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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179875 | Provisioning of non real time services in accordance with network resources availability A method is described for the provisioning of latency-tolerant services in an access network. The method comprises the steps of: setting a demand to provide a service to a user; determining the network resources required to provide this service; establishing based u... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169991 | Interference mitigation in mobile units having location transmitters A mobile device for data communications has a radio circuit for data communications with a wireless network access point and a radio tag for transmitting location-identifying radio signals. The radio circuit and the radio tag are co-located on a circuit board or are... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8149809 | Method apparatus and network node for applying conditional CQI reporting A method for limiting Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting from a User Equipment to a network node is provided where a User Equipment can transmit CQI reports to a network node, such as e.g. a base station, when the User Equipment is operating in low transmissi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149808 | Electronic apparatus having communication function and control method An address of a terminal on a network is fixed during the session. The present invention provides an electronic apparatus that can be connected to a network, including, a communication unit communicating with another electronic apparatus existing on the network, a t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130739 | Methods and systems for frequency and time division access Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for managing and allocating bandwidth in a communication medium. Some aspects relate to the determination of bit usage patterns for use in allocating bandwidth. Some aspects relate to the further determi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130738 | Mobile device services acquisition Provided is a method for enabling a mobile device to subscribe and acquire services, including the steps of: detecting available services/connections or service/location tags which are selectable by the mobile device within the short-to-medium range from the mobile ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8089944 | End-point aware resource reservation protocol proxy A method performed by a first network device may include receiving a request for a resource from an end-point device and acknowledging the request for the resource to the end-point device. The method may also include receiving a resource coordination message from a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068472 | Multiplex switching scheme for communications network An earth station interface architecture provides full mesh connectivity for a relatively small number of network stations. A component of the architecture is a switch, which employs' a network interface standard to ‘define the multiplexing of multiple virtual port... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059625 | Distributed architecture and methods for broadcast/multicast service A distributed architecture and method for MBMS delivery is disclosed. The various embodiments enable selection combining and soft combining by UEs for MBMS transmissions. An MBMS service notification (509) is sent to all E-Nodes (503). The E-Nodes proc... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059626 | Optimum resource allocation method and system in medium access control of distribute scheme in wireless personal area network Provided is an optimum resource allocation method in distributed medium access control in a wireless personal area network, including: defining needed parameters in advance; calculating an overhead AckOverhead needed for an acknowledgement policy and calculating an ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036196 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program A wireless communication apparatus includes: a channel setting portion that sets an working channel and an acquisition channel; a remainder obtaining portion that obtains a remaining time length that can be used to wirelessly communicate with the wireless communicat... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7995548 | Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, and computer program An autonomously dispersed type wireless network is suitably formed with communication stations avoiding collision of beacons transmitted one to another. In the event that the range of reach of airwaves change and a receivable state is created and beacons collide, a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986681 | Subframes in a cellular communications system The invention discloses a method for a cellular communications system, in which traffic is sent in frames, each frame comprising a first number of subframes, with a second number of said subframes being available for at least either uplink or downlink traffic. At le... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986680 | Transmit format selection with consideration for resource reuse Techniques for selecting transmit formats in a manner to account for the degrees of resource reuse for multiple data streams sent simultaneously from multiple antennas are described. The degree of resource reuse for each data stream indicates the amount of reuse of ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986682 | Error control method, medium access control (MAC) frame designing method, and terminal registration method in wireless communication system, and recording medium In a method of registering with an access point in a terminal of a wireless communication system, a frame includes a downlink sub-frame including a broadcast interval and a first management connection interval, and an uplink sub-frame including an access interval an... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978673 | Channel allocation based on random plus planned processes Wireless communication traffic channels are allocated based on random plus planned processes. A request for a traffic channel is sent on a random traffic channel that is not a dedicated random access channel. A determination is made whether to allocate a traffic cha... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974252 | Error control method, medium access control (MAC) frame designing method, and terminal registration method in wireless communication system, and recording medium The MAC frame in a wireless communication system includes a terminal ID allocated to each of multiple terminals. At least one connection ID is allocated to each terminal having the terminal ID, and sub-carrier allocation information is allocated to each connection h... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961694 | Peer-to-peer collaborative streaming among mobile terminals Systems and methods for collaborative streaming among mobile terminals. Periodically, the mobile terminals may pull a portion of the data stream from a content provider coupled thereto over a primary channel and distribute the pulled data to neighboring mobile termi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957359 | Method of resource allocation in a multiple access wireless communications network A scheme is provided for allocating spectral resource made up of a plurality of resource units in a multiple access wireless link linking a partition of a base station and at least one child user equipment of the partition in a wireless communications network. Accor... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957360 | Method and system for the support of a long DRX in an LTEactive state in a wireless network A method of DRX signaling in a long-term evolution infrastructure between an evolved node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE), the method having the steps of providing a DRX value in a header of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC-PDU); acknowledging the MAC... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7944902 | End-point aware resource reservation protocol proxy A method performed by a first network device may include receiving a request for a resource from an end-point device and acknowledging the request for the resource to the end-point device. The method may also include receiving a resource coordination message from a ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7924798 | Method for transmitting data in a wireless telecommunications network using multiple data channels A device can connect to a packet data network through a first data channel, such as a connection with a wireless telecommunications network. The device can additionally connect to the packet data network through a second data channel. The device can simultaneously t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899021 | Method of controlling connection between nodes in digital interface A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899020 | Method for a generalized packet header suppression mechanism using a wireless communications medium A method for reducing the bandwidth required to transmit a data packet via a wireless network is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes generating a packet to be transmitted via the wireless network. Once a packet is generated, a packet a packet type of the... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881276 | System and method for relaying data A data communication system includes a mobile station capable of receiving data communications directed to the mobile station, at least one relay station capable of relaying data between a base station and the mobile station, and the base station capable of assignin... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869414 | Method for multiplexing data streams onto a transport bearer between an originating network node and a receiving network node The area of the invention belongs to the transport technologies in UTRAN. This invention concerns a method for multiplexing a data stream onto a transport bearer between an originating network node and a receiving network node in a telecommunications network. This i... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864744 | Method for dynamically selecting a channel in a wireless local area network Disclosed is a method of dynamical frequency selecting for a basic service set established by a main wireless device in a wireless local area network. The method comprises steps of a determining step for determining whether a new channel to be used by said BSS is ne... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856004 | Method for scheduling heterogeneous traffic in B3G/4G cellular networks with multiple channels A method includes tracking average user throughput, packet delay and jitter for every user that is serviced in an OFDM cellular system; using feedback to determine a potential schedule set responsive to user requirements for data and voice traffic responsive to mini... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852821 | Signalling method of detecting hidden incumbent system in cognitive radio environment and channel fractioning method used to enable the method A signaling method between a cognitive radio (CR) base station and a CR terminal in a CR environment, and a channel division method used for the signaling method, includes: detecting a channel usage of an incumbent system, which communicates with a CR base station; ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7817612 | Decentralized wireless communication system, apparatus, and associated methodology Communication stations select the channel which as many communication stations as possible can receive as a beacon sending channel based on interference information of each channel specified in a beacon signal. When there is a communication station which cannot rece... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804810 | Circuit, method, and program in a CDMA communication system for quickly tracking a stable path A path searching circuit is provided which is capable of searching a stable path. A power delay profile calculated by a powering section using an I component correlation value and a Q component correlation value is input to a power level change monitoring section, w... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7782828 | Method and system for managing channels in a wireless network According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing channels in a wireless network includes retrieving device parameters from a wireless network device communicating on a channel in the wireless network. The device parameters include a parameter indi... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7701914 | End-point aware resource reservation protocol proxy A method performed by a first network device may include receiving a request for a resource from an end-point device and acknowledging the request for the resource to the end-point device. The method may also include receiving a resource coordination message from a ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701915 | Method in a communication system, a communication system and a communication device A method in a communication system, a communication system and a communication device wherein in the method media streams are transmitted from a sending communication device to a receiving communication device at least partly via a wireless communication network. At... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693122 | Resource reservation in a wireless network with distributed medium access control A wireless network with distributed medium access control allows establishing of a virtual channel between a source node and a destination node via at least one intermediate node. The virtual channel may be established for the entire duration of a communication betw... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7643461 | Method and telecommunication system for appointing frequency assignment mode and/or broadcast/multicast service assignment ration for providing broadcast/multicast service A telecommunication system for appointing a frequency assignment mode and ratio for providing a broadcast/multicast service includes at least one access terminal (AT) for receiving a 1xEV-DO service or the BCMCS through a 1xEV-DO system, a base station manager (BSM)... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620027 | Communication system, information processing device, connection device, and connection device designation method for designating connection device for communication device to connect to When connecting a wireless LAN terminal to a specific wireless access point, an inquiry is made to a server about the specific wireless access point, via the wireless access point which the wireless LAN terminal is connecting to, and then connection information for ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613157 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants A method and apparatus for processing enhanced uplink scheduling grants are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) detects an absolute grant (AG) and a relative grant (RG). Once the WTRU detects an AG or a RG, a new serving grant (SG) is generated and a ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7542456 | System and method for splitting a communication data stream A method of conducting communication over one or more communication networks without making any change to the communication network infrastructure, the method comprising: selectively establishing L≧2 communication paths between first and second devices, each commu... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7453860 | Scheduling method for supplemental channel resource A method (30) schedules the utilization of the supplemental channel of a base station transceiver (20-25). This scheduling includes time slot assignment as well as data transfer rate per time slot. One method simply selects the next time slot wi... | 11/18/2008 |
