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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110249644 | ALLOCATING RESOURCE UNITS TO A MOBILE STATION Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example, a method may include permuting, by a superordinate station in a wireless network, physical resource units to logical resource units, the physical resource units of sequential logical resource units bei... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250898 | Resource allocation A method of communicating control information performed by a communication device in a mobile telecommunication system in which each of a plurality of communication devices are allocated plural orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) resource allocations, the ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250899 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORKS A method for power control in a long term evolution (LTE) network is disclosed and includes configuring a user equipment (UE) with a plurality of transmit power levels where each transmit power level corresponds to a subframe type. A first power level is used in subfram... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244873 | METHOD FOR PILOT SYMBOL TRANSMISSION IN DOWNLINK MIMO SYSTEM The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a pilot signal in a downlink MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) system that supports a first UE (User Equipment) supporting N number of transmission antennae out of a total of M transmission antennae and supports a... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244874 | Integrated Multi-Radio Access Technology Multi-Frequency Admission Control A node of a multi-radio access technology (RAT) system acquires resource status information associated with each RAT of the multi-RAT system. The resource status information of the RATs of the multi-RAT system can be acquired by sniffing higher layer protocol informatio... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES A wireless communication device includes conventional components to permit a network communication link to be established with a wireless communication network. In addition, the wireless communication device includes a non-network short-range transceiver that detects th... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243122 | SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION SEQUENCES FOR CELL GROUP DETECTION IN A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM Timing parameters and an identity of a particular one of a number of cell groups are indicated in a signal transmitted in a cellular communication system having a radio frame in a physical layer, the radio frame comprising a number of time slots. In a known one of the t... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244876 | Cellular Communication System and Method for Broadcast Communication A cellular communication system (100) is arranged to support a single cell identifier reuse pattern using a first communication. Management logic (146) comprises broadcast mode logic (150) arranged to support a common cell identifier reuse pattern f... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for wireless communication is disclosed which includes selecting a first resource pattern comprising resource elements that are non-colocated with a second resource pattern and allocating the first resource pattern to a plurality of antennas for transmitting a ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110237270 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN A DOWNLINK MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEM In a system having a plurality of cells participating in a Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) operation, a method for transmitting Reference Signals (RSs) to User Equipment (UE) includes generating, by Base Station (BS) included in each of the plurality of cells, a subframe... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237271 | MULTI-MVNO WIRELESS SERVICE Systems and methods for determining an optimal range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves are described. In some embodiments, mobile voice communications devices measure average power received from certain ranges of such frequencies, each range associated with a comm... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING ACTIVATION DETECTION A method for activating a semi-persistent scheduled (SPS) resource using a user agent (UA) is presented. A downlink (DL) communication may be received by a UA using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DL communication may include a control message. When the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237267 | UE-RS SEQUENCE INITIALIZATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Pseudo-random sequences of a plurality of user equipment specific reference signals (UE-RSs) for use by a plurality of user equipments (UEs) are initialized, the initialization of each pseudo-random sequence associated with each UE-RS being independent of a specific UE ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237265 | MOBILE STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is a mobile station device which can increase the success ratio and reduce a communication delay when transmitting a dedicated preamble from the mobile station device to a base station device by using a random access channel (RACH). The mobile station device pe... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237266 | Sounding Reference Signal Transmission During Discontinuous Reception A method implemented by a user equipment (UE). An indicator is read. One or more sounding reference signals (SRS) are not reported when the indicator is set to “true” and an On Duration Timer associated with a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle is not running. One ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237269 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT REPORTING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A mobile communications device with a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transceiving to and from a first cellular station of a first service network and a second cellular station of a second service network, where... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110237268 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD There is provided a management server including a holding unit for holding a location/frequency list in which location information and frequency information are associated, a list creation unit for creating an available frequency list by extracting, from the location/fr... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110230198 | Apparatus and Method An apparatus and a method are provided. The provided solution includes determining at least one sub cell specific spectrum load characteristic by an apparatus serving a sub cell; receiving neighbor cell information from an apparatus serving a cell and transmitting the a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230199 | Initial Connection Establishment in a Wireless Communication System A method, user equipment, network equipment and a system for initiating a wireless connection and subsequent communication over a shared physical resource in a wireless communication system between user equipment and network equipment comprising: processing a UE-derived... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230196 | DROPPED CALL RECONNECTION SYSTEM WITH INTER-NETWORK CAPABILITIES Reconnecting a dropped call between two parties by detecting an unintentional disconnection of one connection of the call using a system connected to a network associated with at least one of the parties to the call. A detection task receives the number identifications ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230197 | System and apparatus for high speed train communication This invention discloses a wireless communication system and apparatus for ground to high speed train communication. Unlike other priori arts, the proposed system exploits the train time table, train operating scenarios and GSM-R timing provision so that the train-prese... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110223926 | RADIO TERMINAL, RADIO BASE STATION, CHANNEL SIGNAL FORMING METHOD AND CHANNEL SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD A radio terminal, radio base station, channel signal forming method and channel signal receiving method wherein when an upstream unit band and a plurality of downstream unit bands associated therewith are used to perform communications, the quality of downstream assignm... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223925 | Antennae System Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications networks, and more specifically to an antenna apparatus for cellular wireless systems. Increasing data capacity of cellular wireless systems places increasing demands on the capacity of the two way connectio... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223927 | METHOD OF RELAYING DATA A method of relaying data in a relay station of a wireless communication system based on a radio frame consisting of a plurality of downlink subframes and a plurality of uplink subframes is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, scheduling informa... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223924 | SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULED RESOURCE RELEASE PROCEDURE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK The invention relates to a method for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation of a user equipment in an LTE-based mobile communication system. Furthermore, the invention also related to a user equipment and a eNode B implementing this method. To provide a mec... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223905 | METHOD FOR DETECTING COVERAGE LOSS IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM A method for detecting coverage loss in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed, which recognizes a connection state between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS), and provides a method and apparatus for quickly performing network re-entry when the MS mo... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110217983 | MOBILE STATION, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD A mobile station, where the mobile station includes a reception quality measurement unit, a channel quality information transmission unit, and a control signal transmission unit, where the reception quality measurement unit is configured to measure a reception quality o... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212729 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING BASE STATIONS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and a Mobile Station (MS), for use in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) capable of communicating with a plurality of MSs, wherein at least some of the BSs are Femtocell BSs (FBSs) and at least some of the BSs are Mac... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110212730 | 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... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110212731 | METHOD OF RESOURCE RESERVATION REQUEST AND RESOURCE RESERVATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method of resource reservation request and resource reservation in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of resource reservation request of a mobile station in a wireless communication system with femto cells comprises transmitting a resource reservat... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110207465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STATE/MODE TRANSITIONING A user equipment implements a method of processing indication messages, such as SCRI (signalling connection release indication) messages. The use equipment (UE) maintains a count of how many indication messages with a cause set have been sent by the UE while in at least... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207466 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND IDENTIFIER ASSIGNMENT METHOD A terminal information acquiring unit acquires terminal information on the priority of a terminal device that requests the assignment of a preamble to a base station apparatus. A priority determining unit determines whether the priority of the terminal device is not les... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207468 | BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM [Problems] Because it is not possible to reduce sufficiently the number of base stations that starts uselessly in spite of being in low traffic state, it is not possible to lower interference between adjacent cells and power consumption sufficiently. | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110207467 | BASE STATION, UPPER NODE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A base station includes a scheduling unit and a call reception control unit. The call reception control unit includes a managing unit that updates total resource usage amount based on total resource allocation amount and manages the total resource usage amount, and a de... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110201344 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus of providing a machine-type communication (MTC) service in a wireless communication system is provided. The method include transmitting information of an MTC group, to which an MTC device belongs, to the MTC device, wherein the MTC group is a grou... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201345 | PHYSICAL CELL ID ALLOCATION METHOD AND BASE STATION The present invention discloses a Physical Cell ID (PCI) allocation method and a base station. The PCI allocation method includes the following steps: a target base station obtains a usable PCI list sent by an Operations And Maintenance (OAM) function entity, and remove... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATIONS A method and apparatus for supporting machine-type communications (MTC) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may configure itself to operate in a mobile-originated-only mode. The WTRU may perform no, or a subset of, radio resource control (RRC) idle an... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201334 | Energy-Efficient Network Methods and Apparatus Methods and apparatus for changing the transmission/reception setup of a base station (BS) in a communication network to another transmission/reception setup (such as one using fewer transmit antennas and/or lower channel bandwidths) without affecting communication with... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201311 | METHOD OF INITIAL ACCESS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method of initial access in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of initial access of a mobile station in a wireless communication system with femtocells comprises selecting a base station to which the mobile station requests information of femto cel... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110201341 | COORDINATING UPLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION A base station configured for coordinating uplink resource allocation is described. The base station includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The base station generates uplink resource allocation information for one or more wireless communication devices.... | 08/18/2011 |
