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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170562 | System and method for base station assisted mobility detection for mobile handsets In this disclosure a technique of base station assisted mobility detection of handsets is described. More specifically by transmitting the subnet ID in the Beacon, a base station simplifies the process of network detection. This also leads to a significant reduction... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8140077 | Handover or location update for optimization for relay stations in a wireless network Various embodiments are disclosed relating to the optimization of relay station handovers and location update in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a request to handover a plurality of mobile stations from a first base station to a second base s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8116776 | Mobile communication handoff between heterogeneous networks A method for providing telecommunication service includes transmitting a node identifier to a mobile station over a first network that supports a first communication protocol and receiving a handoff call, based on the node identifier, from the mobile station over a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8099097 | Method for handover in wireless communication, mobile electronic device, and wireless communication handover system A wireless LAN device determines whether there is a necessity to search for a base station based on base station information as to a currently associated first base station, and selects all or a part of base station search conditions stored in advance to search for ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095137 | Method, system, network entity, and end-user terminal for controlling a handover of a cellular terminal A method, a system and an end-user terminal for providing a handover between a digital unidirectional data communication domain and a digital bi-directional data communication domain is disclosed. Exemplary domains can be a broadcast network such as IP over DVB (Dig... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8064911 | Method of vertical handoff The present invention relates to a vertical handoff method. According to the present invention, a serving network of a mobile station is determined. Herein, the mobile station that can access a first network having relatively wide service coverage and a second netwo... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064912 | Handover method The invention provides a method of handing over user equipment from a source cell to a target cell in a cellular communications network. The cellular communications system comprises a plurality of control units. The method comprises the steps of receiving a message ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060097 | Method and apparatus for intelligent mobile-assisted hard handoff Methods and an apparatus are provided for providing handoff information to a candidate mobile node initially served on a first carrier. The candidate mobile node may inform a wireless-communication network that hard-handoff criteria are met for the first carrier. Th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050683 | Method of determining when a mobile station is ready to be served during a handoff in a wireless communications network A method of determining handoff of a user equipment (UE) to a transferee serving station from a transferor serving station at the transferee serving station is provided. The transferee serving station (e.g., a Node B) measures an energy level in a first portion of a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036665 | Wireless mobile station call handoff Communication handoff in a radio telecommunications network in which a quality measurement between a mobile wireless device and a first fixed transceiving entity in the radio telecommunications network is obtained in readiness for potentially handing off the communi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7991401 | Apparatus, a method, and a system for animating a virtual scene A method for animating a virtual scene that comprises managing a virtual scene comprising at least one virtual object, receiving a text message via a wireless communication network, identifying a pattern indicative of an animation sequence in said text message, and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7957742 | WLAN having load balancing by access point admission/termination A network includes access points that admit/terminate mobile station associations based upon the loading level of the access point and/or whether a mobile station can associate with a further access point. Mobile stations transmit information indicative of the acces... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7890109 | Mobile terminal device for receiving packet-oriented radio signals A mobile terminal device for a mobile telecommunication system is adapted to receive a telephone call, receive packet-oriented radio signals, and select at least one transmission service which is transmitted using the packet-oriented radio signals. The mobile termin... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890110 | Radio network controller, mobile station, and mobile communication method A radio network controller comprises a cell selector configured to select a cell to use by a mobile station after data reception, and a mobile station controller configured to control the mobile station to communicate by radio using the cell selected by the cell sel... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877094 | Location updating in communications networks This disclosure concerns systems and methods for location updating in communications networks. In one example, when a device initiates a connection to an access network, by way of which a communications network is adapted to provide core network GSM functions to dev... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7813734 | System and method to perform a handover in a broadband wireless access communication system Disclosed is a method for recognizing by a Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) whether a serving Base Station (BS) retains connection information in a mobile communication system including the serving BS for providing a service to the MSS and a target BS adjacent to the... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7711366 | Seamless enterprise and consumer mobility Tools and techniques for providing seamless enterprise and consumer mobility are described. More particularly, the tools manage network connections between a communications device and two or more networks. A first network has a first type, and a second network has a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7623864 | System and method for handover to minimize service delay due to ping pong effect in BWA communication system Disclosed is a method for recognizing by a Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) whether a serving Base Station (BS) retains connection information in a mobile communication system including the serving BS for providing a service to the MSS and a target BS adjacent to the... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620400 | Inter-system message delivery for SMS text messages The present Inter-System Message Delivery System increases the SMS text message delivery success rate. When a mobile subscriber station roams outside of the confines of the cell in which it is presently registered, the delivery of SMS messages to mobile subscriber s... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7599695 | Mobile communication system in which communication resources are allocated based on traffic congestion Each mobile station is accommodated in a base station through a radio transmission path. A base station control device controls each base station. A mobile station is accommodated in a first base station. Each of the base stations notifies the mobile station of the ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7583967 | Method and devices for transferring data to a mobile unit According to the invention, in a transfer of data (1) to at least one mobile unit the data (1) are provided with an identifier (7) that assigns the data (1) to the at least one mobile unit. The data (1) are assembled into a data st... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7555299 | Mobile communication system with position detection to facilitate hard handoff A system for facilitating handoff adapted for use with a telecommunications network. The system includes position equipment for determining the location of a mobile transceiver within a region containing a first cell and a second cell. A comparison circuit compares ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7512403 | Apparatus and method for performing an interfrequency handoff in a wireless network An apparatus and method for performing an interfrequency hard handoff at a border cell in a wireless network. The apparatus comprises a handoff controller within a source base station that selects an optimal target base station using location information of at least... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7466981 | Handing off a node from a first access point to a second access point Handing off a node from a first access point to a second access point includes facilitating communication between a node and a network using a first access point. A handoff rule of one or more handoff rules is accessed. One or more handoff factors associated with th... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7437121 | Method and apparatus for receiving broadcast programs and detecting a change in program information There is provided a transmitting section for receiving program information representative of an outline and receiving condition of a receivable program and further receiving a program on the basis of the program information, and a zone-change determining section for... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433690 | Conversion of voice-over-IP media control messaging into mobile control channel signaling using a voice-over IP gateway A gateway serving as an interface between a mobile network and a wireless network can be configured to send a signal strength indicator to the mobile network thereby causing the mobile network to recognize the gateway as a valid path for handing off a call. The wire... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433310 | Estimation of interference variation caused by the addition or deletion of a connection A method for determining whether a connection event between a base station and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) should be accepted or rejected, comprises measuring the interference level I0 in a candidate timeslot; measuring the path loss L between... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433345 | Wireless LAN system and a method using the same A wireless LAN system and a method of using the same. The wireless LAN system includes at least one Interface Service Commercial module (ISCM) for collecting and transferring channel information related to channels in use for wireless networks located in a neighbori... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430417 | Method of reselecting a cell by a mobile terminal in idle mode in a cellular telecommunication network A method is provided of reselecting a cell by a mobile terminal in idle mode in a cellular telecommunication network in which the network sends to the terminal a list containing information with regard to the UMTS cells to be identified, and in which the mobile term... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428303 | Customer communication service system A system and method is disclosed for servicing multi media customer communications to geographically distributed agents from multiple call center sites via the telephone network and a global data communications network. The system provides separate interface ports t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424294 | Method and system for switching a mobile device in a mobile network A method and a system for switching a mobile device (102) from a source Base Transceiver Station (BTS) to a target BTS in a mobile network (100) are disclosed. The method includes detecting an intention to switch the cell transmitted by the mobile devi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421272 | MBMS cell reselection to packet channel A method and corresponding equipment by which a mobile station (wireless terminal) is able to undergo handover to another cell of a telecommunication system, and continue to receive a point-to-multicast transmission (e.g. MBMS packets) without a delay otherwise caus... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418264 | Performing handover by deferring IP address establishment In a broadband wireless access system, when handover is performed while receiving data, a method of deferring IP address establishment procedures is provided to allow such data to be delivered between the base stations. When the terminal receiving downlink data move... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417968 | Method and apparatus for improving hard handoffs in CDMA systems A method of improving hard handoffs in a communication system comprising a source base station (BS) 114, a target BS 106 and a mobile switching center (MSC) 104. In particular, when a handoff is needed, a requested service option and a list of s... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418252 | Subscriber management and accounting using event detection in a wireless device A system and method performs real-time subscriber management and accounting for a wireless device by detecting predetermined events within the wireless device and communicating information pertaining to such events from the wireless device to a real-time subscriber ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408901 | Method and system for predictive handoff of a data session between entities A method and system for managing handoff of a cellular wireless data session between a first wireless coverage area and second wireless coverage area. A first radio network controller (RNC) predicts that handoff of the data session will soon be necessary. Radio reso... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409215 | Mobile communication hand-off control system and unit When a first base station serving a mobile communication terminal in a standby mode, a first neighbor list is acquired from the first base station and stored in a memory. If the serving base station is changed in a standby mode from the first base station to a secon... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406324 | System and method for controlling services provided to multi-mode mobile stations A multi-mode mobile station includes a first interface for wireless communication with a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a second interface for wireless communication with a wireless wide area network (WWAN). An internetwork service control system controls ho... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403506 | Seamless handoff method in wireless local area network A handoff method is provided in a communication network including a plurality of fixed nodes attached to a router connected to at least one external network, and at least one mobile node associated with a current fixed node. The method detects movement of a mobile n... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398091 | Method and apparatus for providing a multimedia broadcast/multicast service in a visited network A communication system provides a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) to a roaming user equipment (UE) by receiving, at a first network, a request from the UE to subscribe to an MBMS service and, in response to receiving the request, conveying to the UE a ... | 07/08/2008 |
