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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7924789 | Foreign agent address assignment for mobile IP path optimization A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for creating an optimized communication path between mobile devices. The method includes receiving a request to transmit data to a destination mobile device, and identifying a destination IP address of a des... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924788 | Access areas in a mobile system A method of managing access areas in a communication system is disclosed. In the method information regarding a detected access area is received from at least one mobile device, the detected access area being an access area that is not included in a set of available... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924786 | Handoff system and method among heterogeneous networks and mobile terminal employing the same Disclosed are a handoff system and a method among heterogeneous networks. The handoff system among heterogeneous networks has plural access nodes which supports wireless communication with a mobile terminal; and a crossover node which selects resources of an access ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924787 | Method and apparatus for controlling scanning period in a mobile communication terminal A method and an apparatus for controlling a WLAN scanning period using a velocity sensor in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The velocity of a user is measured at a predetermined period and it is determined whether the measured velocity satisfies a pred... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924784 | Feedback control method and apparatus in closed-loop transmit diversity Disclosed is a feedback control method in closed-loop transmit diversity in which feedback information representing amounts of amplitude and phase control is transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station. The mobile station receives downlink pilot signal... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924785 | Method and system for switching a radio access technology between wireless communication systems with a multi-mode wireless transmit/receive unit A method and system for switching a radio access technology (RAT) between wireless communication systems connected to each other while implementing different RATs with a multi-mode WTRU are disclosed. A plurality of wireless communication systems are deployed with o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920519 | Transferring context information to facilitate node mobility Facilitating node mobility includes facilitating a communication session for a mobile node communicated along a first communication path. A first anchor point manages context information for the communication session, where the context information comprises informat... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920520 | Handoff between a SIP network and a cellular communication system Handoff between a wireless SIP network and a cellular communication system is provided. A system is designed to provide nomadic cellular services including voice to a SIP-enabled device. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920521 | Method and system for foreign agent relocation in wireless network Method and system for foreign agent relocation in wireless network. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for providing wireless access. The system includes a service network that include a database for storing information associated wi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920522 | Method and apparatus for system interoperability in wireless communications In a method and apparatus for providing system interoperability in wireless communications an IP based client-server application maintains a proper set of PDP contexts while a mobile is connected via an IP based system. The application client resides in the mobile a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920523 | Method of supporting quality-of-service application session continuity during inter-technology handover using a common packet data function The present invention provides a method of handing off a mobile unit that supports multiple quality-of-service (QoS) application layer clients that operate according to multiple wireless access technologies in a packet-switched communication system. The method inclu... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916698 | System for managing services of WiMAX base stations A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) base station having a wireless transceiver, and a controller to manage the wireless transceiver. The controller can dir... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916695 | Smart buffering for policy enforcement The present invention discloses a method for smart buffering for a policy resolution and policy enforcement system. The invention can be applied to a communication system with one or several available communication network(s). The trigger events and policy actions f... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916696 | Traffic handover control device and method of multi-mode mobile communication terminal Provided is a handover control device and method of a multi-mode mobile communication terminal. The device includes a first processing module; a second processing module connected in its inter-chip path with the first processing module; and an application processor ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916697 | Handover of a mobile station The invention relates to a method for supporting a handover of a mobile station 1 from a first radio access unit 3, 8 of a wireless communication network 2 to a second radio access unit 4, 9 of a wireless communication network 2. I... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912009 | Method and apparatus for supporting mobility in inter-technology networks Various embodiments are described for supporting mobility in an inter-technology network. Such a network (300, e.g.) includes multiple interconnected access networks, utilizing various access technologies, and perhaps having overlapping, but non-aligned cover... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912011 | Radio communication system, base station, mobile station and wireless communication method In a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile stations, a base station includes a reception timing difference report unit measuring a reception timing difference of reference signals transmitted from neighboring bas... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912008 | Home agent, mobile router, and mobile communication method using the same A mobile communication method includes: a step for transmitting a binding update message for notification of a care-of-address of the network where the mobile network has gone, from a mobile router to a home agent, which can be used after the network has moved; and ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912010 | Wireless connection terminal and roaming method for providing stable wireless connection to access point A control unit of a wireless connection terminal compares the received signal strength indicator of an access point currently connected to by the wireless connection terminal with the received signal strength indicator of a neighboring access point. If the differenc... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907570 | HSDPA CQI, ACK, NACK power offset known in node B in SRNC High speed data packet access (HSDPA) is facilitated by ensuring that power offsets are delivered to the base station (Node B) so that the new functions envisioned therefor having to do with scheduling and retransmission handling can be carried out effectively. A si... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907571 | Mobile aware beacon Techniques for reducing beacon interference include identifying a mobile device located within a coverage area serviced by a first access point, determining a power of a signal transmitted by a mobile device to a second access point; and modifying the beacon to redu... