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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7336953 | System and method for determining handover at a base station request in a broadband wireless access communication system A broadband wireless access communication system in which a subscriber station (SS) sends a serving base station (SBS) a handover request to neighbor base stations (NBSs) having a CINR satisfying a handover condition, in response to a handover scan request message, ... | 02/26/2008 |
| RE40117 | Cellular radio routing system A routing system of call connection and call routing for radio telephone communications system including cellular radio systems wherein the mobiles transmit on channels in a first band, and the bases transmit on channels in a second band. The routes are selectable f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336966 | System and method for delay reduction in a network A system and method for reducing the transmission delay of messages sent through a network from a source mobile unit (112) to a destination mobile unit (114). Portions of a data message are received (202). The portions of the data message are de... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336957 | System and method for simulation of performance of measurement-based algorithms for slotted wireless communications A simulation is used to determine the effect of additional users on a communications system, such as a slotted wireless communications system. Users are sequentially added and determinations are made as to whether criteria for the additional user fall within predete... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336969 | Multiple channel communications system A multi-channel communications system for communications between a mobile units and dispatch agencies through tower sites under control of a multi-channel communication controller. The method of communications used is time division multiple access with provisions fo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336923 | Method, apparatus and system for extending wireless network coverage A method, apparatus and system for extending wireless network coverage is generally presented. In this regard, an extender agent is introduced to determine whether a wireless communication(s) was intended for a client(s) on an extended coverage network serviced by a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336956 | Method and system for dynamic channel assignment A method and system for mobile communication, in which method a channel is allocated for a connection having a certain quality of service between a mobile station and a base station in a network whose time-slots are synchronized with each other. The system collects ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333775 | Method for detection of radio communication terminals A method detects which radio communication terminals use interference suppression procedures, in a radio communication system. Here radio communication terminals periodically return measurement signals which represent radio field characteristics and/or reception sit... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333795 | Emergency call placement method An emergency call placement method (300) used in user equipment in idle mode camped on a first cell of a wireless communication network having a first radio access technology includes the steps of requesting (316) a radio resource control connection us... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333811 | Method and apparatus for utilizing historical network information for mitigating excessive network updates when selecting a communications channel A method and apparatus utilizing historical network information for mitigating excessive network updates when performing channel selection between a serving base transceiver station and an adjacent base transceiver station when determined channel selection would res... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333453 | System and method for supporting inter-NAT-domain handoff in a VPN by associating L2TP and mobile IP The present invention relates to a system and method for supporting inter-NAT-domain handoff in a VPN by associating L2TP and mobile IP. A mobile node is able to roam from an Intranet to a foreign network, and implement a VPN by L2TP. The Intranet has a VPN gateway ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333829 | Multi-mode wireless bridge system and method using a single-radio transceiver A system and method are provided for communicating utilizing a plurality of different communication standards. To accomplish this, included is a single transceiver that utilizes a plurality of different communication standards. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333451 | Buffer management for mobile internet protocol Disclosed is a buffer management method for a mobile node in a mobile IP telecommunication network. The buffer management method supports a handoff of the mobile node from a first agent of a first network to a second agent of a second network. The method begins upon... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333813 | Methods and devices for assigning mobile devices to base stations in the presence of interference Mobile devices are assigned to their correct base stations after taking into consideration interference from all other mobile devices. The resulting assignments are more efficient than previous assignments. In addition, transmit power levels are assigned after each ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333807 | Method and system for performing a location registration A method and system is disclosed for performing a location registration in a cellular communication network, wherein a subscriber identity of a user equipment is analyzed when a location registration request has been received, and a priority is allocated to the subs... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333463 | Method and system for transmitting data using a safety channel in a broadband wireless access system A method for allocating a safety channel to a handover subscriber station (SS) for data communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system. In the method, a base station (BS) determines a bin offset indicating a safety cha... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330727 | Method of determining co-location of cell sites and reducing ping-pong effect between cell sites A method for determining the co-location of cell sites includes the steps of acquiring a neighbor cell list (602), monitoring the neighbor cell sites for longitude and latitude information (604). Te longitude and latitude information is used of calcula... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330710 | Private emergency or service-specific call approach in GSM systems A technique for implementing Special Call Services (SCS) to extend wireless system functionality to include private emergency or other types of service-specific special calls in a private network. In a preferred embodiment, the capability is implemented by taking ad... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330453 | System and method for integrating call control and data network access components A system and method for integrating the call control signaling pathway with data network access components. A call control server agent is resident on a network device that provides a first interface from an access network to a packet-switched data network. The call... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330723 | Communication performance calculation method and communication performance calculation apparatus in mobile communication system, and blocking probability calculation method and blocking probability calculation apparatus in communication system, and recording medium A subdivision data holding unit holds data of transmission power Pi and traffic intensity Ai of each subdivision. A propagation associated data holding unit holds data used for calculating received power, such as the height above the ground of antennas of the base s... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330732 | Scheduling neighbor cell measurements for multiple wireless communication systems Techniques for scheduling measurements for cells in multiple (e.g., GSM and W-CDMA) wireless communication systems are described. GSM neighbor cells are categorized based on a number of states. The states are prioritized in a manner to achieve good performance. The ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330452 | Inter-frequency neighbor list searching Techniques for inter-frequency neighbor list searching are disclosed. Embodiments disclosed herein address the need for inter-frequency neighbor list searching. In one embodiment, a searcher is deployed to search a PN space with a first set of search parameters and ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330735 | Timing transitions between wireless communication systems Interoperability between wireless communication systems, such as the IS2000-1x and IS856 systems, is facilitated by using supervision timers. A wireless communication device starts one or more supervision timers and performs an intersystem transition. When the wirel... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330448 | Technique for managing quality of services levels when interworking a wireless local area network with a wireless telephony network A communications network (10) advantageously provides wireless telephony service to a mobile terminal user (16) from one of a first radio access mechanism (18, 20) of a wireless telephony network (12) and a second radio access mechanism (... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328019 | Communication environment measurement method for mobile station and the mobile station In a communication system for respectively transmitting pilot signals from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station via a first channel and also for transmitting data from one base station to a mobile station via a second channel, the mobile station corrects... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328021 | Method and system for using a measure of spectral interference to determine whether to output signals to a wireless link A network entity, such as a base station, a mobile switching center, or a packet data serving node, may be communicatively coupled to at least two transmission paths, at least one of which is a wireless link. The network entity may receive signals from wireless term... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328018 | Handover method and device for mobile node in wireless LAN A handover method and a handover device for a mobile node in a wireless LAN environment are provided. The handover method involves a) scanning beacon signals transmitted from neighboring access routers while a mobile node moves from place to place; b) predicting a n... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328262 | Telecommunications network subscriber experience measurement In a mobile network a packet interface (103) is monitored by a tap (160-163) in a non-intrusive manner. Captured transaction data is uploaded to a probe (155-158) linked to one or more taps. The probe acts as a slave to a server ( | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327705 | Hybrid wireless network for data collection and distribution An electronic data transport system includes a mobile access point and a carrier for moving the mobile access point over a surface and/or water route. The mobile access point includes a communications module for wirelessly transmitting data to and receiving data fro... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327707 | Ping-pong avoidance load balancing techniques and structures for wireless communication Techniques and structures for performing load balancing in a wireless network in a manner that prevents the occurrence of ping pong are disclosed. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327990 | Reception diversity system and control method therefor In a reception diversity system, a wireless apparatus includes an RF unit, analog signal processing unit, digital signal processing unit, and a control unit which controls the RF unit. The control unit operates only a predetermined system of systems while stopping t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327729 | System and method for communications with reservation of network resources, and terminal therefore The communication system supports reservation of network resources. The base stations relay packets among the terminals, and perform priority control based on the priority set to the packets. In the terminal, the communication-managing table stores communication inf... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327734 | Packet data service in radio communication system Disclosed are a method and a device for offering a packet data service during to a handover of a user terminal from one radio network controller to another. To avoid the loss of data during SRNS relocation, there is provided a method for checking the validity of the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328010 | Method and apparatus for steering idle mobile stations Idle mobile stations are steered to a particular cell or service area to accommodate subscriber preferences or restrictions, subscription services, or network operator preferences or restrictions and/or to accomplish load redistribution or other network management f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328014 | Communication system, gateway equipment, communication method and authentication method A communication method and system allowing MN (mobile nodes) to acquire a home address in a visited network. The communication system includes a home network installed with a home agent for holding mobile terminal location information and, a visited network installe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327740 | Facilitating reliable connection admission control for telecommunications system using AAL2 signaling In a telecommunications network, for establishing or modifying a radio connection a node (N1) prepares and sends an AAL2 signaling message (110) for use by a connection admission control function (106) of another node (N2) of the ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328017 | Resource negotiation in wireless communications networks and methods A method in wireless communications networks including transmitting a radio resource assignment (520) to a wireless communications device in response to a request (510), transmitting radio resource assignment time-out information to the wireless commun... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327987 | Base station control equipment, radio base station equipment, radio terminal equipment, and mobile communication system This invention relates to base station control equipment, radio base station equipment and radio terminal equipment that together constitute a mobile communication system. These base station control equipment, radio base station equipment and radio terminal equipmen... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324835 | Motherboard and daughterboard multi-swap system with communication module for a GPRS system A multi-swap communication module includes a motherboard and a daughterboard. The motherboard is provided with a plurality of necessary components for maintaining the operation of a wireless communication card and the daughterboard is connectable with the motherboar... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324821 | Scheduling apparatus and method for determining a desired noise rise over thermal noise in a CDMA mobile communication system There are disclosed an apparatus and method for determining or changing a target ROT for a target cell according to measurement ROTs from its neighbor cells in Node B controlled scheduling for improving enhanced uplink dedicated channels in an asynchronous CDMA comm... | 01/29/2008 |
