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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129462 | COGNITIVE RADIO An apparatus configured to operate under cognitive radio principles. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform spectrum sensing in the apparatus to produce spectrum sensing data; and first circuitry configured to share the spectrum sensing data with other... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129461 | Self-Positioning Of A Wireless Station A self-positioning mechanism is provided that determines and tracks the position of an access point in real time. A location unaware access point determines its location from the locations of location aware stations. The location is determined based on a predicted estim... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129460 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY INVOKING POSITIONING SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE DEVICE CONTROL APPLICATIONS USING WIRELESS NETWORK MEASUREMENTS Systems and methods are provided for selectively invoking a positioning system in mobile device control applications. A processor receives a measurement representative of wireless networks in an environment of a mobile device, and evaluates the first measurement using f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129465 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD A communication terminal (10) including a first communication unit (11) and a second communication unit (12) with a shorter communication distance than the first communication unit (11) includes a presence status detection unit (13) th... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130827 | SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIENCE SIZE MEASUREMENT AND INTERACTIVITY A system for automatically measuring the size of a radio or television audience at any particular time is provided. In the system, a remote computer may identify the broadcast stations to which listening devices, such as radios or televisions, are tuned. To identify the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129463 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes following units. The first timer measures first time intervals. The second timer measures second time intervals. The time interval selection unit selects a second time interval among second time in... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129464 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ACCESS POINT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio communication system including a radio terminal capable of establishing a plurality of transmission paths, includes: a selecting unit for selecting transmission paths to be used for transmitting user data from among a plurality of transmission paths; and an esta... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108177 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL MEASUREMENT IN RADIO LINK MONITORING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A subscriber station is configured to perform a channel measurement on a communication channel in restricted sub-frames for DRX and NON-DRX modes. The subscriber station includes a receiver configured to receive signals from a base station. The subscriber station also i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108212 | Monitoring System For Mobile Terminal And Monitoring Method Thereof A monitoring system for a mobile terminal is disclosed in the present disclosure. The monitoring system comprises: a monitoring mobile terminal, being configured to send monitoring request information; and at least one monitored mobile terminal, being configured to rece... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108178 | ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN RF SIGNAL An antenna system and method utilize an evaluation branch circuit and an implementation branch circuit. These circuits are each connected to both a first antenna input and a second antenna input. An output of the evaluation branch circuit is in communication with a cont... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108176 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a method for optimizing mobile wireless communications is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first communications signal from a first wireless network provider, receiving at least one additional communications s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108175 | MULTIPLE SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION IN WIRELESS RECEIVERS A frontend receiver of a user equipment (UE) is configured with multiple transform operations assigned to separate sets of cells. One set of cells includes the serving cell of the UE and at least one additional cell within a first offset range of the serving cell. Anoth... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082041 | POWER HEADROOM REPORTING Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for power headroom reporting. A mobile device may identify a transmit power associated with each of a number of independently power controlled channels on one or multiple carriers configured for ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS In systems and methods for analyzing spectrum, a radio system may sample spectrum and transmit the sample to a remote spectrum analysis system. The remote spectrum analysis system analyzes the sample to determine if an incumbent radio system or radar is present and retu... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083221 | INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS FOR OBSERVED TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL Aspects of this invention include a method, system and computer program to perform mobile node measurements. In a method there are steps of receiving from a location server at a mobile user node a request to perform inter-frequency reference signal time difference measu... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083219 | MULTI-RADIO TEST METHOD AND TEST FIXTURE A method for testing characteristics of a communication device that includes a plurality of modules using a test fixture includes the steps of connecting the communication device to the test fixture, determining if tests to be performed on the plurality of modules can b... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083220 | Determining the quality of service in a communication terminal device The invention relates to a method for determining the quality of service of at least one service, whereby several parameters that represent the quality of service are detected in a communication terminal device. With the method, at least one second parameter is associat... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071106 | REDUCED TRANSMIT POWER FOR WIRELESS RADIO COEXISTENCE In user equipments (UEs) with multiple radios, interference between those radios may be reduced by monitoring radio performance and adjusting aggressor transmit power levels to ensure victim and aggressor performance stay within desired operational levels. Various facto... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071103 | MULTI-RADIO COEXISTENCE A method of wireless communication includes adjusting a channel quality indicator (CQI) to compensate for coexistence interference experienced between communication resources (such as an LTE radio and a Bluetooth radio). The CQI may be set to zero, falsely indicating to... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUCCH SUBBAND FEEDBACK SIGNALING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK A mobile station for use in a wireless network. The mobile station transmits feedback reports to a base station of the wireless network. The feedback reports comprise a first feedback report, a second feedback report and a third feedback report. The first feedback repor... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071105 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE DETECTION OF RADIO-FREQUENCY DEVICES Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of electronic communications devices, such as cellular phones, are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a complex radio frequency stimulus is transmitted into a target area, and nonlinear reflection signals received from th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052815 | METHODS FOR DYNAMIC CALIBRATION OF OVER-THE-AIR PATH LOSS IN OVER-THE-AIR RADIO-FREQUENCY TEST SYSTEMS Calibration equipment for calibrating multiple test stations in a test system is provided. Each test station may include a test unit, a test chamber with an over-the-air (OTA) antenna, and a radio-frequency (RF) cable that connects the test unit to the test chamber. Ref... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052814 | TAIL OPTIMIZATION PROTOCOL FOR CELLULAR RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION Systems and methods for increasing the power and resource efficiency of a mobile network device are presented herein. More particularly, described herein is a novel Tail Optimization Protocol (TOP) and/or other mechanisms, systems and methods for enabling cooperation be... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045999 | ADAPTIVE ARRAY ANTENNA DEVICE AND ANTENNA CONTROL METHOD An adaptive array antenna device (120) includes: a wireless transmission antenna unit (121) which wirelessly transmits content data to q partner device; a path information calculation unit (123) which calculates transmission path information for spe... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045997 | Radio Frequency Transceiver A radio frequency transceiver includes a mixer circuit configured to convert an intermediate frequency signal into a radio frequency signal, a driver amplifier circuit configured to amplify the radio frequency signal from the mixer circuit, a temperature sensing circuit... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046066 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Provided is a wireless communication apparatus that transfers information required for a terminal, which performs a carrier aggregation, to be handed over to another base station, while reducing the size of a measurement result report. When establishing wireless communi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044821 | CONTROL CHANNEL MONITORING APPARATUS IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a control channel and an apparatus thereof. A reference carrier is set, and then the multi-carrier sends blind decoding area information based on the reference carrier to monitor a control channel. A terminal moni... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040621 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REPORTING LOGGED MEASUREMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus of reporting a logged measurement in a wireless communication system are provided. A user equipment receives a Minimization of Drive Tests (MDI) configuration and logs measurements based on the MDT configuration to collect a logged measurement. Th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040622 | METHOD FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND BASE STATION A method for reporting channel state information includes: obtaining channel state information of a described object; and feeding back the obtained channel state information to a base station in a comb manner. A method for channel estimation includes: receiving channel ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040602 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATION OF THE TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF A RADIO FREQUENCY SYSTEM A device and method for estimating the operational effectiveness, status, and protection range of an electronic countermeasures system in real time or near real time are provided. The device and method calculate a predicted ECM power at a given location using a propagat... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040625 | REAL-TIME RSL MONITORING IN A WEB-BASED APPLICATION A system and method for monitoring an attribute of a received signal in a wireless network having plural radios wherein one of the radios includes a monitoring module operatively connected to a second network. An attribute of one radio is monitored substantially continu... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034878 | CELL MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND PROCESS A cellular communications system is described in which a mobile cellular device can, if necessary, obtain cell measurements for cells contained within a first cell list after it has received a second cell list. The mobile device then reports the cell measurements for ce... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034879 | Inter-Radio Access Technology Measurement System and Method A network access device is provided with one or more processors configured for macrotechnology-based transmission to a multi-mode user equipment of a signal including a plurality of data portions and a plurality of gaps between one or more of the plurality of data porti... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034874 | APPARATUSES AND/OR METHODS OF INTERFERENCE MITIGATION AND/OR RATE IMPROVEMENT VIA UNCOORDINATED BEAMFORMING IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS A method of selecting beamforming vectors for a first transmitter and a first receiver communicating via a first communication link to reduce interference at a second transmitter and a second receiver communicating via a second communication link includes estimating a t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034877 | OPERATION METHOD AND RADIO DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING POWER SWITCH OF RADIO BASED ON MOVING SPEED An operation method and a radio device for controlling power switch of radio based on moving speed are provided. The radio device comprises a speed estimator and an operator. The speed estimator is used for estimating the moving speed of the radio device, and the operat... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034880 | System and Method for Inter-Radio Access Technology Signal Measurement A multi-mode user equipment is provided. The multi-mode user equipment includes a processor configured to promote measurement of a signal strength of a microtechnology based communication during a portion of a macrotechnology based communication, wherein the portion is ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028586 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, SIMULATION APPARATUS, AND SIMULATION METHOD A simulation apparatus according to the present invention performs propagation simulation regarding the radio wave quality of a base station radio wave in a specific area. The apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a plurality of mobile termina... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027116 | MULTICARRIER TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS Multicarrier techniques for wireless communications system are described. An apparatus may comprise a carrier management module to define a primary carrier for use by a multicarrier communications system to communicate control information, and a secondary carrier for us... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025982 | Microelectronic Device with Integrated Energy Source An apparatus including an electronic device having a plurality of substantially collocated components, the plurality of components including an antenna, an energy supply and an integrated circuit chip. The integrated circuit chip is electrically coupled to the antenna a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028585 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM A communication system to enable a communication between different places including: a transmitting section which transmits information from a first place in order to detect whether a communication partner is present at a second place; a detection section which receives... | 02/02/2012 |
