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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8064909 | Interworking gateway for mobile nodes Systems and methods are provided that allow inter-working between communication networks for the delivery of service to mobile nodes. A gateway is provided that communicates with a femto cell to extend service to an area that otherwise does not receive coverage from... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064910 | Proactive handover policy An exemplary system and method for determining handovers for a mobile device are disclosed. An exemplary system may generally include a handover server in communication with a communication network configured to support initiated communications from a mobile device.... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060093 | Handover system and method in a wireless mobile communication system A handover method of a Mobile Station (MS) and a wireless mobile communication system are provided. The handover method includes sending a handover request message to a Serving Base Station (BS), receiving a handover response message including handover Target BS inf... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060091 | Transfer rate measurements An apparatus in a radio terminal (MS) determines a measure representing transfer rate from a radio cell to the terminal. The apparatus includes units (SINR-1, . . . , SINR-4) for determining several signal quality measures of pilot signals received fro... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060092 | Apparatus and method for handover between heterogeneous systems An apparatus and method for enhanced heterogeneous network handover using a media independent handover scheme is provided. A heterogeneous network handover method of the present invention includes generating, at a mobile node, self-location information, transmitting... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060090 | Mobile station and handover control method A mobile station includes a handover controller. When the mobile station simultaneously communicates with a plurality of radio base stations by using first channels and communicates only with a certain one of the plurality of radio base stations by using a second co... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055263 | Fast cell selection method and apparatus for high speed downlink packet access system A cell setting apparatus is provided for scheduling a packet data service in a mobile communication system supporting the packet data service. A signaling receiver receives information on a cell to be added to an active set and information on a change in a best cell... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055264 | Method and apparatus for controlling handoff Disclosed is a method for controlling handoff by a network infrastructure, which includes collecting channel information and transmitting the channel information to a Mobile Terminal (MT) and a method for controlling handoff by a MT, which includes receiving channel... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050678 | Apparatus and method for executing the handoff process in wireless networks Disclosed is an apparatus and method for executing the handoff process in the wireless networks. The apparatus comprises a processor to execute an identity checking mechanism. When a wireless network station wants to move from a source AP to a destination AP, the wi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050681 | System and method for controlling connections between a wireless router and unlicensed mobile access capable mobile phones A system for controlling connections between a wireless router and unlicensed mobile access capable mobile phones is provided. The system acquires and stores a media access control address and an Internet protocol address of each mobile phone in an address list. The... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050680 | Apparatus and method for performing vertical handover in a wireless communication system A vertical handover method and apparatus in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a serving network selects a target network for a vertical handover of a terminal from among at least one candidate target network to which the terminal can perform the... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050677 | Mobile communication terminal and call handover method Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal including: a user information storage unit for storing user information having a terminal identifier for identifying an arbitrary communication terminal, and a user identifier for identifying the user of the communication... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050679 | Method and apparatus for indicating preferred layer information in multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) A method is disclosed for transferring preferred frequency information in a mobile communication system which establishes a preferred frequency layer and a non-preferred frequency layer for a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service. The method involves... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045987 | Radio network controller peer-to-peer exchange of user equipment measurement information A drifting wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) has an associated drift radio network controller (D-RNC) and an associated servicing radio network controller (S-RNC). The D-RNC sends a request message to the S-RNC requesting measurements of the drifting WTRU. The S... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041356 | Device and method for enabling the reception, by a mobile terminal located in a moving conveyance, of signals transferred in at least a first and a second cells of a wireless cellular telecommunication network A device assisting in reception, by a mobile terminal located in a moving conveyance, of signals transferred in at least a first cell and a second cell of a wireless cellular telecommunication network composed of plural base stations, the moving conveyance moving fr... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036662 | Method and apparatus for performing handoff in mobile network communication by immediately terminating a connection before changing the point of attachment to save network resources A server including: a communication unit for wirelessly communicating with a mobile terminal through one of wireless network gateways; and a processing unit for receiving registration request information from the mobile terminal through the communication unit, execu... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036664 | Method and apparatus for determining rove-out Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first wireless communication system that includes a Femtocell access point (FAP) and a network controller that can communicatively couple the FAP to a second wireless communication system. In... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036663 | Method for handover between frequency allocation in broadband wireless access system A handover control method in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed. In a broadband wireless access system supporting multiple frequency allocations, in which a serving base station controls a handover, the present invention includes the steps of receiving ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032140 | Wireless communication device and handover warning method A wireless communication device (100) includes a receiving module (11), a storage module (12), a processing module (13) and a warning module (14). The receiving module receives data sent by a base station of a network communicating... