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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7907947 | Cell search control method and mobile device using the method A cell search control that can save power consumption at a mobile device and perform an appropriate in-service area determination is provided. The mobile device according to the present invention includes: a cell search execution unit (120) for detecting a sy... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899456 | Method for faster mobility handoff of a mobile node When a mobile node moves to a network (foreign network) other than its home network, it must register with the home network so that the home agents are able to tunnel messages to the mobile node while it is operating in the foreign network. The present invention ena... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894813 | Method and apparatus for utilizing historical network information for mitigating excessive network updates when selecting a communications channel A method and apparatus for selecting a base transceiver station from a plurality of available base transceiver stations. The method comprises identifying an incremental value associated with an adjacent base transceiver station; selecting, from a plurality of availa... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894814 | Integrated wireless/wireline registration A system and method are disclosed for routing telephone calls directed to a wireless unit located in the wireless network to a landline device located in the landline network. The system utilizes a location register in the form of a service control point (SCP) locat... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890103 | Wireless base station and mobile station A mobile station used in a mobile communication system which accepts location registrations from mobile stations in order to perform mobile station location management, the mobile station being comprising a detection unit which detects that it is in an overlap regio... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881717 | Method for registering with a communication service A method determines whether a given mobile communication device is eligible to register for a particular service. A first database tracks the equipment capabilities of various mobile devices. A second database tracks which regions, of a plurality, of geographic regi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873358 | Method and system for providing inbound traffic redirection solution The present invention provides a method for redirecting roaming traffic of a roamer associated with an HPMN and currently roaming in a first VPMN. The method includes detecting by a detection unit coupled to the first VPMN, a registration attempt of the roamer at a ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869807 | Method of managing a code identifying a wireless device with conflict minimized in a wireless telecommunications system In one wireless device, when wishing to participate in a communications network, an ID generator in an ID manager uses a hash function on the address of the device and time to generate a device identification identifying the one device, and registers the identificat... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865188 | Convergence of ancillary call services across multiple communication domains A method for communication in an environment including a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network, both of which include a respective connectivity layer including one or more switching elements and a respective service layer including one or more servi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860501 | Method of informing a network of change of user equipment capability A method of informing a network of a change of user equipment capability includes: stopping a registration timer on the user side set currently when the user equipment capability changes; sending a register request message carrying information of new user equipment ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856233 | System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture An authentication, authorization, and accounting module of a first distributed mobile architecture is disclosed and includes a home location register. The home location register provides information associated with one or more mobile subscribers that are registered ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853259 | Methods for air interface message transfer in fast call setup processes A method of UU message transfer for fast call setup. The method includes encapsulating a Service Request into a RRC Connection Request. When a UE starts the service sensitive to call setup delay, the RRC layer encapsulates the Service Request into IDT. If this encap... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853257 | Method for fast call setup in a mobile communication system This invention presents a method for fast call setup in a mobile communication system, including the steps of radio resource control (RRC) connection setup, Non-access stratum (NAS) signaling connection setup and NAS signaling interaction, and radio access bearer (R... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853258 | Methods for air interface message transfer in fast call setup processes A method of UU message transfer for fast call setup is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating a Service Request into a RRC Connection Request message. When a UE starts the service sensitive to call setup delays, the RRC Connection Request undergoes non-critica... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848750 | System for changing location registration A mobile terminal, which is registered to either a first mobile communication network or a second communication network, determines whether it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network on the basis of control information received from the sec... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848749 | Method and apparatus for activating a dormant mobile unit in a distributed network The present invention provides a method of wireless telecommunication in a distributed network comprised of a plurality of access points. The method includes receiving information indicating that a dormant call session is to be activated. The method also includes pr... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848751 | System and methods for data communications in a wireless communication system In one embodiment, a mobile communication device is configured to selectively enable user data communications after registration in a wireless communication network. The mobile device sends, via its radio, feature compliance information to the network. In response t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844267 | Server for providing access by a communication terminal to a communication processing service A service processing server for providing a communication processing service with an information providing server, to a cell phone belonging to a network capable of identifying subordinate cell phones, and including an application receiving part for receiving first ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840215 | System accounting in a multiprocessor environment In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) assigning an attribute to each of a plurality of processors, and designating one of the plurality of processors as a proxy processor; (ii) when a user session begins using a first of the plurality of processors, sending a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835739 | Method of excluding ineffective inter system page attempts A method and apparatus are provided for excluding ineffective Inter System Page (ISPAGE) attempts in a mobile switching center (MSC). The present invention involves determining a time difference between an arrival time of an ISPAGE message and a time of a last seen ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835740 | Establishing cell codes for picocells within a macrocell A wireless communication system has at least one picocell within a macrocell. A method of communicating in that system includes using a set of predefined cell codes for respectively identifying macrocells. At least one predefined cell code is used for identifying al... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818002 | Subscriber registrations in a mobile communication system A method in a communication system wherein a user (1) is arranged to register with a control entity (22) comprises sending a message from the communication system to the user (1) requesting that the user re-register with said communication netwo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818003 | Communication device auto negotiate reconnect The embodiments contemplate a negotiation and reconnection method between two devices for use when an original call connection is dropped. In order to allow a reconnected call to be easily made without multiple calls from each user, a negotiation between the two dev... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818004 | Mobile network device multi-link optimizations Methods and apparatus for performing optimizations for a mobile network device such as a Mobile Node or Mobile Router supporting multiple links to a Home Agent (or Correspondent Node in a Mobile IPv6 environment) are disclosed. During the registration process, link ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813731 | Apparatus and method for controlling packet service in mobile communication terminal Provided are an apparatus and method for a packet network register in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes demodulating an incoming broadcasting message; determining a packet network resource state according to specific information contained in the d... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7813732 | Method and apparatus to track count of broadcast content recipients in a wireless telephone network A base station in a wireless communications network counts mobile stations receiving broadcast content via multi-user channel. The base station broadcasts a repeating message identifying at least one broadcast content stream and, for each stream, a REGISTER (R) or D... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809372 | Method for a secure detach procedure in a radio telecommunication network Discloses are systems, methods, devices, including a method for performing a detach of a terminal registered to a telecommunication network by associating an identification for the terminal, deriving a signature for the identification, and allocating a pair containi... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801527 | Cell update process with reconfiguration status If there is a radio link failure condition (330) between a user equipment (380) and a network (390) during or after a reconfiguration process, a cell update process with reconfiguration status indicates whether a user equipment reconfiguration i... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801525 | Network support for paging channel and access channel optimization A method for conserving paging and access channel bandwidth is provided in a wireless network (A) that includes: a plurality of cells (32) served by a mobile switching center (20); a paging channel for paging a mobile station (MS) (40) located w... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801526 | Methods for informing subscribers of adjacent sites Methods for informing a mobile device of adjacent sites in a RF communication system wherein the RF communication system comprises a first network and a second network are disclosed. A mobile device in the first network of the RF communication system updates a signa... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801528 | Method of changing standby order of waiting mobile terminals in mobile terminal A method for changing a standby order of waiting mobile terminals includes displaying a standby order of a plurality of mobile terminals according to an audiovisual communication request order when a first mobile terminal receives requests for audiovisual communicat... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796990 | Method for the routing of multimedia communication related signaling in a communication system The invention relates to a method for the routing of multimedia communication related signaling in a communication system. In the method a signaling message is received to a first network node. The signaling message provides an identity associated with a user. A has... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792527 | Wireless network handoff key A handoff key is provided for facilitating a hand off of a wireless terminal from a first access point to a second access point. The handoff key may be generated by a server and communicated to the first and second access points. Alternatively, the handoff key may b... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792528 | Method and system for provisioning IMS networks with virtual service organizations having distinct service logic Methods and systems for provisioning IMS networks with Virtual Service Organizations (VSOs) or Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) that have distinct service logic, enabling VSOs and MVNOs to provide distinctive service experiences. Call models are provisioned ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787879 | Method and system with user identifiers that indicate session type A user uses a wireless communication device to engage in a communication session over a packet-switched network. The communication session is one of a plurality of different session types, e.g., a push-to-talk (PTT) session or a Web browsing session. The user is ide... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7778640 | Method of communicating data in a wireless mobile communication system A method of communicating data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a method discloses transmitting a request by a mobile subscriber station (MSS) to a network entity via a de-registration request message requesting the network entity ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773988 | Network entry method in wireless mobile communication system A network entry method in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. An initial network entry method by a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless mobile communication system includes sending a ranging request message including a Medium Access Control (MAC) addre... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773987 | Method for performing RR-level registration in a wireless communication system Techniques to reduce the amount of registration required by a mobile station in a wireless communication system, especially if the registration zones are defined to be small areas. In one scheme, a mobile station registers (e.g., at RR-level) with a network entity (... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769380 | Method for reducing the rate of registration in CDMA-based mobile networks The method for reducing the rate of registration in CDMA-based mobile networks is a method for preventing a traveling mobile device from registering within a new, or secondary, registration area, prior to physically relocating from a first, or current, registration ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769378 | System and method to improve WLAN handover behavior at entry/exit points A system, wireless device (306) and method determine that a wireless device (306) is detecting a triggering event. The triggering event includes detecting a WLAN border cell (210), detecting a first signal from an egress portal (302), or ... | 08/03/2010 |
