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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20100085869 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING NETWORK PERFORMANCE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus is disclosed for method and apparatus for maintaining network performance in a communication system. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management server (NMS) that manages operations... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100014492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINISTIC LATENCY-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATIONS IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS A method includes obtaining a data message having data associated with a process system and mapping the data message to one of multiple classifications. The method also includes wirelessly transmitting the data message, where a Quality of Service (QoS) associated with t... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100016021 | BASE BAND PROCESSING MODULE N+M BACKUP METHOD BASED ON SWITCHING AND DEVICE THEREOF The present invention discloses a base band processing module N+M backup method based on switch, is characterized in that: a switch unit is added between RF transceiver unit and base band processing unit, and IQ signal forwarding between base band processing modules of ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090088178 | LOAD CONTROL FOR WIRELESS BASE STATION A method of controlling a load at a wireless communication base station includes determining an indication of a maximum path loss between the base station and any high speed data users currently in a cell served by the base station. A target loading limit for the cell i... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090042567 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CONNECTION IDENTIFIER INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method for transmitting Connection Identifier (CID) information by a Base Station (BS) in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first message including information indicating a Transparent Connection Identifier (TCID) range expressed b... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090022114 | ACCESS POINT IN A WIRELESS LAN A wireless access device in a local area network (LAN) having a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver has a directional antenna positioned in a substantially circular array to communicate signals with a plurality of stations in a corresponding sector. Each sector ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090011698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING RESOURCE SCHEDULING INFORMATION AND SCHEDULING RESOURCES The present invention relates to an MBMS service-based method for transmitting resource scheduling information. The method comprises: Before transmitting MBMS information, determining the repetition period information of the local cell transmitting the MBMS information;... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080311910 | MOBILE STATION AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD A mobile station includes a handover controller. When the mobile station simultaneously communicates with a plurality of radio base stations by using first channels and communicates only with a certain one of the plurality of radio base stations by using a second commun... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080311957 | ESTABLISHING WIRELESS LINKS VIA ORIENTATION A system for establishing a wireless link from a wireless communication device (WCD) to at least one target device. The process of both identifying the target device and establishing a link to this device may incorporate the orientation and/or movement of the WCD into t... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080304460 | CELLULAR NETWORK/WLAN VoIP SERVICE INTERACTION BY HOME WIRELESS ROUTER A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service area, the plurality of wireless terminals including at least one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wire... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080280617 | Target Base Station - Based Media Gateway Selection in a Distributed Mobile Switching Center Environment A temporary directory number is assigned (225, 240, 250) in a distributed mobile switching center environment in response to receiving (205) a request for routing information at a signaling node (110) in a telecommunication network (100). The... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080266438 | DIGITAL CAMERA AND METHOD OF OPERATION A camera assembly and a method of camera assembly operation that separately establish camera settings for electronic viewfinder operation and for image capture operation. Further, the camera assembly may be operated in a viewfinder mode using the camera settings for the... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080232314 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A VoIP CONNECTION This invention concerns a method of providing a VoIP connection through wireless communication links of a packet-based wireless communication system, and a corresponding base station and terminal. The wireless communication links comprise an uplink transmission path ( 09/25/2008 | |
| 20080227494 | Method For Transmitting A Sound-Film Message From A Mobile Terminal To Any E-Mail Address The invention relates to means for mobile communications and transmission of data via electronic mail. The object of the invention is to enable a mobile user to transmit an audio message from a mobile terminal to any electronic mail address... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080161054 | Node selection function for multipoint radio network configurations An apparatus is configured to be operably connected to an access network controller device as well as to a pool of network elements which all comprise the same radio network configuration. The apparatus further comprises a selection functionality configured to select an... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080108361 | MULTIRADIO PRIORITY CONTROL BASED ON MODEM BUFFER LOAD A system for controlling communications in a multiradio wireless communication device (WCD) by monitoring a backlog of messages waiting to be wirelessly transmitted through one or more radio modems as compared to a predetermined threshold. If the amount of pending messa... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080102896 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING TRACKING AREA UPDATE AND CELL RESELECTION IN A LONG TERM EVOLUTION SYSTEM The invention performs long term evolution (LTE) tracking area updates (TAUs), and tracking area code (TAC) and public land mobile network identification (PLMN-ID) assisted optimized wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) cell reselection. An evolved Node-B broadcasts sy... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080095051 | Apparatus and method for saving resources between core network and base station controller in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for saving resources between a CN and an BSC in a mobile communication system are provided. When it is determined that a calling MS and a called MS are located within a service area of the BSC and it is instructed to perform neither traffic beare... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080064444 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A RADIO LINK CONTROL LAYER Disclosed are a radio link control (RLC) entity and a data processing method for the RLC entity. The RLC entity includes a transmission data storing module that stores PDUs corresponding to SDUs transmitted from a first upper layer and outputs the stored PDUs by SDU uni... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080051144 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PAGING AN ACCESS TERMINAL IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. A message generator generates a quick paging message formed of page indication locations. Page indication values are populated in selected page indication locations of th... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080009319 | MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE (MBS) APPARATUS AND METHOD IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA) SYSTEM A Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) apparatus and method in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method for providing a broadcast service in the BWA system includes requesting, at MBSC, allocation of MBS bursts by transmitting a profile number ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080009320 | Apparatus, method and software product involving retransmission strategy for a multicast service on a high speed transport channel An apparatus, method, and software product are used for transmitting a broadcast or multicast. Then, indications are received from various user equipments that reception was not adequate. A record of those indications is kept, and based upon that record a determination ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080004076 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND TERMNAL APPARATUS A base station apparatus corresponding to a first base station apparatus of base station apparatuses and connected to terminal apparatuses, first base station apparatus transmitting and receiving first packets with respect to a second base station apparatus correspondin... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070293268 | BASE STATION, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD There are a step in which, when the video data distribution request is received from the mobile station, the base station determines whether the requested video data can be distributed or not, on the basis of the wireless transmission capacity required for distributing ... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070275760 | Hdspa Flow Control, Control Frames Rtt Measurement A radio base station (104) is described herein that measures a round-trip-time (RTT) which is the time it takes an uplink (UL) control frame (109a) to travel to a radio network controller (102)) and a downlink (DL) control frame (109 11/29/2007 | |
| 20070270105 | HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCH A high-frequency switch is constructed by connecting a first diode and a second diode that function as switching elements, inductors, capacitors, and resistors. One end of the resistor is connected between the first diode and the second diode, and the other end of the r... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070259692 | Radio resource management architectures for internet protocol based radio access networks with radio resource control in base stations Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for radio resource management (RRM) architecture for Internet Protocol (IP) based radio access networks. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070243902 | Configuration containing at least two radio sections and method for operating the configuration A configuration contains at least two radio sections. Each radio section in each case has a line-connected network segment and one or more radio network access devices connected thereto in a line-connected manner. In each case mobile radio terminals can be connected by ... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070232358 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF BLUETOOTH AND WIMAX COEXISTENCE IN A MOBILE HANDSET A novel and useful apparatus for and method of Bluetooth and WiMAX coexistence. The invention provides a system approach to achieving coexistence between Bluetooth and WiMAX transceivers collocated in a mobile terminal. The coexistence mechanism of the present invention... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070232353 | Radio communication system, base transceiver station, and extension device A plurality of base transceiver stations and at least one extension device are connected, via an IP network that uses internet protocol. The extension device shares resources of the base transceiver stations by arbitrary changing a connection relationship between the ba... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070225039 | Wireless Node Location Mechanism Using Antenna Pattern Diversity to Enhance Accuracy of Location Estimates A wireless node RF Fingerprinting location mechanism that uses multiple antenna patterns to enhance the accuracy of wireless node location in an RF environment. In one implementation, substantially non-overlapping antenna pattern diversity is used to provide a degree of... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070225003 | Method for coordinated control of radio resources in a distributed wireless system A method is provided for coordinating distributed radio resource management. The method comprises communicating information between a plurality of units having radio resource management responsibilities, wherein the communicated information is related to radio resources... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070218948 | Radio communication system, radio base station, radio communication method, and program for radio communication system The present invention increases, even while transmission rights are not being allocated to respective radio communication terminals, a maximum number of simultaneous connections within a communication capacity range of a communication frequency set in advance, reduce a ... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070213097 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RADIO BASE STATION DEVICE In a radio network controller for controlling a radio base station device for making a communication with a movable terminal through a radio link, first control means for controlling a transfer of a control signal or signalling is provided separately from second control... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070197208 | Mobile station, mobile station communication control method, base station, and communication system It aims at preferentially dealing with emergency communication etc. by a simple and effective method when emergency communication etc. is initiated. In emergency situation, at a mobile station 200, a special call part 206 is switched from a normal mode to ... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070178939 | Method for reducing radio interference between wireless access points A system and method are disclosed for reducing radio interference between wireless access points. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) (102) having a controller (103) tha... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070167164 | Hard handover method and controller The invention is related to a controller of a communication system that includes a module for exchanging messages indicating a traffic channel change between communication system units before hard handover, a module for changing a downlink traffic channel, a module for ... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070159969 | Methods and apparatus for communicating transmission backlog information An uplink dedicated control channel reporting structure includes a plurality of different bit size reports, e.g. 1 bit, 3 bit and 4 bit reports, for reporting a wireless terminal's backlog information of uplink traffic request group queues. Smaller bit size reports are ... | 07/12/2007 |