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027679 | Secure intra- and inter-domain handover To achieve a secure and fast handover in a distributed mobile communication environment (10), the control functionality is lying at the borderline between wireless and wire-bound communication network elements, and it is proposed to, firstly, execute a mutual... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027680 | Selective handoff between access gateways Embodiments of the invention include providing access by a user device of a network service including: sending an initiation signal to a SIP proxy server, initiating an application on the user device, sending QoS parameters for the user device and the application to... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027681 | Method and apparatus to allow hand-off from a macrocell to a femtocell A method for hand-off of a CDMA access mobile from a macrocell to a femtocell is disclosed. The method includes tracking each femtocell which mobile stations have allowed access incorporating a mobile station identification for each of the mobile stations. The metho... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027682 | Method for supporting fast base station switching in a wireless communication system using multiple frequency bands A method for performing fast base station switching in an mobile station capable of using multiple frequency assignments in a wireless communication system are provided, in which initial network entry to a base station managing at least two frequency assignments is ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023945 | Method of releasing link connection after handover in multi-mode mobile terminal and terminal thereof The present invention relates to a method of releasing a network connection with a link of a medium access control layer previously accessed before performing a handover to a heterogeneous network in a mobile terminal configured with a multi-mode (e.g., interface be... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019343 | Support for handoffs in high rate packet data systems The invention supports two types of handoffs. The first handoff is for an inter-AN cell selection where the source AN allows the AT to add a cell under the control of a different AN to its active set and then allows the AT to switch to the target AN. A bearer path i... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014777 | Method and system for transmitting/receiving data in heterogeneous communication systems A method and a system are disclosed for transmitting/receiving data in heterogeneous communication systems having a mobile station, a first communication system currently accessed by the mobile station, and a second communication system having an access scheme diffe... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014778 | Handover management in group calls A mobile terminal of a digital cellular radiocommunication system that is in the receiving phase in a group call while roaming in a current cell, indicates to a fixed network element of the system, a given destination cell out of a number N of cells adjacent to the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010109 | Call routing determination based on a class of service associated with the call A method for determining if a call, corresponding to a mobile terminal located in a cell of a base station of a wireless telecommunication network is permitted to be routed through the base station. The method includes receiving a command representative of a level o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010111 | Method and system for communicating content on a broadcast services communication system An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two tra... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010108 | Radio link handover in a cellular communication system A base station (109) of a cellular communication system (100) comprises an RNC interface (301) which receives a radio link handover initiation message for a radio link from a radio network controller (113). A switch delay processor (30... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010110 | Mobile communication system, maintenance terminal, adjacent cell information optimizing method, program, and recording medium A maintenance terminal comprises a detected cell information collection unit that collects detected cell information including identification information of a handover original cell and identification information of a cell as an expected movement destination from a ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010107 | Method and system for user-requested vertical handoff While a mobile node is engaged in a communication session via a first air interface channel, the user of the mobile node requests a vertical handoff. In response to the user's handoff request, the mobile node goes into a dormant mode to release the first air interfa... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005477 | Method for improving quality of service management in a mobile packet radio communication cellular system Method of improving quality of service management in a packet mode cellular mobile radio system, in which method: in the event of a change of cell from an old cell to a new cell, information on a quality of service profile negotiat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005478 | Handover request method for use in portable internet system and mobile communication terminal using the same A handover request method for use in a portable Internet system and a mobile communication terminal using the same are disclosed. The handover request method of the mobile communication terminal in the portable Internet system according to an embodiment includes ope... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000710 | System and method for providing a handoff leg associated with a preexisting leg in a network environment A method for facilitating communications between wireless networks is provided that includes communicating with a mobile station and transferring a communication session from a first wireless link to a second wireless link. The mobile station is operable to negotiat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000708 | Seamless inter-network handoff A method, system, and medium are provided for increasing the robustness of communications sessions between mobile devices and communications networks through handoff diversity. Separating the handoff times through handoff diversity provides for continuous transmissi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000707 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing 3.9G mobile-assisted cell change Disclosed herein are apparatus, method and computer program product providing 3.9G mobile-assisted cell change. During an active state of user equipment, it is determined whether at least one trigger condition exists. If at least one trigger condition is determined ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000709 | User initiated mobile learning of preferred femtocell A method and apparatus are provided to allow a mobile communications device to identify and store the locations of femtocells which are not contained on a preferred femtocell list of the mobile communications device. Upon identifying a specific femtocell, an authori... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000711 | Procedure for non synchronized radio access (NSRA) resource assignment A procedure for RACH initial access in a mobile terminal is provided such that necessary information is conveyed the for the initial access procedure with less overhead. The method allow an accurate choice of the uplink transport format by allowing the mobile termin... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996236 | Wireless LAN with load balancing A communication system with a plurality of access points (AP1, AP2, AP3) and at least one network station (5, 6), the network station (5, 6) being arranged to communicate with one of said the plurality of access points (AP1,... | 08/09/2011 |
