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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129560 | PRIORITY-BASED FAIRNESS AND INTERFERENCE SIGNALLING TECHNIQUE IN A FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to at least a method, computer program, and apparatus to transmit a beacon from a first access node to a first user terminal associated with the first access node and also to a second user terminal associated with a seco... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108200 | MOBILE DEVICE-BASED BANDWIDTH THROTTLING Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing mobile device-based bandwidth throttling. In one aspect, a method includes receiving policy from a wireless carrier that specifies one or more data usage ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE RADIO RECEIVE CHAINS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS The present invention provides architectures and methods which use multiple radio receive chains in mobile devices to boost performance of the mobile devices. While a first set of the receive chains are assigned to a serving base station, another set of receive chains a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108165 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD A wireless communication system includes a calculator that calculates the number of mobile stations for which amplification is to be performed or the rate of mobile stations for which amplification is to be performed among all mobile stations; an allocator that based on... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108282 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POWER CONTROL AND INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS MICROPHONE TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS A wireless microphone receiver is used to control transmission power and/or channel configuration of wireless microphones which communicate audio data to the wireless microphone receiver. In some embodiments the wireless microphone receiver searches for available channe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108283 | Communication Network and Method In a communication network including a plurality of base stations, a method including the steps of: sending a signal from said base station indicating that it will enter a period of inactivity, to at least one other base station; storing at that least one current parame... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108257 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF BASE STATION AND TARGET TERMINAL Provided is a communication method of a base station and a target terminal. Resources used for a channel feedback may be reduced by determining a wireless resource based on information about a channel and information about a mobility of the target terminal in each of at... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108276 | COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING IN COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS Providing for cooperative sensing in wireless communications that improves user terminal throughput and minimizes interference is described herein. According to some aspects, a network entity, such as a base station, can assign a set of SUTs to measure a subset of wirel... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108285 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio communication system (1) wherein a radio base station (BS1), which allocates to a radio terminal (UE1) a radio resource specified by the combination of a frequency and a time, and a radio base station (BS2), which allocates to the rad... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083199 | Partitioning Resources on a Target Side of a Handover of a User Equipment Based on Data Traffic Indication It is described a method for partitioning radio transmission resources within a telecommunication network. The method includes (a) preparing a handover of a user equipment from a source access point being assigned to a source side of the telecommunication network to a t... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083204 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Access In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus such as a terminal receives a message comprising cell reservation information, stores information indicating whether the terminal is a machine-type terminal, sends an attachment request towa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081231 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING MEDIA DEVICES CONFIGURED TO OUTPUT SIGNALS TO SURROUNDING AREA A system of controlling media devices configured for outputting signals to a surrounding area. The system including a control strategy for controlling operation of the media devices to execute operations according to a common schedule and a communications strategy for u... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083306 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANTENNA SWITCHING FOR 60 GHZ DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION Methods and systems for antenna switching for 60 GHz distributed communication are disclosed and may include enabling antenna configurations in a plurality of remote RF modules within a computing device to receive RF signals. A signal characteristic may be measured for ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS A method and an apparatus for random access are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), an access indication message including a UE identifier (ID) and a corresponding resource number (101); sending a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071188 | DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ALLOCATION METHOD AND DEVICE A dynamic spectrum allocation method and device are provided. The method includes: finding non-idle frequency bands in the coverage of a communication device according to information in a database; selecting a frequency band from the non-idle frequency bands as a negoti... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071185 | BUFFER STATUS REPORT CONTROL FOR CREATING TRANSMISSION GAPS A method for wireless communication modifies an actual buffer status report value to create a modified buffer status report that is reported to a base station. The modified buffer status report value results in the base station sending fewer uplink grants to a user equi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069825 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A radio communication system including: a first and second base station apparatuses which include one or more of sells or sectors respectively; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the first and second base station apparatuses and the terminal apparatus performs radio comm... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071187 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES THAT USE DIFFERING PROTOCOLS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A control device includes at least one communication interface for communicating first control data with at least one first communication device that utilizes the millimeter wave frequency band in accordance with a first protocol and further for communicating second con... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052895 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING BASED ON COORDINATED RANK IN MULTI-CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An adaptive scheduling method and apparatus that adaptively perform scheduling based on a coordinated rank in a multi-cell communication system are provided. A master base station may schedule, with a first priority, master terminals, each of which has a preferred rank ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052894 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL SCHEDULING OF FREQUENCY RESOURCES FOR COMMUNICATION NODES Various schedulers are disclosed for use within a network node of a radio access network. A scheduler can be configured to divide a defined frequency bandwidth into a plurality of bandwidth pipes. The scheduler then develops sets of nodes that are candidates for using c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052896 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING HIERARCHICAL VIRTUAL ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE A mobile communication method, a base station and a mobile communication system employing a hierarchical virtual antenna architecture are disclosed. The method comprises steps of: negotiating, by a first base station, with a second base station about a transmission mode... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052885 | Method and Apparatus for Enabling Common Channel Communications of SMS A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which 1×CSFB for communication of SMS messages in an LTE environment may be avoided. An IWS may receive a paging request message from a MSC, wherein the paging request mes... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052897 | BEAM WOBBLING FOR INCREASED DOWNLINK COVERAGE AND CAPACITY A method and apparatus for reducing signal interference within a cellular radio system to increase both coverage and capacity. The method and apparatus include altering the direction of beams within cell sectors is among discrete angular positions according to a predete... | 03/01/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120046055 | ACCESS POINT POWER CONTROL There is described a method of controlling a basestation in a cellular wireless communications network, the method comprising, within the basestation, autonomously and dynamically adapting a maximum value for a total transmit power of the basestation, such that interfer... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046057 | Access Control with Partial Support for Communications A control apparatus configured to allow a communication device supporting a first frequency setting to enter a system providing a communications facility based on a second frequency setting, wherein the first frequency setting provides only a partial support for communi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044899 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME The present invention discloses a method in which user equipment receives control information in a wireless communication system adopting carrier aggregation. In detail, the method comprises the steps of receiving a control region via one or more component carriers from... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046058 | LOCAL BREAKOUT WITH PARAMETER ACCESS SERVICE The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing access via a cellular access network to a packet data net-work, wherein control plane functions of a gateway device of a core net-work are emulated to the core network, and ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046059 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING THE STATUS OF A REQUESTED SERVICE A method of network-directed service status order at a mobile station, includes the steps of: (a) from the mobile station sending an origination message, over the network, requesting a service with the network; (b) in response to the origination message, at the mobile s... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044888 | Method for Switching Channels in a Wireless Communication Network A method for switching channels in a wireless communication network comprising at least one access point and clients, wherein the communication network as secondary user uses one of a number of possible channels for data communication. In accordance with the invention, ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040705 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Each of a plurality of wireless base stations includes: a storage unit that stores flag that indicates whether or not its own station is master base station; a determination unit that determines a wireless parameter set that is set in channels used for transmission of M... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040704 | METHOD FOR RESOURCE ELEMENT GROUP DOWNSIZING OF R-PDCCH AND MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE SAME The present invention relates to a method for reducing a resource element group (REG) size, which is used at a control channel element (CCE) for a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), for the purpose of easy interleaving by a physical resource block (PRB) ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034943 | WIRELESS LOAD BALANCING ACROSS BANDS A technique for wireless load balancing involves providing a wireless infrastructure that creates a target band option and helps push clients toward that band. An example of a method according to the technique involves, by way of example but not limitation, responding o... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034945 | ALLOCATING A CONTROL CHANNEL FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION Methods for allocating a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to reduce a number of PDCCH candidates in a search space for carrier aggregation on a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. The method comprises the step of selecting a control channel element (CCE) aggrega... | 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 |
| 20120033623 | Group Call Control In A Wireless Broadband Communication Network A method and system for group call control in a broadband wireless network. A group call (push-to-talk) server initiates and regulates group call communication sessions. A wireless base station communicates with one or more group call participants. When a request to par... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034942 | BASE STATION SHARING An improved base station sharing in a radio communication system is disclosed. A logical base station is arranged to share a physical base station in the radio communication system with at least one further logical base station. According to an embodiment of the inventi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028667 | SUM-RATE BALANCING IN WIRELESS MULTICELL AND MULTICARRIER SYSTEM A method in a communication node of a wireless communications system that provides at least two communication links each having at least two frequency channels. The communication node is configured to communicate with a receiving communication node over a link under inf... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028668 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In a wireless communication system a control channel is required in order to use limited resources effectively. However, the control channel resource is part of the system overhead, and thus reduces the data channel resource used for data transmission. In the long term ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021793 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION A mobile communication method of the present invention includes a step of causing a radio base station 200 to allocate a communication timing selected from a plurality of communication timing candidates to a mobile station 300, and to notify a radio networ... | 01/26/2012 |
