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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083303 | OPPORTUNISTIC SPECTRUM ACCESS IN MOBILE COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS A method of spectrum access for wireless communications by a secondary unlicensed unit in a CRN environment comprising one or more secondary unlicensed mobile units and one or more primary licensed units includes receiving information indicative of a location and moveme... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120046056 | SAMPLE SELECTION FOR SECONDARY SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL (SSS) DETECTION Methods and apparatus for selecting samples for secondary synchronization signal (SSS) detection are described. Several alternatives are provided for efficient cell identifier detection. In a first alternative, multiple bursts of a signal received from a cell are sample... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040703 | BROADCASTING METHOD, ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND RADIO APPARATUS A processing unit generates timing information on timing, with which each of radio apparatuses is to synchronize in communication between the radio apparatuses when each of the radio apparatus broadcasts a signal, to control the communication between the radio apparatus... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110312357 | Method for Generating Cooperation Areas in Communications Networks and Corresponding Network Nodes The present invention refers to generating of cooperation areas in a communications network, wherein each cooperation area is defined by at least two base stations of said communications network, which are cooperating when communicating with mobile nodes in said communi... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110255526 | CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL DEVICE, AND INTERSTATION-COOPERATED COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD A cellular mobile communication system, in which a plurality of base stations communicate with mobile stations, provides a retrieval unit, in which each base station retrieves the information regarding the radio communication status of each base station communicating wi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110188480 | RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO ACCESS NETWORK, COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING CIRCUIT, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROLLING METHOD In order to synchronize timings of transmission through a radio channel for broadcast communication even when a plurality of base stations communicate independently of one another, a receiver 11 in a radio base station 10 receives broadcast information INF... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110190015 | BASE STATION SYNCHRONIZATION A method and apparatus of time synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a wireless communication system includes receiving an indication of a timing associated with a synch burst, where the synch burst is from a mastercell having a better time synchronization quali... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110159901 | Method and Arrangement, Cell ID Collision Detection The present invention relates to methods, a communication network node and a user equipment for detecting collision of physical cell identities in a communication network system comprising radio base stations each serving at least one cell through which user equipments ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110143794 | Method and Arrangement for Detecting a Radio Coverage A method and arrangement for detecting a radio coverage in a synchronous multicellular mobile radio system having a multitude of synchronous base stations that are connected to an evaluating unit are provided. All base stations are operated in succession in a measuring ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110124327 | Method for Telecommunications Device Synchronization A method is provided in which a first telecommunications terminal receives an indication of a characteristic of a first system software that is executing on a second telecommunications terminal. The first terminal identifies a second system software that possesses the c... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110065465 | PRECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PRECODING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS To control precoding of a terminal in a serving base station, a first codeword that maximizes transmission power of the serving base station is determined by a codebook, and an index of a second codeword that minimizes interference to the neighboring base station is tra... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110028171 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Radio Resource Control Procedures in Wireless Communication System A method for optimizing a radio resource control procedure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system supports Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission/reception, which enables a plurality of cells cooperating and providing ser... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100226358 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SYNCHRONIZING OVERLAPPING WIRELESS SYSTEMS Methods and devices for synchronizing various independent wireless systems are disclosed. For example, an exemplary first base-station (120) capable of communicating with a first set of remote customer devices using a first wireless protocol and a first spectrum ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100120458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES According to the present invention, Bluetooth master device offset information is determined and distributed among the master devices within a Bluetooth network. The system either provides an offset to each master device or determines master device offsets and distribut... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100120457 | NON-INTERFERING MULTIPATH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A non-interfering multipath communication technique establishes a base transmit and receive period for a variety of spaced apart transceiver devices of a base station and communicates between at least one field station and the base station through those transceiver devi... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100099451 | Method and System for Real Time Control of an Active Antenna Over a Distributed Antenna System The invention is directed to a method and system for supporting wireless medical telemetry services (MTS) on a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). A DAS can support a many wireless services, including voice and data services using the same physical equipment. WMTS systems... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100069106 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FRAME TIMING ACQUISITION IN EVOLVED UNIVERSAL TERRESTRIAL RADIO ACCESS (EUTRA) Aspects of a method and system for frame timing acquisition in evolved universal terrestrial radio access (EUTRA) may include determining a received secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) based on a selected cyclic prefix length and on synchronization of a primary syn... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100035641 | Communication Device, Base Station, Method Of Communication, And Communication System The MS detects a difference in timing or frequency between a reference signal being any one of the received signals from a plurality of BSs and each of the other received signals, notifies the results of detection to BSs other than the source BS of the reference signal,... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090318175 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRANSMIT TIMING FOR COMMUNICATION IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for determining a transmission timing is provided. The method includes steps of, at a first point in time, determining a first transmission timing for transmissions from a user entity to a first radio transceiver, and determining a representation of a first pos... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090305637 | System and Method for Minimizing Interference Between Rfid Reader Disclosed is a method for minimizing interference between RFID readers built in a mobile terminal, it is possible to minimize interference between readers by assigning an operating time specific to the mobile terminal at a specific point of time of a cycle of a mobile c... