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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7499420 | Apparatus and method for removing signal interference in a local radio communication device mounted in a mobile terminal Disclosed is a method for removing signal interference in a local radio communication device mounted in a mobile terminal. The method comprises receiving information on a channel in use from the mobile terminal in session; determining based on the received channel i... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7453837 | Trunking system for CDMA wireless communication Methods and systems for implementing trunking techniques in CDMA systems for handling group calls and push-to-talk services. ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444157 | Method and apparatus for beam selection in a smart antenna system A method of beam selection in a smart antenna system is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of uplink beams by a plurality of receivers, each corresponding with one of the plurality of uplink beams. Each uplink beam includes signals transmitted by a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436878 | Method and apparatus for efficient carrier bin search for a composite spreading code A matched filter decorrelator is described for efficiently performing a carrier frequency search while despreading a P/N long code constructed from two or more constituent codes such as codes A, B, C. The received signal is phase rotated into a frequency bin and par... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436793 | System and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure A system and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure in a wireless network includes a forward receiver that monitors a wireless forward link for forward data that is transmitted over the wireless forward link by a forward transmitter.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433430 | Wireless communications device providing enhanced block equalization and related methods A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver receiving signals having alternating known and unknown symbol portions over a channel, and a demodulator systolic array. The demodulator systolic array may include a channel estimation module generatin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433391 | Spread-spectrum receiver with fast M-sequence transform A receiving system dynamically searches a communications band for transmissions of messages having the same nominal communications parameters, including the use of the same spreading code, but having potentially different specific frequencies and code-phases. The re... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430194 | Method and apparatus for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network A method and apparatus are provided for communication among many coordinator-based wireless networks connected together through a wired backbone network using wired/wireless connecting devices. According to the method and apparatus, communication is allowed between ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428420 | Quick paging method in a shadow area A quick paging method for improving a standby time of a mobile terminal in a shadow area or a hand off region where the mobile terminal receives a pilot signal from a base station over a pilot channel and a quick paging signal from the base station over a quick pagi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423988 | Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. A communications system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to communicate with ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420956 | Distributed storage and aggregation of multimedia information via a broadband access gateway A system and method for the aggregation of multimedia information storage via a broadband access gateway is disclosed. Information about storage resources accessible to a broadband access gateway may be collected and used in selecting storage capacity used for stori... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420946 | Apparatus and method for indicating a base station in a mobile station provided in a CDMA communication system A receiver provided in a mobile station communicating with at least two different types of base stations. In the receiver of the mobile station, a controller generates frequency channel control data for base stations at base station search times, analyzes signals re... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420944 | Method of forming directional wireless networks using in-band channels The present invention is directed to a method of forming a mobile network using Phased Array Antennas. Mobile nodes search for nodes with which to form a network by either transmitting low level announcement signals on a wide spoiled beam directional antenna at prog... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415046 | Method, apparatus and computer programs for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing A method, apparatus and computer program for multiplexing a number of second channels, in particular logical channels, in accordance with the UMTS protocol architecture for the air interface, onto a first channel, in particular a transport channel, in accordance wit... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403509 | Receiver for chip-interleaved block-spread multi-user communication systems Techniques are described for performing block equalization on a received wireless communication signal formed according to interleaved chips generated from sub-blocks of symbols. For example, a one-step block equalization process is described which produces estimate... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403583 | System and method for predictive synchronization for locating interleaving frames and demodulation training sequences A system and method for using Psuedo-Noise (PN) phase to determine frame start of a data frame is provided. The system and method includes at least two PN component codes, wherein the at least two PN component codes are relatively prime. A received PN composite enco... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397785 | Method for enhancing fairness and performance in a multihop ad hoc network and corresponding system A method for enhancing the fairness and performance in a multihop ad hoc network, the method usually including providing contention synchronization information regarding a transmission between nodes of the network, wherein the information is routinely provided to no... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397773 | GSM cell broadcast SMS message transmission in CDMA communication systems Techniques to send GSM CBS messages over a CDMA air interface. The encapsulation of a GSM CBS message in CDMA messages may be achieved using various schemes. An indication is provided at each of a number of pertinent layers to allow the terminals to determine whethe... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395086 | Mobile communication terminal capable of displaying communication mode In a mobile communication terminal connectable to a first base station using a first communication mode and a second base station using a second communication mode that is different from the first communication mode, a control message coming from an acquired one of ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391806 | Digital data exchange device in a CDMA system The invention relates to a device for exchanging digital data between several sources and at least one hub in a CDMA system, characterized in that it comprises a number n of digital transmission/reception circuits (1) installed in parallel, each circuit (1... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391712 | Method and system for forward-looking tone allocation Methods and systems for forward-looking tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a plurality of remote u... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391711 | Method and system for adaptive modulation Methods and systems for adaptive modulation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a plurality of remote units of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a plurality... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379445 | Platform noise mitigation in OFDM receivers Techniques and structures are presented for use in mitigating the effects of platform noise within a wireless device. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379435 | Determining broadcast message transmit times for a wireless device having a plurality of WLAN MAC addresses A method, a software product, and an apparatus to determine time offsets to use with a local synchronization clock in a wireless device that can act as a plurality of (virtual) APs, each having a different network identifier. The offsets provide for the wireless dev... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376095 | Apparatus and method for measuring a received signal to interference ratio in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for measuring an SIR in a CDMA mobile communication system. The SIRs and power of PICHs and the power of PDCHs are measured sequentially for a plurality of active set base stations. An active set base station having the highest signal strengt... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372895 | Method of and system for delay estimation with minimized finger allocation A signal-path delay-estimation method includes correlating a computed coarse delay profile of at least one detected signal path cluster with a waveform to yield a strongest correlated peak for each of the at least one detected signal path cluster. The method also in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372897 | Portable information communication terminal, program, and recording medium The number of times for averaging operation for averaging a correlation value of a received signal and a reference signal is properly controlled. When the correlation value is not averaged, since a lower limit value TH_A of a correlation level of a distribution of t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373161 | Method and arrangement for power control A method for setting a power control level (600) in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of obtaining (620) transmission information from a wireless subscriber unit, and modifying a power control level and/or a communication c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373160 | Method and device for indicating amounts of data in mobile networks A mobile communication device for use in a packet switched wireless communications network includes a display, which is able to indicate an amount of data remaining from a subscribed amount. This allows the user to see how much data he can send or receive, within a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372889 | Mobile station capable of and a method for generating chip patterns for transmission A mobile station that wirelessly transmits to a base station by DS-CDMA a signal spread by multiplying a spreading code includes a chip-pattern generating unit that generates a predetermined chip pattern by performing chip repetition for a predetermined number of re... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369577 | Code group acquisition procedure for a UMTS-FDD receiver Step 2 demodulation is conventionally performed using a secondary synchronization channel that correlates a received signal at a known time slot location against each of a plurality of sequences associated with the secondary synchronization code. The disclosed imple... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369601 | Code division multiple access receiver Processing of a received code division multiple access, CDMA, burst (405) when a spreading factor of the CDMA burst (405) has been changed from an allocated spreading factor (SF0) to a new spreading factor (SFn). The received burs... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369847 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Preferably, cells having the sam... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369534 | Reducing search time using known scrambling code offsets Techniques for reducing search time using known scrambling code offsets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of search results is generated by correlating a received signal with a synchronization sequence. The plurality of search results is reduced by remov... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369521 | Power control during retransmission The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling power in a network transmitted from a first station to a second station. The second station determines a power target value for a signal received from the first station and sends power control co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366132 | Loss tolerant transmission control protocol Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting or receiving data packets in a data block in a communication network with a transport protocol. In one example, a loss tolerant TCP protocol is used in which a maximum segment size (MSS) may be adapted to a minim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366272 | Method and device for transmitting packet data in mobile communication system There is provided a device and method for transmitting packet data in a mobile communication system. A sub-code generator generates a plurality of sub-codes with the same or different code rates for the input of a PLP (Physical Layer Packet) information bit stream. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366154 | Forward error correction scheme for high rate data exchange in a wireless system A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high dat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366226 | Pilot channel tracking method based on multipath barycenter tracking loop The present invention discloses a method for pilot channel tracking based on multipath channel barycenter tracking loop, comprises steps of evaluating multipath fading channel parameters, calculating the barycenter of a multipath energy window, and loop filtering an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366133 | Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II] A method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The method and system integrate adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for communication parameters related to multiple characteristics of wireless communication links, both for a single sende... | 04/29/2008 |