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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129466 | Evaluation Device and Method for Providing a Transceiver System with Performance Information Thereof An evaluation device is adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device inclu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108180 | RADIO BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD For each resource block assigned to radio terminal (2A), radio base station (1A) measures the amount of interference the resource blocks receive from the communication from radio terminal (2B) to radio base station (1B) and the communication ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108179 | COEXISTENCE OF HETEROGENEOUS SECONDARY NETWORKS Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to provide for wireless resource sharing between heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence in a TV band white space. An example embodiment of the invention includes a method, comprisin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120052901 | COMBINED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AND COMBINED CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Embodiments of methods and apparatus for estimating a channel state information (CSI) and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a frame; determining a combined CSI and a combined CQI of the frame; and transmitting the CSI and the combined CQI are disclosed. Additional va... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120040624 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CHANNEL STATE The present invention proposes a device and method for detecting the channel state. The detecting device first monitors a channel within a predetermined duration so as to receive a plurality of signals transmitted on the channel, and then determines whether part of the ... | 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 |
| 20120040623 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING CORRESPONDING FUNCTIONS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES An exemplary method for triggering a corresponding function of an electronic device and a system using the same are provided. The method includes detecting radio signals between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, generating a radio signal quality ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120003940 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROL PROGRAM OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD In order to settle a problem of suppressing degradation of a throughput of a communication system, a communication device is provided with a reception means which receives and accumulates a first datum which a first device transmits addressing a second device and a seco... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110319032 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CONTROL IDLE-MODE RADIO MEASUREMENTS An apparatus and method for controlling idle mode radio measurements comprising: determining if a radio measurement is less than a radio threshold; determining a time duration in which the radio measurement is less than the radio threshold; determining if the time durat... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319033 | Evaluation Device and Method for Providing a Transceiver System with Performance Information Thereof An evaluation device is adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device inclu... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319080 | METHOD OF CELL RESELECTION AND CELLULAR RADIO TERMINAL A method of cell reselection and a cellular radio terminal are provided. A method of cell reselection comprises measuring, while a mobile station is camped on a network cell, signals of neighboring network cells irrespective of a signal strength and a signal quality of ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110312268 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING OVERLOAD INDICATOR REPORT The present invention discloses a method and system for triggering OI report. The method includes: a first terminal performing area division for its own coverage area to obtain layers of the coverage area of the first terminal; the first terminal determining a layer, in... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312282 | Assessing Interference Environment for Wireless Communication Devices Disclosed is a device and method to automate the process of measuring RF noise, correlating measured noise with known sources, and making adjustments to the noise-measuring and reporting process. A wireless communication device is coupled to equipment at a fixed locatio... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110306307 | METHOD FOR SITE APPRAISAL FOR THE OPERATION OF A DATA RADIO RECEIVER, PARTICULARLY FOR THE CAPTURE OF CONSUMPTION DATA The suitability of a fixed or current mobile operating location for the receiver (19) in a data memory (13, 15) for picking up the consumption data (12) transmitted by a data radio channel in a wireless local data capture system (11) from con... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110269392 | Method of Performing Feedback Load Reduction and Related Communication Device A method of performing feedback load reduction for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises measuring a signal from the network to get Channel State Information (CSI); comparing the measured CSI with at least one threshold an... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110263211 | Apparatus and Method for Frequency-Selective Occupancy Detection An apparatus for frequency-selective occupancy detection of a channel in a frequency band includes a detector for detecting a receive spectrum in the frequency band, a provider for providing node frequencies, a determiner for determining node level values, a determiner ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110250851 | SIMULATED DEGRADATION OF SNR IN DECODED DIGITAL AUDIO CORRELATED TO WIRELESS LINK BIT-ERROR RATE Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, apparatus and method for an audible indicator of a quality of a received digital radio transmission. After receiving a digital radio transmission in a digital radio receiver, the quality of the received digital radi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244802 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK ABOUT A QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A DEVICE AND A REMOTE CONTROL Systems, devices and methods provide feedback about the quality of communication between a device and a remote control. A wireless signal is sent between a controlled device and the remote control. The quality of the signal can be measured and reported to a user, instal... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110217936 | Method and Apparatus to Improve Closed Loop Transmit Diversity Modes Performance via Interference Suppression in a WCDMA Network Equipped with a RAKE Receiver A method for processing signals in a wireless communication system includes determining at a receiver, a maximum one of a plurality of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) values for a received wireless signal. The plurality of SINR values may be calculated us... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212694 | Satellite-Band Spectrum Utilization For Reduced Or Minimum Interference A first and/or a second communications system may provide communications service over a geographic area. A method of operating the first and/or the second communications systems may include generating a measure of aggregate interference reaching a satellite of the secon... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110207477 | Methods and Nodes in a Wireless Communication Network A first network node and method in the first network node in a wireless communication network for enabling quality estimation of a measurement that is time based. The method comprises performing a timing measurement based on a signal received from a second network node.... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110183702 | Methods of determining uplink target signal-to-interfence-and-noise ratios and systems thereof Example embodiments are directed to a method of determining an uplink target signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). In one embodiment, the method includes determining the uplink target SINR for a user equipment (UE) based on a downlink signal-to-interference rat... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110171960 | INTELLIGENT HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS HANDOFF Provided are methods and systems of managing vertical handoffs in a wireless communication network. Embodiments include analyzing wireless device usage to determine usage patterns, which may include locations and times at which the wireless device is typically accessing... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110165846 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING NON-UNIFORM CHANNEL QUANTIZATION FOR A FEEDBACK-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A mobile device estimates channel state information (CSI) comprising, for example, CQI and/or SNR, for a downlink channel. The estimated CSI is non-uniformly quantized and transmitted to the base station over a finite-rate feedback channel. Different portions of the est... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110159913 | UPLINK POWER CONTROL IN WIRELESS NETWORKS Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, one or more interference over thermal noise (IoT) values may be measured for one or more frequency partitions or a sounding area, or combinations thereof, and a difference between a current IoT value and a previous Io... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110151800 | Delay, Gain and Phase Estimation for Measurement Receivers Phase and gain of a transmit signal are measured at a transmitter by determining a first time delay having a first resolution at a measurement receiver between a reference signal from which the transmit signal is generated and a measured signal derived from the transmit... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151802 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An apparatus and a method for estimating a channel in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a channel estimation unit for determining a channel estimation value using a channel power for each of a plurality of fingers, and a noise estimation... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151799 | Apparatus And Method For Detecting Communication Interference Location determination signals are received and a location of interest is determined from the location determination signals. A communication service is established and synchronized with a known, valid base station via a first communication channel. A value of a signal ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151801 | METHOD FOR SPECTRUM NOISE DETECTION A method for spectrum noise detection is provided. Means and a total mean of spectrum blocks of a frequency-domain signal are calculated. Whether the means are greater than a cut-off threshold is checked. If all the means are greater than the cut-off threshold, whether ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110143681 | Radio Channel Control Method And Receiving Apparatus A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, measur... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143792 | Methods, System, and Computer Program Product for Optimizing Signal Quality of a Composite Received Signal Signal quality of a composite received signal in a radio communication network is optimized by adjusting a phase offset between received and/or transmitted signals based on signal quality parameters of the received and/or transmitted signals. The phase offset is adjuste... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110124291 | METHOD FOR QUIETING AND SENSING IN A SECONDARY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A method of retaining channel use by a secondary system is described. A secondary channel used during periods of normal communication between a secondary transmitter and receiver is split into sub-bands for use during a quiet period containing quiet phases. During the q... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110117859 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A first wireless communication device (1) performs wireless communication with a second wireless communication device (2) which is connected via a wireless network. More specifically, the first wireless communication device (1) includes a wireless c... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110105171 | REPORTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION The present invention relates to a method of transmitting channel quality data for channels in a wireless communication system, and to a corresponding receiver and transmitter. The method comprises determining a plurality of channel quality indicators for a correspondin... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105047 | DETERMINATION OF ANTENNA NOISE TEMPERATURE FOR HANDHELD WIRELESS DEVICES Antenna noise temperature is determined for a handheld wireless communication device which typically includes a radio, e.g. having a wireless transceiver and associated circuitry connected thereto, and an antenna connected to the radio. The method includes measuring an ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110092168 | Calibration of a communications transmitter to optimize DC offset rejection and image rejection A method and apparatus is disclosed to optimize one or more operational parameters of a communications transmitter to reduce undesirable noise and/or interference embedded within a transmitted communications signal resulting from one or more imperfections. A baseband pr... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110081871 | CHANNEL-DEPENDENT SCHEDULING AND LINK ADAPTATION A mobile terminal measures interference over multiple measurement periods and generates interference probability data based on the statistical distribution of the interference measured. The interference probability data may describe, for example, the probability of each... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110070842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BAND TRANSFER IN MULTIBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus for transferring to a second communication band and returning to an original communication band according to a channel state in a multiband communication system are provided. The method includes communicating with a peer device in a first band, de... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110065394 | Traffic constraints in a mmWAVE wireless network A network controller may schedule directional communications between two devices in its own network in such a way as to avoid potential interference from anticipated transmissions from another device. In some instances, the network controller may be one of the two devic... | 03/17/2011 |