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090286564 | MOBILE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION A mobile apparatus and method of timing synchronization. The mobile apparatus comprises a timing synchronization controller, a frame detector, a decoder, and a clock generator. The timing synchronization controller determines a number of times of the mobile station cloc... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090170543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MAINTAIN NETWORK COVERAGE WHEN USING A TRANSPORT MEDIA TO COMMUNICATE WITH A REMOTE ANTENNA In a cellular communications system having a centralized radio processing portion (a base station hotel) in communication with a plurality of remote air interface radio portions (or radio heads) over a transport medium, the centralized radio processing portion compensat... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090117928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING TIME AND FREQUENCY OVER A NETWORK A system to distribute accurate time and/or frequency over a network utilizing signals of opportunity transmitted by one or more local transmitters with known locations, the system includes a base receiver with a clock synchronized to a reference time scale such as GNSS... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090088194 | Single Multi-Mode Clock Source for Wireless Devices The wireless device described herein uses a single crystal oscillator to generate the high and low frequency clock signals required by the wireless device during both active and inactive radio communications. An exemplary multi-mode clock unit comprises a single crystal... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090054094 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A CODE GROUP REPRESENTATIVE OF A NUMBER OF BASE STATIONS A method and apparatus for identifying a code group representative of a predetermined number of base stations is disclosed. A chip offset within a frame is input into a first correlator. A plurality of samples of chips at which a primary synchronization code (PSC) has b... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090042591 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING SYNCHRONIZATION TO SUPPORT MULTI-FREQUENCY IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL An apparatus and a method for acquiring synchronization to support multi-frequency in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a frequency generator, a control signal generator and at least two modems for operating respective Frequency Alloca... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090029727 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR SELECTABLY DELAYING SYNCHRONIZATION OF DATABASE COPIES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Apparatus, and an associated method, for selectably delaying performance of synchronization operations in which database copies are placed in match with one another. A user of a mobile node at which a database copy is maintained selectably actuates an actuator to select... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090017852 | TRANSMITTER, MODULATOR AND METHOD FOR SIGNAL SYNCHRONIZATION TRANSMISSION IN SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A method, transmitter and modulator for signal synchronization transmission in a single frequency network transmission system are disclosed. The method includes: extracting effective data from data received; performing channel coding, mapping and modulation to the effec... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090017851 | Synchronization Of A Peer-To-Peer Communication Network In an ad hoc peer-to-peer communications network, timing synchronization is facilitated between two or more nodes. A node can establish an original symbol timing and receive a first timing synchronization symbol from a peer node. A timing adjustment can be calculated ba... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090011782 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION OVER A SHARED MEDIUM Communicating among stations in a network includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from at least some of the stations including a first station. The first station is assigned to a first level. Any stations that can reliably receive transmissions from the first s... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090005093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING BASE STATION SYNCHRONIZATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A system and method for acquiring BS synchronization in a communication system are provided. In the system and method, a first BS acquires synchronization and transmits a frame to at least a second of the one or more neighbor BSs according to the synchronization, a seco... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080287153 | Clock synchronization for a wireless communications system A method of clock synchronization for a wireless communications system includes receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal at a base station and at a network reference server (NRS). The NRS is also coupled to receive a reference clock signal. A clock offset value is then c... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080280634 | Adaptive antenna control method and adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method An adaptive antenna control method is used for a radio communication system built by a plurality of radio base stations and a plurality of terminal stations capable of communicating with the radio base stations. Each radio base station includes an adaptive antenna havin... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080227474 | BASE STATION SYNCHRONIZATION A method, implemented in a user equipment (UE), of maintaining base station synchronization, comprises receiving a measurement message from a radio network controller (RNC) directing the UE to measure a time difference of arrival (TDOA) between signals transmitted from ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080153528 | Non-interfering multipath communication system A non-interfering multipath communication technique establishes a base transmit and receive period for a variety of spaced apart transceiver devices of a base station and communicates between at least one field station and the base station through those transceiver devi... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080102775 | Offset determination arrangement, offset compensation arrangement, synchronization clock generator, method for determination of an offset and modulation method An offset determination arrangement includes a comparator device to compare an input signal with a reference value. A synchronization unit is provided to forward a comparison result of the comparator device as a function of a synchronization signal which can be generate... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080090600 | Unsuitable cell exclusion in wireless communication systems A method for performing initial cell search in wireless communication system wherein unsuitable cells includes searching stored frequencies exhaustively and initial frequencies non-exhaustively. Initial frequencies may be searched exhaustively in certain circumstances. ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080032724 | Remote monitoring and calibration of system reference clock using network timing reference A system and method for calibrating a local radio reference clock for a radio operating in a radio network having a network reference clock. The method comprises determining at the radio an offset between the local clock and the network clock, placing the local clock in... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070293255 | RECEIVED COMMUNICATION SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS AND COMPONENTS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) and methods are used in a wireless communication system to process sampled received signals to establish and/or maintain wireless communications. A selectively controllable coherent accumulation unit produces power delay profiles ... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070281721 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES OF INITIATING COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS Aspects include methods and apparatuses for communicating in an ultra-wideband network. For example, some aspects include a method of wireless communications. The method may include receiving information identifying at least one resource of a second electronic device, t... | 12/06/2007 |
