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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7058037 | Radio frequency transmitting device of mobile radio communication base station system in code division multiple access system Disclosed is an RF transmitting device of a mobile radio communication base station system in a CDMA system capable of digital-modulating baseband signals which are converted into band spread signals by using the same path which three frequency assignment frequency ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054126 | System and method for improving the accuracy of time of arrival measurements in a wireless ad-hoc communications network A system and method for improved Time Of Arrival (TOA) distance measurements between nodes of a wireless ad-hoc network. Specifically, the present invention is a system and method of distance estimation using square-root raised-cosine pulse shaping and chip matched ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054275 | Method and apparatus for determining reverse data rate in mobile communication system There is provided a reverse data rate determining method in a mobile communication system for high data rate transmission such as an HDR system. An AN within a cell calculates the total load of a reverse link by measuring the total energy of the reverse link from AT... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046962 | System and method for improving the quality of range measurement based upon historical data A system and method for applying an algorithm to distance measurements between nodes in an ad-hoc communications network. The algorithm is located at an individual node of the ad-hoc network and processes collected data via a multi-path filter to ensure that range m... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046798 | System and method for subliminal time domain duplexing The present invention provides methods and apparatus for transmitting a data-bearing signal and a non-data-bearing signal. One embodiment comprises communicatively coupling a data-bearing signal during a first time period and communicatively coupling a non-data-bear... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046655 | Wireless communication method and system for minimizing interference by determining mobile station zone locations and potential conflicts between cell zones A wireless communication method and system for minimizing severe interference to one or more wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRUs). A plurality of non-overlapping zones (e.g., an inner zone and an outer zone) is defined for each cell of a wireless multi-cell commun... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046648 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for coordinating Node-B's and supporting enhanced uplink transmissions during handover A wireless communication method and apparatus for coordinating Node-Bs during handover for enhanced uplink (EU) transmission. In one embodiment, a radio network controller (RNC) initiates an inter-Node-B soft handover. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) establi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047011 | Synchronization in diversity handover To avoid signal quality degradation in resynchronization procedures, a base station and a mobile station do not adjust their timing simultaneously. Generally, a timer or a clock in each of the mobile and base stations is not adjusted at the same time. For example, t... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042867 | System and method for determining physical location of a node in a wireless network during an authentication check of the node A system and method for providing security to a wireless network by using a mobile node's location as a parameter for deciding if access is to be given to the node. The system and method employ access points, wireless routers and mobile nodes, each including at leas... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039430 | System and method for controlling an operational mode of a MAC layer in a broadband wireless access communication system A method for controlling operation modes of a medium access control layer by a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system including the mobile subscriber station and a serving base station providing service to the mobile subscriber... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039066 | Dynamic bandwidth assignment system and dynamic bandwidth assignment method capable of reducing cell transmission delay A dynamic bandwidth assignment system includes a network unit for carrying out cell slot assignment, and a network termination for transmitting cells to the network unit by means of cell slots assigned by the network unit. When the number of consecutive valid cells ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039024 | Method and arrangement for multiplexing several users to the communication channels of a TDMA system A method and associated hardware are disclosed for multiplexing communication connections in a telecommunication system based on time division multiple access. There is defined a burst structure that consists of symbols and fills a time slot at a radio interface. Th... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035069 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device Into an internal circuit to operate in a high-frequency band, there is incorporated a protective circuit of a multistage connection which is constructed to include a plurality of diode-connected transistors having a low parasitic capacity and free from a malfunction... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035612 | Antenna diversity communications device An antenna diversity communications device switches communications paths between a plurality of antennas to improve reception in a frequency diversity communications system. Antenna selection is done in response to measurement of the receiving condition of the selec... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035380 | Line sharing multipoint POTS splitter with intelligent termination The present invention provides for a system and method for blocking leakage signals and uncoupling connections in a communication system. A leakage signal (LS) blocking splitter employs a high-pass filter which effectively blocks the lower frequency leakage signal. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035246 | Maintaining a global time reference among a group of networked devices Synchronization is maintained among a plurality of network devices having local clocks that participate in a network. A first packet is broadcast from a first network device to other network devices that participate in the network. The first packet includes a global... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035234 | Optimized sleep mode operation The invention relates to operations in TDD (time division duplex) mode in third generation cellular telecommunication systems. According to the invention, the power level of midamble of the burst sent in the slot of the PICH channel has a predefined relation to the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031652 | Wireless local loop antenna A wireless local loop system is provided that includes a wireless base station that communicates with a subscriber station via a wireless link. The wireless link can carry a voice service, such as telephone calls, or a data service, such as internet browsing. The su... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031295 | System and method for minimizing guard time in a time division duplex communication system Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing capacity in a multi-user time division duplex (“TDD”) communication system such as a broadband wireless radio frequency communication system. More specifically the invention minimizes guard time in duplexed signals... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031294 | Baseband wireless network for isochronous communication A wireless communication network system apparatus which provides for isochronous data transfer between node devices of the network, which provides at least one master node device which manages the data transmission between the other node devices of the network, whic... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031293 | Method and system to provide increased data throughput in a wireless multi-hop network It is the object of this invention to provide a method of increasing the data throughput of a multi-hop wireless link. A method is provided which mitigates self-interference, without precluding the use of omni-directional transceivers. Distributed protocols for chan... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031286 | Method and an arrangement in a mobile radio system The invention relates to a mobile LAN including a number of hosts interconnected by a communication media. Routing means and a mobile station is connected to the LAN. A host on the LAN may perform a packet data communication with an external host via the routing mea... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030714 | Method and apparatus to match output impedance of combined outphasing power amplifiers Briefly, an apparatus having a first capacitor-inductor-capacitor impedance converter operably coupled to a second capacitor-inductor-capacitor impedance converter. The first and second capacitor-inductor-capacitor impedance converter may combine a first and second ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031749 | Software portable telephone Received signal inputted from an antenna 1 is fed via a received signal mixer 2 and an A/D converter 3 to a demodulator 4. The demodulator 4 is operated according to software down-loaded in a software memory 5 from a program... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031334 | Method and system for realising a fast control channel in a cellular radio network Signalling information is conveyed from a transmitting device (101) to a receiving device (102) in a cellular radio network where user data transmission takes place on a traffic channel in discrete transmission bursts (111–120; 211–220; 310–31... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031371 | CDMA/TDMA communication method and apparatus for wireless communication using cyclic spreading codes A communication system (20) uses TDMA techniques to distinguish intended recipients of a communication signal (26) from one another, and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) techniques to encode and distinguish diverse parallel substreams (70, 74 | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023798 | Adaptive call admission control for use in a wireless communication system The invention relates to communication systems and to systems and methods for implementing adaptive call admission control (CAC) in such systems. Adaptive call admission control can determine what CPE to base station calls (connections) are allowed at any given time... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023378 | Self-calibrating wideband phase continuous synthesizer and associated methods The synthesizer and method provide a relatively wideband swept frequency signal and include generating a first swept frequency signal with a first generator, and successively switching between different frequency signals with a second generator. Such switching creat... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024178 | Short message delivery system A short message delivery system has: mobile terminal devices each having a function of generating and receiving a short message; ground facilities each including a radio station connected to a mobile terminal device by radio means; and a short message center for rec... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023835 | Synchronization of timing advance and deviation A system and method for reducing the latency from timing deviation (TD) measurement to time advance (TA) adjustment. The invention uses a deterministic procedure to coordinate time advance (TA) commands and timing deviation (TD) measurements so that failed transmiss... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020229 | Phase-locked loop A phase-locked loop is described and has a phase detector that provides at its output per clock cycle a current pulse whose pulse duration is a measure of a phase difference between an input signal and an output signal of the phase-locked loop. A loop filter is conn... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020488 | Communications unit, system and methods for providing multiple access to a wireless transceiver The present invention addresses the above need by providing a communications unit comprising a first wireless transceiver port operable to communicate with a first wireless transceiver operable to conduct wireless communications with a wireless base station; and a f... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020487 | Portable telephone GPS and bluetooth integrated compound terminal and controlling method therefor A terminal device is provided for realizing exclusive control of the portable telephone, GPS and Bluetooth integrated terminal. The terminal device includes a terminal management control device(20) which in case of detecting all of the portable telephone term... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020151 | Flow control of a spread spectrum multiuser channel Packet data from multiple types of data sources is stored. The data sources have reroutable and non-reroutable data. The multiple types of data sources flow into a multiuser channel in a wireless spread spectrum code division multiple access communication system. A ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020118 | System and method for activation of a wireless module A wireless module system and method for activation is provided which includes, in one embodiment a wireless module including a complete electronic serial number and a preliminary internet protocol address. A wireless module account is established with an activation ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020071 | Methods and apparatus for wireless communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing Methods and apparatus for wireless communication in systems such as omni-beam and narrow-beam fixed wireless loop (FWL) systems. In a first technique in accordance with the invention, referred to as code division duplex (CDD) time-slotted CDMA, uplink and downlink p... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016306 | System and method for performing multiple network routing and provisioning in overlapping wireless deployments A system and method for transmitting data in a wireless network is provided. Routing table information includes a system weight associated with each available node. An optimal node is selected based at least in part on the system weight, quality of service requireme... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013480 | Gateway power synchronization A system for receiving network video includes a remote control with a power control input. A video receiver, controlled by the remote control, powers up or powers down based on a control signal indicating activation of the power control input. The video receiver rec... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006838 | System and method for locating sources of unknown wireless radio signals A system and method for determining the location of a source (target device) of a wireless radio signal of an unknown or arbitrary type for which a signal correlator is not known or available. The target device's signal is received at a plurality of known locations ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006476 | Communication apparatus and communication rate selecting method thereof A communication apparatus is provided, which is capable of selecting the communication rate at high speeds with increased reliability along with a communication rate selecting method for use therein. An TCH number in this station detecting means 21 is provide... | 02/28/2006 |
