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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8023457 | Feedback reduction for MIMO precoded system by exploiting channel correlation In a closed-loop wireless communication system, a codebook-based precoding feedback compression mechanism is provided to remove redundancy from the precoding feedback that is caused by channel correlation in time and frequency. Redundancy due to temporal correlation... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023459 | Method and apparatus for staggered zone resource allocation in orthogonal frequency division multiple access system A method for staggered zone resource allocation in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system having a cluster includes: dividing a frequency resource of the OFDMA system into a plurality of time zones along a time axis; determining at least two... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023460 | Radio base station and user common data transmission method A radio base station transmits user common data provided from a user common data control apparatus connected to a communication network to a plurality of mobile stations by radio. The radio base station includes a frame loss detection unit configured to detect loss ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023461 | Method and apparatus for sharing uplink state flag (USF) with multiple uplink temporary block flows (TBFs) A method and an apparatus are described for increasing the flexibility of uplink resource allocation for a mobile station (MS) (100), that is backwards compatible with earlier standards that provide only a single data flow per MS. The method includes steps of... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023462 | Graph-based method for dynamic fractional frequency reuse A method allocates frequency subchannels in an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) network including a set of base stations and a set of mobile stations for each base station. A graph of nodes and edges is constructed, in which the nodes represent ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018895 | Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink control information on shared channels Mobile station applications (419) may include an SI unit (409) for piggy backing SI onto data stored in data buffer (421) and also for adding an indicator to the SI information. The scheduling information and/or incremental control information (... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018894 | Method and apparatus for implementing a blind seamless channel change A method and apparatus for implementing a blind seamless channel change (BSCC) when at least one of a plurality of wireless communication devices is jammed on a current communication channel includes the first wireless communication device transmitting a BSCC messag... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018896 | Uplink and downlink channel configuration method in radio communication system A disclosed downlink channel configuration method in a radio communication system includes a step of including a broadcast channel, a paging channel, and a downlink shared channel as transport channels; a step of including as a physical channel a physical downlink s... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018898 | Base station and mobile station One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station wherein either resource blocks resulting from division of a system bandwidth into blocks of consecutive frequency subcarriers or distributed type resource blocks consisting of frequency subcarriers discre... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018893 | Method and apparatus for relay facilitated communications Communications sourced by a remote unit (14) that is already within reception range of a base site (10) can nevertheless be further facilitated through allocation of one or more relay resources (15, 16). Such relay resources, properly employed, ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018897 | Balancing capacity between link directions using variable feedback rates A method for communication includes providing a first transceiver configured to communicate with a second transceiver over a bi-directional link having a first aggregation of frequencies that are assigned to carry first communication traffic in a first link directio... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014353 | Method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing Eigen beamforming with fixed rates for closed loop WLAN A method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing Eigen beamforming with fixed rates for a closed loop WLAN is provided. Aspects of the method for communicating information in a communication system may comprise transmitting data via a plurality of radio ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014349 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signal in a communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving signals in a communication system. A base station allocates a quasi-dedicated control channel (QDCCH) to a first mobile station (MS), and allocates the QDCCH allocated to the first MS, to a second MS for... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014350 | Method and equipment for data transmission by ad-hoc network The invention relates to a method of data transmission by an ad-hoc network of mobile communication equipment (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d), from at least one source equipment (12) to at least one collection term... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014348 | Radio access network system, radio access method, and control apparatus The object of the present invention is to provide a radio access network system which can adapt to an environment in each network domain, and can carry out the priority transmission control of the IP packets in consideration of traffic requirements. The control appa... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014351 | Method and apparatus for receiving system information from base station in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for receiving system information from a Base Station (BS) in a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system are provided, in which it is determined whether there is buffered system information in a buffer, if current system information... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014352 | Adaptive transport format uplink signaling for data-non-associated feedback control signals One or more dynamically selected signaling bits are added in a downlink from a base station to user equipment (UE) so that the UE can use an adaptive “symbol space” for uplink feedback (CQI/HARQ) signaling and know from the extra added downlink signaling bits an... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009620 | Variable header types for persistent resource allocation in a wireless network Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless receiver configured to receive a persistent resource allocation, the persistent resource allocation providing a periodically recurring resource,... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009619 | Server-side wireless communications link support for mobile handheld devices A server-based method for implementing a communications link. The method includes receiving via a communications network a request for a communications link from a client communications component executing on a handheld device and establishing a wireless communicati... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009621 | Radio communication system, method and base station with controlled transmission rate The radio terminal 10 includes a communication unit 11 configured to transmit a happy bit to the base station. The base station 100 includes: a comparison unit 126 configured to compare a priority class assigned to a control target termin... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009624 | Method for fractional frquency reuse with ordering scheme to increase capacity of OFDM systems Disclosed herein is a method for fractional frequency reuse with ordering scheme (FFRO) to increase capacity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems while reducing interference due to the use of a common sub-channel set. Each cell includes a com... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009622 | Method and apparatus for improved single cell adaption due to change in environment A communication method for use in a wireless communications network is proposed, said method comprising the steps of—monitoring at least one property representative of the channel variability in time and/or frequency, for each of at least two channels in the cell,... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009623 | Base station, user apparatus and method for use of multiple sizes of resource blocks A base station includes a scheduler at least determining a resource block assigned to a data channel, a transmitted signal generation unit generating a signal to transmit the data channel in accordance with scheduling information supplied from the scheduler, a trans... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005040 | RLC/MAC protocol In the LAPDm a short message service is implemented by pre-emption of every second signalling message when there is a short message to be sent. Same pre-emption mechanism is also needed when the RLC/MAC protocol is used on the data link layer instead of the LAPDm. T... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005043 | Method and apparatus for scheduling downlink packets in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for scheduling downlink packets in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a BS prioritizes MSs, while accounting for types of services provided to the MSs, generates one single-user candidate transmission format and M multi-user ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005041 | Wireless communication system, apparatus for supporting data flow and method therefor An apparatus for use in allocating resource in a wireless communication system, where the apparatus comprises mapping logic arranged to map one or more services to individual radio bearers of a plurality of radio bearers; reporting logic arranged to indicate buffer ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005044 | Apparatus and method for transmitting service guide in broadband wireless access system A method and apparatus for receiving a service guide for a user terminal in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes transmitting, by the user terminal, a service guide request message to a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) server, and receiving... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005045 | Method for operating radio communication system, including sending station and receiving station thereof In a radio communication system, at least a first frequency band is subdivided into C radio resource units which are allocable for radio transmissions between radio stations and terminals. Each radio resource unit has at least two adjacent subcarriers, for allocatio... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005042 | Method and apparatus for high rate packet data transmission In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station tra... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000289 | Mobile communication system, base station, radio network controller, and resource allocation control method used therefor A mobile communication system is provided which is capable of improving efficiency of use of allocated codes and allocated power of an HS-PDSCH to improve a throughput of the HS-PDSCH. A resource allocation update unit is connected to an RNC functional unit and a ba... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000294 | Method for connecting mobile station to base station, mobile station, base station, multi-carrier mobile communication system, and random access channel mapping method As a random access channel (RACH), two types of RACHs, a synchronous RACH and an asynchronous RACH are prepared, condition of a mobile station is classified depending on whether there is temporal synchronization in the mobile station and whether a resource is alloca... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000295 | Random access method and radio communication terminal device There are disclosed a random access method for establishing an individual channel between a radio communication terminal device and a base station device in a short time and a radio communication terminal device executing the random access method. In this device, in... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000293 | Method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access A method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, nodes will return null subspace information along with their channel subspace information. The null subspace is similar to the ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000292 | Multimedia broadcast multicast service channel mapping and multiplexing A system is provided for mapping multimedia broadcast multicast services. The system includes one or more processors programmed to map a plurality of multicast transport channels (MCHs) to a plurality of multicast/broadcast single frequency networks (MBSFNs) such th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000290 | Wireless LAN device having terminal function, wireless LAN device having base station function, and wireless network having the wireless LAN device In a wireless network including a wireless LAN device having a base station function compatible with the IEEE 802.11e standard and a wireless LAN device having a terminal function compatible with the standard, a band-guaranteed data reception check timer 104... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000291 | Wireless communication method of selecting an enhanced uplink transport format combination by setting a scheduling grant payload to the highest payload that can be transmitted The present invention is related to a method of selecting an enhanced uplink (EU) transport format combination (E-TFC). A scheduling grant payload (SGP) is set to the highest payload that may be transmitted. The SGP is calculated as follows: | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995526 | Apparatus and method for medium access control in wireless communication networks A method includes identifying a white space at a first wireless node and selecting a channel in the identified white space. The white space includes at least one frequency or frequency band not in use (like a licensed frequency or frequency band). The method also in... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995527 | Multiple access wireless communications system using a multi-sector configuration Power control methods and apparatus for use in a sectorized cell of an OFDM communications system are described. Each sector of a cell uses the same frequencies and transmission times and is synchronized with the other sectors in the cell in terms of tone frequencie... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995524 | Wireless communication system and method A method for processing wireless data in a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network including a plurality of intermediary nodes and a plurality of destination devices. The method includes determining at least one transmission path to each o... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995528 | Precoding with multi-user codebooks A cellular system utilizes different codebooks of precoding vectors for different receivers within a particular cell. A set of different codebooks is designed and then used by a base station as a basis to allocate to various receivers in a dynamic fashion. In at lea... | 08/09/2011 |
