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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189521 | Mobile station, base station, and method A disclosed mobile station is designed to send or receive at least a control channel using a given frequency in a first operating mode and to tune to a frequency different from the given frequency and perform a neighboring cell search in a second operating mode. The... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189524 | Method for cell selection in a radio access network A method for cell selection in a radio access network covering a geographical area divided into a plurality of cells, the method comprising: searching for a cell on a frequency; checking to see if the cell is a barred cell; and conditional on identifying the cell as... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189522 | Communicating system information in a wireless communication network An apparatus and method for communicating system information in a wireless communication network. A first step 200 includes defining unicast threshold parameter(s). A next step 201 includes receiving a request for system information. A next step 202... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189523 | Method and apparatus for managing the assignment of radio resources of a radio communications network A method of managing radio resources of a radio communications network, includes: upon receiving a new service request for a service to be provided, assessing whether there are radio resources of a first set, adapted to and available for satisfying the request, and:... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189519 | Channel assignment apparatus and channel assignment method The logical channels are made to include a logical channel for control and a logical channel for data transmission, the radio physical channel are made to be commonly used for a plurality of logical channels, and one logical channel is made to have a correspondence ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189520 | Apparatus and method for preamble pseudo noise code allocation in broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and a method for preamble pseudo noise code allocation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes defining an inherent index for each FA, allocating a preamble PN index to base stations using a reference FA index, def... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189526 | Method and system for shared communication medium in wireless communication systems Performing distributed contention-free communication channel reservation for wireless communication, is disclosed. One implementation involves providing access to a shared communication channel in a wireless network including multiple wireless stations, by performin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189517 | Broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network A method, apparatus and computer program product for transmitting broadcast/multicast data in a wireless network, is presented. The network includes either a plurality of multi-radio nodes, or a plurality of single-radio nodes, or a mix of multi-radio and single-rad... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189518 | Systems and methods for using a format of an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator A method for using a format of an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator (CQI) is described. The uplink control channel is provided in a first format. The uplink control channel in the first format carries either the CQI or acknowledgment/non... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189514 | Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The inventive method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a plurality of CPEs to communicate their bandwidth request messages to res... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189527 | Apparatus and method for allocating resources in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access mobile communication system A method for receiving resources allocated from a base station by a terminal in an OFDMA mobile communication system. The method includes receiving, for a data channel, a number of first components, which indicates an amount of resources used with a first resource a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189516 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving packet data control channel in an OFDMA wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet data control channel in an OFDMA wireless communication system are provided. The method includes dividing control information for user data transmitted during a specific frame into a packet data control channel to be ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189515 | Method and apparatus for improving radio spectrum usage and decreasing user data delay when providing packet PSI status A method provides for operating a wireless communication system having packet data capabilities, and includes steps of: (a) sending a message from a mobile station to a network on a same physical channel that is used to transmit packet data, the message specifying i... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189525 | Solution for INE/HO LB bottle neck A system and method for reducing an initial network entry and/or handover (INE/HO) Link Budget (LB) Bottleneck in a communications network, for example, a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network described in the IEEE 802.16 specification, is ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184582 | Quality of service for WLAN and bluetooth combinations A hybrid device (100) includes both a IEEE-802.11e type WLAN client station (QAP) (102) and a BLUETOOTH piconet unit (104) interconnected such that the BLUETOOTH transmissions are scheduled to occur according to a transmission opportunity (TXOP)... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184579 | ACK/NAK repetition schemes in wireless networks ACK/NAK repetition may be necessary to provide sufficient coverage for cell edge UEs. For a coverage limited UE, a NodeB may inform the UE that ACK/NAK repetition is needed. Such information can be explicitly signaled to the UE via DL control channels or conveyed th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184581 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control information and packet data in downlink Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting control information and packet data. The method includes generating control channels which transmit the control information; generating control indication channel which indicates whether the control channels are t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184580 | Data packet communication scheduling in a communication system A communication device has a plurality of concurrently operating transceiver systems, each operating in a respectively different one of a plurality of communication systems. Operation of the transceiver systems is coordinated by receiving a plurality of requests fro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184583 | Virtually centralized uplink scheduling A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184577 | Method and apparatus for configuring a transport block size in a wireless communications system A method of setting a transport block size for a user equipment in a wireless communications system includes providing a combination table for being looked up to generate a parameter value according to a combination of a modulation scheme and a number of channelizat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184578 | Dynamic inter-cell channel sharing A mechanism to share channels between cells dynamically and without simultaneous allocation of the same channel by more than one access point achieved by a method for a dynamic inter-cell channel sharing for a first access point in a radio access network, the first ... | 05/22/2012 |
