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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8442002 | Method for operating a multi-cell radio system and a multi-cell radio system For enhancing user throughput and coverage within a multi-cell radio system a method for operating a multi-cell radio system, especially an OFDMA-based radio system including a plurality of base stations, wherein different frequency reuse factors are used within dif... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442001 | Systems, methods and apparatus for facilitating handover control using resource reservation with frequency reuse Systems, methods and apparatus for facilitating handover control using resource reservation with frequency reuse are provided. In one embodiment, the method can include: transmitting scheduling information for the transmission of information on frequencies correspon... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8437304 | System and method for transmitting and receiving frequency resource information in a frequency overlay system A system and method for transmitting and receiving frequency allocation information based on identification information in a frequency overlay system are provided. The method includes transmitting a frame of a first Frequency Allocation (FA) to Mobile Stations (MSs)... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8432867 | Method and apparatus for receiving code transmissions over timeslots and antennas A plurality of antennas transmit a first spread spectrum signal having an associated code. The first spread spectrum signal is received at the wireless user. For each received first spread spectrum signal, a second spread spectrum signal is transmitted having an ass... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8422454 | Method of transmitting and receiving uplink data using transmission of profile indexes A device and method for exchanging a signal via a channel quality indicator channel (CQICH) between a base station and mobile station. The method includes: configuring periodic transmission times for the CQICH; receiving, from the mobile station, information indicat... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422453 | Communication systems A spectrum-assignment method for use in a wireless communication system, the system comprising at least first and second communication apparatuses each having a portion of communication spectrum pre-assigned to it for communication, the method comprising: on a dynam... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422455 | Enhanced control channel in multicarrier wireless networks A base station transmits downlink control information on a first carrier starting from the first symbol of a first subframe and provides first transmission format and scheduling information for first data packets to be transmitted on a first data channel of the firs... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8411637 | Method for dividing a subcarrier permutation zone and an information configuration system A method for dividing a subcarrier permutation zone in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access system and an information configuration system for dividing a subcarrier permutation zone in the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access system are disclose... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8400977 | Method for performing cell selection in a GSM/GPRS system A method of searching for a different network cell by a mobile station in a global system for mobile communication (GSM)/general packet ratio service (GPRS) system is provided. The method includes receiving from a serving cell an indication message including informa... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400978 | Method for multiplexing data and control information A method for multiplexing a data information stream, including a systematic symbol and a non-systematic symbol, and a control information stream of at least three types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping the data info... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8396035 | System and method for communications using time-frequency space enabled coordinated beam switching A system and method for communications using time-frequency space enabled coordinated beam switching are provided. A method for transmitting information includes selecting a beam from a set of beams, determining a set of users out of a plurality of users, the set of... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8391234 | Wireless communication system, mobile station, base station, and wireless communication method In a wireless communication system in which a base station, a mobile station, and a correspondent station are connected via a network, the base station includes a sounding-reference-signal arrangement control unit that causes sounding reference signals 5, 6, ... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8391232 | Method for transmitting control information in wireless communication systems When a plurality of terminals share the same resources in a wireless communication system, and when control information such as acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) information or scheduling information is transmitted, a method of efficiently performin... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8391233 | Method for mapping downlink dedicated pilots to resource elements in extended cyclic prefix frame structure A method for mapping downlink dedicated pilots to resource elements in an Extended Cyclic Prefix frame structure, applied in a long term evolution system, includes the following steps: the first downlink dedicated pilot of each port is mapped to the specific positio... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8385288 | Multi-channel SDMA Certain embodiments provide a method for scheduling packet transmissions in a multi-channel wireless communications system. The method generally includes requesting, from a plurality of wireless network nodes, an identification of channels available for communicatin... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8379589 | Node apparatus, node quantity adjustment method, and tangible machine-readable medium for a sensor network A node apparatus and an adjusting method of a quantity of nodes for a sensor network and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The sensor network comprises a plurality of groups, wherein each group has a plurality of nodes. For each group, one of ... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379591 | Sequential transmission method Provided is a sequential allocation method which can reduce mutual correlation between different sequential groups while maintaining a number of sequential groups. ST101 sets a sequence length Nb=31 corresponding to an RB number m=3 and a sequence number ub=1... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379590 | Method, apparatuses, system, and related computer program product for resource allocation Respective demodulation reference signals (DM RS) of a user bandwidth can be cyclically shifted with respect to each other. An uplink scheduling grant may include an index for a DM RS resource having a cyclic shift and an orthogonal cover code or interleaved frequen... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379592 | System and method for coordinating electronic devices in a wireless communications system A system and method for coordinating electronic devices in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for transmitting information by a controller includes computing a beam cycle based on transmissions from a plurality of mobile devices, receiving resou... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8369279 | Method and system for iterative multiple frequency hypothesis testing with cell-ID detection in an E-UTRA/LTE UE receiver A mobile device receives a signal comprising a PSS and a SSS. The mobile device performs iterative MFHT utilizing a reduced number of MFH branches. At each iteration, frequency offset estimation and Cell-ID detection are concurrently performed. An iteration starts w... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8369280 | Control channels in multicarrier OFDM transmission A base station transmits control information on a subframe of a first carrier starting from the first OFDM symbol of the subframe. The control information provides transmission format and scheduling information for data packets transmitted on a first data channel of... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8358622 | Method of resource allocation in a communication system Resources are allocated in a communication system by setting specific time and frequency chunks within a band to provide localized and distributed resources for each of localized and distributed users. The signalling of resource allocation for each user is in the ch... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8355376 | Broadcast scheme for a multi-carrier wireless network A base station for use in an OFDM/OFDMA wireless network. The base station transmits system-specific broadcast control channel (BCCH) information in a first group of time-frequency slots and transmits cell-specific BCCH information in a second group of time-frequenc... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8355377 | Method of signalling uplink information A method of signaling on a downlink, information regarding scheduling resources allocated in uplink, is provided, wherein the information is contained in an uplink scheduling information message, which is formatted to contain a subset of content of any subsequent up... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8345620 | Method and apparatus for frequency hopping with frequency fraction reuse A method and apparatus for a wireless communication system, for frequency hopping using frequency fraction reuse scheme. The frequency hopping pattern is generated by dividing a portion of frequency into plurality of sub-bands, dividing a portion of time into plural... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8345621 | Method and apparatus for transmitting signals according to the segmented access A method and apparatus of transmitting signals for segmented access in a communication system is disclosed. The method for transmitting signals from a user equipment in a communication system includes the steps of selecting a predetermined channel structure dependin... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8345622 | Method for transmitting and receiving MAP in wireless mobile communication system and system therefor An apparatus and method for transmitting MAP by a base station in a wireless mobile communication system using a frame that includes a plurality of mini frames occupying a specific time period, each of the mini frames including a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs) o... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8345623 | Unified synchronous ranging channel design and allocation in wireless OFDMA systems A unified synchronous ranging channel is provided. The unified synchronous ranging channel has a ranging cyclic prefix length that is the same as a cyclic prefix length of a data channel. The unified synchronous ranging channel is used for one of initial ranging, ha... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8340046 | Method and apparatus for associating a packet with an H-ARQ channel identifier Method and apparatus are provided for transmitting control information to a mobile station. A persistent assignment is transmitted to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) channel identifi... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8340045 | Method and apparatus for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system Techniques to mitigate inter-cell interference using joint time and frequency division are described. A frequency band is divided into multiple non-overlapping frequency subbands. The transmission timeline is divided into Tin and Tout time inte... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8340044 | Apparatus and method of generating and maintaining orthogonal connection identifications (CIDs) for wireless networks A first device is configured to select and utilize a connection identifier (CID) for a peer-to-peer communication connection between the first device and a second device in a wireless communications network. The CID is selected from a predetermined set of a pluralit... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8331309 | Efficient and consistent wireless downlink channel configuration A configuration for downlink signals in a wireless communication system, methods of configuring the downlink signals, apparatus for generating the downlink signals, and apparatus for receiving and processing the downlink signals are described herein. Downlink signal... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8331308 | Systems and methods for network MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems and methods are provided for enabling network MIMO among base stations (BSs) and a mobile station (MS). A BS configure a network MIMO zone based on an indication of at least one other BS eligible for network MIMO. The ne... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8331310 | Systems and methods employing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques A system has multiple antennas, a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) module creating TDM slots, and demultiplexing circuitry inserting within the TDM slots Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and associating the TDM slots with data sub-streams. T... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8331311 | Distributed channel hopping method in wireless ad-hoc network A distributed channel hopping communication method in a low power wireless ad-hoc network. A beacon transmission and reception scheduling method using a distributed channel hopping method in a wireless ad-hoc network, the method includes: transmitting beacons using ... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8331307 | Method of physical resource management in a wideband communication system In a wideband communication system including a transmitter and a plurality of mobile terminals (MT) that have maximum reception bandwidths, respectively, a Shared Control Channel (SCCH) for each MT is mapped so that physical channel symbols from the corresponding Ph... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8331312 | Scheduling of isochronous traffic in time and frequency to reduce contention Techniques are provided to reduce contention (interference) between bursts associated with multiple isochronous traffic flows. Generally, the techniques involve, at a plurality of wireless access point devices and/or a plurality of wireless client devices in a wirel... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8325671 | Methods and apparatus for improved utilization of air link resources in a wireless communications system including a multi-antenna element base station Methods and apparatus are described for improved utilization of air link resources. A base station includes at least one of a plurality of receive antenna elements and a plurality of transmit antenna elements for communicating with a wireless terminal. The base stat... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8325670 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for asymmetric frequency division duplexing operation A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for performing asymmetric frequency division duplexing (FDD) are provided. The method includes allocating a first bandwidth for an uplink portion of an FDD data transmission; and allocating a second bandwidth for a d... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8320321 | Optimizing positions of time slots in a hybrid time division multiple access (TDMA)-carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) medium access control (MAC) for multi-hop ad hoc networks A hybrid TDMA-CSMA MAC protocol is provided for allocating time slots within a frame having a structure in which transmission time is divided into a first number of actual TDMA time slots and a second number of “virtual” CSMA time slots. Each time a given node r... | 11/27/2012 |
