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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6784806 | Electronic electricity meter An electronic electricity meter which, in one embodiment, includes a modem board, or unit, coupled to the meter microcomputer and exchanges information between the meter and a central computer is described. Using signals supplied by the meter microcomputer and the c... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6785252 | Method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. In a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6747968 | Methods and systems for weighted PCF polling lists for WLAN QoS support Methods and system for weighted polling of terminals in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Quality of Service (QoS) information related to WLAN terminals is obtained. A weighted polling factor may be assigned to each WLAN terminal based on the QoS information. Ea... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6744780 | Method and system for adaptively managing a communications network A system and method for managing a communications network establishes an initial polling interval for a corresponding network element. The network management system detects whether the network element provides at least one status message during a group of sequential... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6737985 | Remote metering A meter for use in a radio frequency remote metering system comprises an antenna; a transmitter for transmitting meter signals via the antenna; a receiver connected to the antenna for receiving and filtering an incoming radio frequency signal; and a carrier signal d... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6721302 | Apparatus, and associated method, for communicating packet data in a SDMA (Space-Division, Multiple-Access) communication scheme Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating SDMA (Space-Division, Multiple-Access) operation of a packet communication system in which packet data sizes are variable. Determinations are made of at least the relative sizes of data to be communicated pursuan... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6701149 | Handoff framework to support real-time delay-critical services in a next generation network A next generation wireless data network and method for handing off a mobile node is presented. The network includes a core network (CN) coupled to a plurality of radio access networks (RANs). The RAN servicing the mobile node examines overload factors in ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6694348 | Data communication system and time slot allocating method In the data communication system, a terminal station includes a data buffer and a terminal station side finite state machine for, when data is accumulated at the data buffer, periodically making a request for allocation of time slots to a base station unt... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6683864 | Transmission method and transmission apparatus A transmission apparatus includes an inverse-Fourier-transforming device for inverse-Fourier-transforming predetermined transmission data at N (N is an arbitrary integer) points, a register (23) for setting N series data transformed by the inverse-Fourier... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6657987 | Scheduling methodology for connections with quality of service (QoS) constraints in a polling based media access control (MAC) Media Access Control (MAC) Scheduling for Quality of Service (QoS) uses the bandwidth and delay requirements of a connection to calculate the polling interval, which is the maximum time that the scheduler can be away from the connection. The methodology i... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6643813 | Method and apparatus for reliable and efficient data communications The reliability of data communication by is improved analyzing plural data units in a group or a block rather than analyzing individual data units. For example, at the time that a transmitter desires or needs to send a polling request to a receiver, there... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6628639 | Wireless network using high and low decision thresholds for selecting and maintaining a channel In a communication network, a wireless channel is selected from multiple channels. The interference level of the selected channel is determined and a first quality value is derived and compared to a first decision threshold. If the first quality value is ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6621812 | Method and apparatus for mapping voice activity detection to a scheduled access media Unsolicited grants are allocated a selected time interval for scheduling transmission of audio packets at a network endpoint. A network processing node switches from outputting unsolicited grants to polling for packet transmission requests when Voice Acti... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6621827 | Adaptive method for polling A method is disclosed for transferring data from a data source to a service broker. The method includes providing a data source and a service broker; providing a moderator for receiving the data transferred by the data source; providing a data store for s... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6611769 | Meter register with programming and data port and meter input resolution factor An electronic, programmable meter register (10) includes an input section (18, 19, 30) for generating pulses in response to units of flow in a water meter, a stored control program (46), a microelectronic CPU (31) for executing the program (46) to read in... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6597670 | Method and system for distributing subscriber services using wireless bidirectional broadband loops A method and system for distributing subscriber services to a number of user locations in a broadband cellular network. A bidirectional antenna array located at a number of cell centers provides coverage over a wide service area by using wireless distribu... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6587034 | Data communication device Simplified data message terminals and data communicating voice terminals are described for providing additional functionality in a facility using a wireless data communication system. The simplified data message terminals provide message and paging commun... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584100 | System for establishing a transmission sequence for plural terminals in a wireless network The system establishes a transmission sequence for effecting communications between plural terminals in a wireless network. This transmission sequence is defined by a control data frame comprised of plural slots, each of which can be allocated for communi... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6567386 | Polling control method, transmission control apparatus and transmission apparatus Within a frame period there are defined a managing data transmission area and a data transfer area. Within the managing data transmission area there is made a transmission of data for determining a state of polling control and within the data transfer are... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6535716 | Monitor and control system for satellite communication networks and the like A monitor and control system for satellite communication networks includes a hub computer terminal arranged in a network with a plurality of remote computer terminals to form a mesh communications network. The hub terminal provides frequency and time divi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529119 | Establishment of communications with a selected device in a multi-device environment A method and apparatus are described that allows a wireless device to detect and initiate communications with a selected second wireless device in a multi-device environment. Initiation of communications with a chosen second device is accomplished by gene... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6519233 | Subscriber unit burst mode reservation in a code division multiple access wireless communication system A CDMA communication system supports designated mode data bursts on a reverse link contention based channel from a subscriber unit to a base station. The reverse link contention based channel also supports contention-based transmissions from the subscribe... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6515970 | Communication system with fast control traffic A method and system for conducting rapid control traffic in a time division multiple access (TDMA) communication system comprises a base station communicating with a plurality of user stations in assigned time slots of a time frame. For bearer traffic, ti... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6493545 | Communication control method and transmission apparatus At least one communication station is provided with a number of antennas having directivities, a communication station to which a radio signal is transmitted for the next communication is judged by the communication station provided with the number of ant... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6490297 | System and method for automatic signaling channel identification The system and method of the invention enable any channel of a multi-channel communication link to be used for transmission of a control signal to a system component by a system controller. The system component, connected to the system controller by the m... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6480473 | Verification of active nodes in an open network The present invention involves a network polling protocol which treats the network as a logical ring or linear sequence of nodes linked together so that a polling request is simply propagated down or around the network one node at a time until a complete ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477149 | Network system and method of controlling multicast group participation of mobile host Mobile hosts have a direct participation multicast group managing unit for managing a multicast group in which the mobile hosts participate in a form of conducting multicast communication directly from a network out of a plurality of networks in which the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6404760 | CDMA multiple access interference cancellation using signal estimation Several methods and corresponding apparatus to reduce multiple access interference in code division multiple access communications systems through successive interference cancellation techniques. An estimate of reliability of cancellation of a strongest i... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393273 | Method of and system for determining ARQ capability of a base station A digital radio communication system has a mobile station and a base station, the mobile station transmitting messages to the base station in a series of frames. Each frame has a header with a frame number and an optional polling indicator. A method of de... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6393013 | CDMA mobile communication system and communication method A radio communication system having a base station and a plurality of radio terminals, wherein each radio terminal having a transmission request transmits a reservation packet at arbitrary timing through a reservation channel in accordance with a CDMA sch... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6330305 | System and method for locating faulty elements in a telephonic distribution system A system and method for determining the location of faults in a telephonic distribution system where each endpoint in the system has an associated verification code. The endpoints are polled and the response is compared to a corresponding verification cod... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6307847 | Method of addressing messages and communications systems A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to establish communications without collision between the interr... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301241 | Transmission right assigning method and communication system A plurality of devices and a transmission right assigning device are connected to a transmission line. The transmission right assigning device transmits a transmission request retrieving frame, and then I/F in each device adds, if necessary, transmission ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6282186 | Method of addressing messages and communications system A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to attempt to identify individual ones of the multiple wireless ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6275500 | Method and apparatus for dynamic control of talk groups in a wireless network A transceiver device (50) acting as a master (2) among a plurality of communication devices (1 and 12) potentially acting as slaves to the master (2). The transceiver device (50) includes a transmitter (68), a receiver (54) coupled to the transmitter (68)... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6266537 | Radio communication system A radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile stations belonging to the service areas covered by the radio zones respectively formed by the base stations and performs data communication by polling. Each base ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6246677 | Automatic meter reading data communication system An automatic meter reading data communication system having an integrated digital encoder and two-way wireless transceiver that is attachable to a wide variety of utility meters for meter data collection and information management. The integrated encoder ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6236650 | Transmission medium sharing utilizing service messages and random ballot, and method, device and systems utilizing same In the digital communication systems, devices and methods described, a transmission medium is shared by means of service messages indicating to each digital communication device whether or not that device is authorized to send on the medium once the mediu... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6229807 | Process of monitoring the activity status of terminals in a digital communication system In a digital communication system comprising a primary station and a plurality of secondary stations remote from the primary station and in which the primary station exchanges data with the secondary stations which are currently associated; a process of s... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226279 | Allowing several multiple access schemes for packet data in a digital cellular communication system A digital radio network having a first single random access for packet data is enhanced by providing a second access which includes a second random access channel for controlled short data messages and a polled data channel for larger data messages. All m... | 05/01/2001 |