| RE43383 | Method for sharing hybrid resources in a wireless independent network, a station for the method, and a data format for the method and the station In a system for sharing hybrid resources in an independent network, each one of a plurality of stations preferably employs a sharing authority transferring protocol that allows the network control function to be moved from station to station depending on the network... | 05/15/2012 |
| RE43382 | Method of addressing messages and communications systems A method of and apparatus for establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to establish communications without collision between the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179852 | Base station, subordinated station and transmission method thereof A base station (BS), a subordinated station (SS) and the transmission methods thereof for use in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) network are provided. The BS stores resource allocation information about the MIMO network and an SS list, and generate a super frame a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179851 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and communication apparatus A mobile station-side acquirer acquires the MTU value notified by a base station-side notifier and stores the acquired MTU value in a mobile station-side memory. A mobile station-side transmitter transmits data to a destination with the data size set to be smaller t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179844 | Channel aware multiple user MIMO scheme unified with single user closed loop MIMO A base station is capable of unifying a single-user MIMO scheme with a multi-user MIMO scheme by receiving a Rank-1 CQI values from one or more subscriber stations. The base station also receives preceding vectors from the subscriber stations, and then determines wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179847 | Interactive white list prompting to share content and services associated with a femtocell System(s) and method(s) provide access management to femtocell service through access control list(s) (e.g., white list(s)). A white list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes or tokens, and also can include additional fields for femto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179848 | Video multicast using relay devices defined by a channel quality parameter hierarchy Improved distribution of video information in an infrastructure-based wireless network is provided. A wireless channel condition between the video server node and each of the plurality of receiver nodes is determined. Receiver nodes are assigned into one of a first ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179849 | Mapping of distributed resource block indices to physical resource blocks An apparatus for communication using a wireless communication network includes an interleaver and a transceiver. The interleaver co-exists with a localized transmission arrangement if the localized transmission arrangement is present and interleaves data packets for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179846 | DPI-driven bearer termination for short-lived applications Based on application information received from a DPI device, a downstream device, such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC), optimally implements a dormancy timer policy for short-lived applications, such as email and MMS. In particular, the RNC may initially use a l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179843 | Distributed scheduling method for multi-antenna wireless system A channel allocation system for a beam-forming wireless network selects receivers to enroll in communication from a pool of candidate receivers, by off-loading a determination of the effects of adding each candidate receiver to the candidate receiver itself. In one ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179853 | Method of scheduling data transmission in a radio network In a method and apparatus for scheduling users in radio network system, the scheduling priority for each user of a group of users is made dependent on the unusable time for each user. Scheduling of the users is performed in accordance with the determined scheduling ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179854 | Allocating base stations to location areas in cellular telecommunications networks A method is provided of allocating a location area identifier to a cellular base station for wireless communications. The method comprises the following steps. Information is received of geographic location of a base station. For each of a plurality of location area... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179845 | Antenna-aware method for transmitting packets in a wireless communication network A method for transmitting packets in a wireless communication network includes taking into consideration an antenna mode prior to transmission. The method includes determining a transmit antenna mode for a transmission between the node and at least one other node; w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179850 | Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, and radio network controller capable of changing communication states A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175046 | Notification of incumbent users in dynamic spectrum access wireless systems A wireless system and method including a medium access control (MAC) layer adapted to notify a wireless station of the presence or absence of an incumbent wireless are described. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175047 | Data transmission method in wireless mesh network and A-MSDU format Provided are a method for transmitting data in wireless mesh networks and A-MSDU format for the method. In the method, in case the receiving MPs of all of the plural MSDUs to be transmitted are identical, a transmitting MP generates an A-MSDU using the plural MSDUs ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175048 | Multi-hop wireless communication system A multi-hop wireless communication system which synchronizes a time signal generated by a timer device included in each of the wireless terminals and sets a different active timing to a wireless terminal connected to each of a plurality of multi-hop routes. The wire... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175045 | Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink feedback data in a broadband wireless mobile communication system An apparatus and a method for transmitting uplink feedback data in a broadband wireless mobile communication are provided. The method comprises dividing tiles used as a feedback channel into a preset number of groups, selecting one group among the preset number of g... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175044 | Wireless communication system and wireless communication method The present invention is a wireless communication system having a mobile station and a wireless base station, wherein the wireless base station further having a scheduling processing unit which divides system bandwidth into a plurality of wireless resource blocks in... | 05/08/2012 |
