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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8121143 | Scheduling method for broadband wireless access system A scheduling method for a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system is provided. The scheduling method for a BWA system includes selecting a terminal having a highest priority using a scheduling algorithm, determining a burst region to be assigned to the terminal, and ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7899075 | Uplink transport format selection A method includes performing transport format combination selection so as to maximize transmission of higher priority data. The method operates, when scheduled and/or non-scheduled grants are taken into account for a transmission time interval, giving data of a give... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894466 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing pattern masking and traffic rule matrix scheduling for multiradio control Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for implementing pattern masking scheduling in a multiradio terminal having multiradio control. When a message to be carried by a modem is configured by a multiradio controller, it is given a prio... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889756 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing temporary link quality modification for multiradio control Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for reallocating on a temporary basis at least a portion of access to a common communications channel ordinarily allocated to a high priority modem of a multi-modem terminal to a lower priority mo... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7839884 | Method and device for resolving collision in a wireless telecommunications network A contention resolution system and method are disclosed that can be used in a station having a data packet to send in a wireless telecommunications network. After a predetermined maximum number of selection rounds, it is determined whether the station is authorized ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7764706 | Time reservation using adaptive control for energy efficiency A network, such as a radio network, uses dynamic transmission scheduling and soft clustering. When nodes contend for data slots, each node that is successful continues to have its data slot reserved for it until it sets an end-of-stream bit in an information summari... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760754 | Priority access for real-time traffic in contention-based networks A contention-based network which allows real-time traffic to exist as multiple independent linked-list chains or under certain conditions to be assembled into multiple linked-list chains. A time separation is enforced between the various multiple chains, which are l... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7738479 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for multi-channel communications using universal address book server A method of providing communications can include forwarding a message from a universal address book server via a plurality of communications channels associated with an addressee of the message based on a priority of the message received at the universal address boo... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733896 | Dynamic access priority scheme In the dynamic access priority method, priority classes with different backoff delays are used to prioritize random access over shared channels and to reduce collision in the presence of a surge of random access requests. Service class information for a plurality of... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697560 | Method of assigning radio channels A base station assigns a most appropriate carrier from wide frequency bands in response to a re-request for channel establishment received from a mobile station, even if a same slot as a slot last assigned is assigned. Furthermore, a frequency management table is ma... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7551639 | Method of transmitting packet data in a communication system A method of transmitting packet data in a CDM and TDM mobile data communication system is provided. The method comprises determining priorities of one or more control channels, transmitting control information related to one or more packet data sets to one or more m... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7471693 | Multiple HARQ processes handling method The invention concerns a method of managing a plurality of parallel hybrid ARQ processes including at least one of a reserved and/or additional HARQ process comprising the step of scheduling the available HARQ processes for transmission in accordance with at least o... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7443791 | Priority mechanism for distributed sending of media data Media data is distributed across multiple devices, and multiple schedulers and senders are installed across the multiple devices. Schedulers formulate send requests that stipulate particular media data portions and designate destination clients. Each send request is... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7411961 | Apparatus and method for scheduling forward channel transmissions in a wireless network base station An apparatus and method for controlling the transmission of data packets from a base station in a wireless network to a plurality of mobile stations in a coverage area of the wireless network. The apparatus comprises a transmission scheduler for accessing a pluralit... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408947 | Method and apparatus for scheduling packets and/or cells A system and method of scheduling packets or cells for a switch device that includes a plurality of input ports each having at least one input queue, a plurality of switch units, and a plurality of output ports. There is generated, by each input port having a packet... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7394768 | Fair scheduling with guaranteed minimum parameter The present invention relates to a scheduling method and apparatus for scheduling data packets in time-shared channels, wherein a scheduling priority is determined for a user based on a ratio between a transmission parameter, e.g. throughput, offered to the user and... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7376766 | Method and apparatus for managing I/O paths on a storage network A processing apparatus which stores a first information piece about attributes identifying a specific process generating data input/output requests in such a manner that the first information piece is associated with a second information piece identifying at least o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369565 | Wireless communication system and method using the same A wireless communication system has a queue information search unit for searching a queue-status information provided in a packet unit, a communication priority decision unit for deciding communication priority of external devices based on the queue-status informati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366534 | Wireless communication apparatus, method thereof, and wireless communication system employing the same A wireless communication apparatus, a method thereof, and a wireless communication system employing the same. The wireless communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving data wirelessly includes a transmitting portion for transmitting the data through at lea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361178 | Cranial flap clamp and instrument for use therewith The disclosed cranial flap clamp includes first and second clamping members and an extension member. A portion of the first member is positionable against inferior surfaces of a bone flap and skull and a portion of the second member is positionable against superior ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359326 | Method for splitting data and acknowledgements in a TCP session In a Quality of Service system, segments in a TCP session are assigned a priority level. A segment may contain an acknowledgement and data. The system determines if network congestion is detected or anticipated in the segment's priority band or in a higher priority ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353025 | Uplink scheduling method of wireless mobile communication system A method of uplink transmission scheduling for a network including at least one radio network controller (RNC), at least one user equipment (UE), and a plurality of Node Bs. The method includes determining a parameter to be applied to an uplink transmission schedule... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352737 | Communications in an asynchronous cellular wireless network Systems and techniques are disclosed for establishing a reference corresponding to the timing of a received signal from the first source, determining the timing for each received signal from a plurality of second sources, adjusting the reference to the timing of the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337337 | Apparatus and method of reducing power consumption using power-save polling list An apparatus and method of reducing power consumption in a station on a wireless LAN is provided. Included is a cumulative lead time frame receiver, a self lead time frame production transmission unit, an inactive state cumulative lead time count unit, and an active... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333730 | Method and system for controlling steering devices using infrared signals A steering method and system controls a plurality of infrared units with a plurality of infrared controllers. The infrared controller sets the time interval between the end of a start signal and the start of a steering signal to match a predetermined time interval s... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327679 | Method of providing QoS and bandwidth allocation in a point to multi-point network An upstream bandwidth allocation scheduler is provided for use within a Line Termination (LT) unit in a point to multi-point data communications network in order to service multiple Network Termination (NT) units. The scheduler first allocates bandwidth among the se... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324480 | Mobile communication apparatus and method including base station and mobile station having multi-antenna A mobile communication apparatus including a base station and at least two mobile stations, having multiple antennas, respectively is provided. In the mobile communication apparatus, the base station restores from feedback signals transmitted from the mobile station... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321940 | Iterative architecture for hierarchical scheduling Conventional schedulers employ designs allocating specific processor and memory resources, such as memory for configuration data, state data, and scheduling engine processor resources for specific aspects of the scheduler, such as layers of the scheduling hierarchy,... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319667 | Communication system with priority data compression A data compression system that dynamically adapts the degree of compression used in response to the priority of the data to be compressed is provided by virtue of one embodiment of the present invention. In one embodiment, only low priority data is compressed while ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313408 | Method and apparatus for enhancing packet service performance of a mobile communication terminal A method and apparatus for enhancing performance of a packet service of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. When the mobile communication terminal uses a packet service, an RAB set between the mobile communication terminal and a base station is compared to... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310326 | Enhanced channel access mechanisms for an HPNA network A method and system is disclosed for providing access in a centralized manner to a communications medium that is suitable for allowing use of a plurality of Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA) v2 frames, and such that each HPNA v2 frame is timed to allow a plu... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301908 | Method and apparatus for rescheduling a communication system channel after a channel property change Techniques for rescheduling one or more timing intervals associated with a channel of a communication system. Responsive to a detected change in a property of the channel, a rescheduling algorithm identifies a given one of the timing intervals, within a schedule for... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295514 | Method of controlling call admission in a mobile communication system A system and method for controlling call admission control in a mobile communication system enables call admission control function to be conducted in a forward link of the mobile communication system. The call admission control method includes a call admission cont... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295513 | Scheduling of wireless packet data transmissions A method for scheduling packet data transmissions in a wireless communication system is described wherein a priority function is based on a channel state indicator (CSI), the projected average throughput of the users, and a tuning parameter designed to control the t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292821 | Communication line connecting apparatus and method of controlling communication line connecting apparatus An apparatus includes an acquiring circuit to acquire a definition file which specifies a band for use in the internal communication network for the terminal device, and a controller which allocates the band to the requesting terminal device based on the definition ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292530 | Method and apparatus to manage packet fragmentation Embodiments of a method and apparatus to improve network performance by managing packet fragmentation are described. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289527 | Admission control in networked services Prediction-based online admission control for incoming jobs has an explicit objective of optimizing a utility function. The input to an algorithmic procedure is a set of requests made in respect of a network service. Each request has information about the length of ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287268 | Video-on-demand system which builds transmission control lists and uses such lists to send video data packets with respective subgroups of internet protocol headers A video-on-demand system is comprised of a supervisor processor and a co-processor which are intercoupled via a bus. The supervisor processor has a supervisor memory and the co-processor has a co-processor memory. A supervisor control program is in the supervisor me... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283552 | Method of scheduling bursts of data for transmission in a communication network A method for scheduling data bursts from origin to destination nodes of a communication system involves selecting a yet-unscheduled, feasible node pair for scheduling of a burst therebetween; selecting a timeslot from a finite timeslot sequence; scheduling the burst... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280517 | Wireless LANs and neighborhood capture Overlapped wireless LAN cells in a medium have an equal chance at establishing a session on the medium. A first member station in the first cell transmits a timing packet containing a timestamp value, which is received at a second member station in the second cell. ... | 10/09/2007 |
