aspects, a base station may send allocation for a first call with a first subscriber identity to a UE that supports mul... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021756 | CONTROL INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Disclosed is a method for receiving control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of receiving setup information on component carriers which are allocated to a terminal from a base station, determ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020421 | Methods and Apparatus for Varying Reduced Transmission Resources Inter-cell interference coordination across layers of a communication network can be implemented by configuring a cell to transmit one or more downlink transmission resources having variably reduced transmission activity. A transmitting node, such as a macro cell, can t... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020314 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MOBILE TERMINATED CALL PROCESSING BY A FEMTOCELL SYSTEM A system, method, and computer readable medium for processing a call setup in a network system are provided. A femtocell system receives a call origination for a call to be terminated with a user equipment serviced by the femtocell system from a core network, transmits ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021752 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM ASSIGNMENTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Example methods and apparatus to perform assignments in wireless communications are disclosed. A disclosed example method to receive resource assignments at a mobile station involves receiving an assignment message from a network and identifying radio block periods assi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021754 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BANDWIDTH DETERMINATION METHOD Disclosed is a radio communication device that, even when a terminal erroneously receives a retransmission grant or a response signal from a base station, can reduce the number of other terminals in which the terminal interferes at a retransmission. In this device, a de... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021753 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE COORDINATION VIA OVER THE AIR LOAD INDICATOR AND RELATIVE NARROWBAND TRANSMIT POWER Systems and methods for facilitating inter-cell interference coordination using resource partitioning are described. A UE may receive or determine information related to received interference and/or future scheduling. The information may be communicated to a serving bas... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015659 | Cognitive Interference Management in Wireless Networks with Relays, Macro Cells, Micro Cells, Pico Cells and Femto Cells Cognitive interference management in Cellular wireless network with relays and micro/pico/femto cells operated in distributed scheduling mode. A cellular system may use RS to improve capacity or for coverage extension. A RS relays the signals between BS 104 and M... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015663 | COMBINED BASE TRANSCEIVER STATION AND BASE STATION CONTROLLER A combined base station controller (12) and base transceiver station (14) comprises a selector distribution unit (SDU, 20), a main call control (MCC, 22) coupled to the SDU, a radio call control (RCC, 18) coupled to the MCC, and a chan... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009935 | Method and base station for implementing carrier aggregation The present invention discloses a method and base station for implementing a carrier aggregation. The method comprises: a base station determines predetermined information, wherein the predetermined information comprises reserved resources for the carrier aggregation an... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008573 | RADIO RESOURCE SIGNALING DURING NETWORK CONGESTION IN A MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE A method for radio link control in a mobile wireless communication device The mobile wireless device transmits a sequence of service requests to establish radio resources with a wireless communication network for a data packet in a pending data buffer. When no radio res... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120009933 | Method For Trransitioning Between Multiple Reception Levels There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to transition between a non-discontinuous reception (Non-DRX) level and at least one discontinuous reception (DRX) level. The UE in a DRX level wakes up periodically to monitor a scheduling channel. The metho... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120009934 | METHOD FOR INFORMING USER EQUIPMENT OF DOWNLINK CONTROL MESSAGE CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION IN CELLULAR SYSTEM A method for transmitting control messages from a base station to a user equipment in a cellular system is disclosed. The method includes grouping a plurality of control messages for at least one user equipment based on at least one criteria of whether or not uplink ACK... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008574 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE MODULATION AND CODING An adaptive modulation and coding method is provided by the present invention, comprising: selecting punctured Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) to transmit the downlink data for the User Equipment (UE); determining the Transport Block Size (TBS) and the number of punctur... | 01/12/2012 |