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907568 | Method of performing a handover There is provided a method of performing a handover of a mobile station. The method in accordance with the invention comprises the step of receiving a dataflow which comprises the downlink data traffic to the mobile station and the step of queuing the dataflow. The ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907569 | Media independent handover (MIH) terminal, MIH server, and method of vertical handover by the terminal and the server A vertical handover (VHO) method of a media independent handover (MIH) server includes: searching for a second communication network appropriate for a requested VHO, and transmitting MIH terminal information to the second communication network when the VHO is reques... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903611 | Handoff method in a wireless local area network and apparatus using the same A handoff method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) and an apparatus using the same are provided. A mobile station (MS) switches between a data transceiving mode and a probing mode at a predefined interval when the MS is transmitting/receiving packages. In the ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903610 | Reverse link handoff mechanism with hybrid ARQ and cell site selection A method for providing a reverse link handoff mechanism includes, with respect to communication between a mobile station and a first cell, initiating a start of a cell switch delay by transmitting a request that a new data channel be established with a second cell. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899013 | System having output device and external apparatus for receiving data in place of output device, output device, device for alternative reception, and their control method A system for connecting an output device to an external device via a network is disclosed. The output device includes a radio communication section, a selecting section, and a requesting section. The radio communication section communicates by radio. The selecting s... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894400 | Handover between an IEEE 802.16 WiBro network and a UMTS network using media independent handover function A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include an IEEE 802.16 modem, a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) modem and a media independent handover (MIH) entity. Software application programming interfaces provide the MIH entity with mechanisms to re... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894399 | Phase shifted time slice transmission to improve handover The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a wireless system broadcasting a plurality of data packets to at least one wireless terminal. The wireless system comprises a plurality of base stations that interfaces to a backbone network in order to receiv... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889699 | Method for selecting serving node in multi-hop wireless mobile communication system Provided is a multi-hop wireless mobile communication system where a plurality of nodes exist. To select a serving node to be provided with a service, a Mobile Station (MS) receives relay information provided for serving node selection from at least two nodes and se... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889700 | Method of configuring and updating connection identifier in a broadband wireless access communication system In a method of configuring connection identifier (CID) update information in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system where each service between an mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) has a unique CID, a registration request message is received... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889698 | Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio network controller A transmission rate control method for controlling, at a mobile station, a transmission rate of uplink user data, based on a dedicated absolute transmission rate of uplink user data received via a dedicated E-AGCH which is transmitted using a dedicated identifier fo... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889697 | Method and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device Methods and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device. A method is provided for receiving content in a wireless data network. The method includes initiating a content download over a first connection that supports a first data rate, wherein the content has a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885236 | Method of initializing and establishing links in a multi-mode mobile terminal A method of performing a handover with at least one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises establishing a heterogeneous network handover module for converging information from the at least one network interfa... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885231 | Method of reconfiguring an internet protocol address in handover between heterogeneous networks A method of communicating information in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes a network for establishing handover management modules in a source network and a target network and transmitting a handover request m... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885232 | Mobile communication terminal, method of operating the same in handover rejection and method of rejecting handover in portable internet system A method of operating a mobile communication terminal for a handover rejection in a portable Internet system and the mobile communication terminal using the same are disclosed. The method includes transmitting a handover request message to a serving base station and... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885233 | Forwarding broadcast/multicast data when wireless clients layer 3 roam across IP subnets in a WLAN In a network comprising a first subnet comprising a first WLAN associated with a home wireless switch a second subnet comprising a second WLAN associated with a first current wireless switch and a third subnet comprising a third WLAN associated with a second current... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885234 | Method and system for providing voice call continuity A method and system for providing circuit-switched to IP Multimedia Subsystem voice call continuity with a single radio are provided. The exemplary embodiment takes advantage of a standard RANAP signaling procedure called “directed retry” to perform a much bette... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885235 | Data communication method and mobile communication system Since OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), which is a downlink access scheme used for an LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication system, is weak at interference, it is preferable that the number of base stations for transmitting the same E-MBMS (Evolve... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881261 | Method and apparatus for efficient dormant handoff of mobile stations having multiple packet data service instances An exemplary method and apparatus provide improved dormant handoff of mobile stations having multiple packet data service instances. Each time a dormant IS-2000 mobile station undergoes a packet data mobility event it sends a dormant handoff request to the supportin... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881262 | Method and apparatus for enabling mobility in mobile IP based wireless communication systems A method is provided for providing secured mobile IP services to a mobile terminal which is currently associated with an access network different from its own home access network. The method is characterized by creating a virtual mobile node at an access network ser... | 02/01/2011 |
