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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7376105 | Source coding for interference reduction A method of encoding a transmission signal to reduce multiple access interference at a receiver. A data source signal including a plurality of source symbols is received into a transmitter. The source symbols are encoded using low energy encoding forming encoded cod... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376879 | MAC architecture in wireless communication systems supporting H-ARQ A medium access control (MAC) architecture determines transmission latency and block error rate requirements for a plurality of data flows, each data flow having an associated priority and each data flow comprising a plurality of data blocks. The MAC architecture sp... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376107 | Spread spectrum communication system and transmission power control method therefor In a spread spectrum communication system, one (Wn) of a series of orthogonal codes for spectrum spreading is assigned to signal-to-noise ratio measurement in a terminal. On the basis of a noise signal detected by de-spreading a signal received from an an... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376422 | Mobile communication system utilizing advance notice of data transmission A mobile communication system, base station device, and mobile wireless terminal are provide which are capable of improving throughput and/or communication quality in the mobile wireless terminal when an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) method is applied to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376114 | Code multiplexing transmitting apparatus A code multiplexing transmitting apparatus spread-spectrum modulates transmission data of a plurality of channels by spreading codes that differ from one another, combines the spread-spectrum signals of each of the channels and transmits the resultant spread-spectru... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376207 | Apparatus for receiving and recovering frequency shift keyed symbols A receiver architecture for receiving an FSK signal having a predetermined number of modulation levels includes a selectivity filter (206) for selectively passing a wanted channel and rejecting unwanted channels. The selectivity filter has a filter bandwidth ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373164 | Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control that supports physical channel reconfiguration Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control are provided. Determination of gain factors and adjustments for physical channel reconfiguration in the context of transmission power control are addressed. Preferably, implementation is in ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373162 | Methods of controlling transmission power levels in air interface channels The present invention relates to wireless communications, and in particular although not exclusively, to networks of indoor collocated or overlapping wireless coverage areas especially those intended for operation in unlicensed spectrum such as the Industrial Scient... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372834 | Method of controlling transmission power of retransmission packet and mobile terminal using the same The transmission power of a retransmission packet is controlled in the event of a packet retransmission request being sent from a receiving side in a wireless mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) transmission. In a me... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373118 | Method and system for facilitating transmission of analog signals to a wireless terminal A wireless network may have a digital base station and a radio link converter unit. The digital base station may receive bearer data for each of a plurality of channels, establish control information for each of the plurality of channels, and output a digital signal... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373161 | Method and arrangement for power control A method for setting a power control level (600) in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of obtaining (620) transmission information from a wireless subscriber unit, and modifying a power control level and/or a communication c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372895 | Method of and system for delay estimation with minimized finger allocation A signal-path delay-estimation method includes correlating a computed coarse delay profile of at least one detected signal path cluster with a waveform to yield a strongest correlated peak for each of the at least one detected signal path cluster. The method also in... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372802 | Message communication via channels having strong fading In a transmitting/receiving concept a redundancy-adding encoder is used in order to obtain two data streams for different transmitters. In the receiver, the receiving signal is sampled by a first sampler synchronous to the first transmitter and is output by a second... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372909 | Radio transmitting apparatus, radio receiving apparatus and method therefor By assigning a plurality of subcarriers 31 to a data channel 33 and assigning fewer subcarriers 32 than the plurality of subcarriers 31 to a control channel 34, and in addition locating the control channel 34 at the center f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372825 | Wireless communications system with cycling of unique cell bit sequences in station communications A wireless communication system (10). The system comprises transmitter circuitry (BST1) comprising circuitry for transmitting a plurality of frames to a receiver in a first cell (Cell 1). Each of the plurality of frames comprises a bit group ( | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372831 | Packet transmission acknowledgement in wireless communication system Transmitting an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal in association with a packet transmitted on an uplink is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a packet transmitted from a user equipment, decoding the packet, and determining... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372894 | Method of processing a signal by a radio receiver and radio receiver for the implementation of the method In a spread spectrum digital radiocommunication receiver, a first estimate of a symbol transmitted by a sender is calculated by applying to a radio signal received a processing taking into account a number N of propagation paths from the sender, a parameter of relia... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372836 | Method of transmitting control data in CDMA mobile communication system A device and method for configuring an UL-DPCCH. One or more UL-DPCCHs, especially a UL-DPCCH for supporting HSDPA, are constructed in code division multiplexing and transmitted according to the characteristics of control information. The UL-DPCCH of the present inv... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372910 | Apparatus and method for generating preamble sequences in an OFDM communication system An apparatus for generating a preamble sequence in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system using A subcarriers in a frequency domain. A preamble sequence generator generates a length−M+N+k preamble sequence, where M+N+k is less th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372833 | Resource allocation in packet network The idea of the invention is to negotiate the resource allocation between two network elements on the Application or Transport layer level so that the negotiation is possible over the network, even if the network comprises several physically different networks. To d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373441 | Universal serial bus hub with wireless communication to remote peripheral devices A wireless USB hub for connecting a plurality of remote peripheral devices to a computer for communication therewith without the need to physically connect the peripheral devices to the hub via a cable connection. The wireless USB hub includes a receiver for receivi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372892 | Simple and robust digital code tracking loop for wireless communication systems A simple and robust CTL is used for time tracking of multipath components of a spread spectrum signal transmitted over a wireless multipath fading channel. A digital code-tracking loop includes the implementations of despreading early and late data samples by use of... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372891 | Signal generator and decoder A signal generator and decoder are used for a single sideband spread spectrum signal. A single sideband spread spectrum signal generator and decoder in which single sideband modulation using a complex spreading code is achieved with improved correlation properties, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372841 | Packet-based communication system and method A system and method for facilitating communication of packets between one or more applications residing on a first computing device and at least one second computing device. The system comprises a connection manager adapted to receive packets from the at least one s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369620 | Channel noise estimating method and apparatus applied to a multi-carrier system A channel noise estimating method and apparatus applied to a multi-carrier system are disclosed, where data symbols received by a receiving unit are applied to reconstruct the original transmitted data symbols. The reconstructing process is performed by either a sof... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369624 | Carrier suppression type modulator with encoded modulating signals A carrier suppressed information signal modulation arrangement employs a plurality of serially coupled modulators. Each of the serially coupled modulators has a carrier input, a modulating signal input and a modulated carrier output. A carrier is applied to the carr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369850 | Connectivity notification displaying path to connection A system and method in a connectivity user interface of a mobile device that enables a user to inspect and select a connection from among available network connections and methods of connecting. If the user alternatively wants a connection to be automatically select... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369857 | Processing transport format information to prevent MAC header redundancy Processing transport format information to prevent MAC header redundancy, by providing a transmitting side that attaches one header to received data blocks, transmits the data blocks with the header attached thereto during one transmission interval on a data channel... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369531 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a pilot signal for distinguishing a base station in a communication system using an OFDM scheme A method for transmitting reference signals in a radio communication system in which a frequency band is divided into a plurality of sub-frequency bands. The reference signals are transmitted through at least one of the plurality of sub-frequency bands, and data sig... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369523 | Data signal demodulation in a communication system A method described evaluates the pilot-to-data power ratio based on the values of the demodulated data at the output of a receiver such as a conventional maximal ratio combiner or an equalizer receiver. Since the data are not scaled to their particular decision grid... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369534 | Reducing search time using known scrambling code offsets Techniques for reducing search time using known scrambling code offsets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of search results is generated by correlating a received signal with a synchronization sequence. The plurality of search results is reduced by remov... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369577 | Code group acquisition procedure for a UMTS-FDD receiver Step 2 demodulation is conventionally performed using a secondary synchronization channel that correlates a received signal at a known time slot location against each of a plurality of sequences associated with the secondary synchronization code. The disclosed imple... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369485 | Wireless receiver for sorting packets A wireless receiver that sorts packets including a packet detector, multiple correlators, and multiple packet processors. Each correlator correlates a received signal according to packet type. Each packet processor processes the received signal according to packet t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369486 | Apparatus and method for increasing channel capacity of a mobile communication system An apparatus for increasing channel capacity in a mobile communication system using a hybrid phase shift keying (HPSK) modulation method. The method includes a walsh code control unit for checking sequences of walsh codes respectively outputted from a first walsh co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369580 | Amplitude limiting circuit and CDMA communication apparatus An amplitude limiting circuit for limiting the amplitude of a signal input to a power amplifier includes an amplitude converter, determination unit, peak detector, window filter, delay circuit, and multiplier. The amplitude converter calculates the amplitude value o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369528 | Method and system to send SMS messages in a hybrid network Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed to pass SMS messages from a mobile operating in a CDMA Radio Access Network to a Hybrid MSC, and to route the SMS message from the Hybrid MSC to a GSM SMS-C in the Core network, the hybrid wireless network having at l... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369617 | Multi-dimensional data interleaving communications system An interleaving operation can scramble (permute) a data stream, or each dimension (set of symbols (a, b, c, . . . )) in a data stream, immediately following FEC encoding or dimension multiplexing of the data stream. Bursts of errors might be combined with the permut... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369877 | Multi-channel demodulation with blind digital beamforming A system and method for receiving communication signals is provided. According to the method, a plurality of communication signals is received, each communication signal comprising one or more source signals. The plurality of communication signals are multiplexed in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369601 | Code division multiple access receiver Processing of a received code division multiple access, CDMA, burst (405) when a spreading factor of the CDMA burst (405) has been changed from an allocated spreading factor (SF0) to a new spreading factor (SFn). The received burs... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369606 | Phase error detector using I/Q interference cancellation A method is presented for estimating a phase error for first (rI) and second (rQ) orthogonal signal components spread respectively by different first cI and second cQ spreading codes. A cross-despread value IdQ and/or QdI ... | 05/06/2008 |
