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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7184791 | Methods, receivers, and computer program products for determining transmission power control commands using biased interpretation Methods, receivers, and computer program products for defining asymmetric decision regions of a symbol space to interpret transmitted power control commands are disclosed. A method of determining transmitted power control commands at a receiver can include defining ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184769 | Diversity handover control apparatus and method In a mobile communication system, radio channel capacity can be secured. A plurality of base stations transmit to a mobile station information X0 and the like about diversity handover, and a reference signal (such as a perch signal). The mobile station measures rece... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180874 | Method for providing voice/data and information communication in a dect radio communication system The invention includes the steps of: (1) during the 0th frame, setting value of an extend flag of zero length paging message through P-channel to be 1 for informing the portable terminal to receive the paging message within the 2nd frame; (2) d... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181221 | Cellular network handoff modeling Disclosed is a system for evaluating the performance of cellular network handoff decisions. One embodiment of this system includes the steps of: creating a reference cellular network description; creating reduced geometric structures from the reference cellular netw... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181193 | Generating charging information in a communication system A method for generating charging information in a communication system is disclosed. The method includes providing a gateway with information regarding a time zone of a user equipment provided with network access by an access entity. The method also includes providi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181222 | Radio configuration-based handoff parameter adjustment A method and apparatus facilitate soft handover in a CDMA RAN (100) based on a requested set of soft handover parameters from a plurality of sets of soft handover parameters associated with a corresponding plurality of radio configurations. A mobile station (... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180878 | Method for determining a candidate cell for an active set A method (200, 300, 400) according to the invention is a method for determining a condidate cell for an active set, where the quality factor of each cell in the active set is determined (202), a quality factor of a test cell is determined (203),... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177653 | Mobile user position locating system A method and system for locating a mobile user of one or more mobile users while on a call in a wireless telecommunication network utilizes a decision network that determines if the call signal is propagating through a repeater station. When the call is propagating ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177646 | Telecommunication routing using multiple routing protocols in a single domain Packets are routed in a communications network including an infrastructure of packet switching nodes interconnected by packet transport links, and a plurality of access nodes to which a routing path, defined by data held in packet switching nodes located along the r... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177596 | Method and apparatus for coherently combining power control commands to initialize communication A power control system for use in facilitating transition to an active state suitable for use in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, the system includes a first transceiver, such as a BTS, having the ability to initiate transmission of a power control fu... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174141 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communications in a radio communication system through use of ultrawide band signals Apparatus, and an associated method, for a radio communication system having a sending station and a receiving station. The sending station sends data pursuant to a communication service and ultrawide band signals pursuant to a selected time-hopping sequence. An ult... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174167 | Code-division-multiple-access mobile communication system accommodating increased number of mobile stations A system for mobile communication, based on code division multiple access includes base stations, each of which communicates with mobile stations by using a plurality of radio frequencies covering respective cells, the respective cells including a first cell covered... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171231 | Method and system for transmitting short messages using sending node grouping The present invention relates to methods and systems for transmitting short messages using sending node grouping. A system for transmitting short messages using sending node grouping according to embodiments of the present invention includes: a plurality of sending ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171199 | Method and system for directing a data message in a wireless communications network including multiple wireless systems A mobile station scans for electromagnetic signals representing control channels of the public wireless system and the private wireless system. The mobile station measures a received signal parameter of at least one of the scanned control channels. The hybrid commun... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171196 | System for transmitting information by radio between an infrastructure and mobiles The cellular system for transmitting information by radio between an infrastructure and mobiles constrained to travel on a determined path comprises stationary transceiver stations and at least one transceiver carried by each mobile, which transceivers are controlle... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167719 | Method for controlling transmission power in a mobile radiocommunication system A method of controlling transmission power in a mobile radiocommunications system, in which at least two distinct physical channels transmitted by a single transmitter have their respective transmission powers controlled by a power control algorithm as a function of... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167709 | Handovers of user equipment connections in wireless communications systems An inter-frequency handover of a UE connection is performed in which the frequency of the uplink connection from the UE to a base station remains the same and the frequency of the downlink connection from the base station to the UE changes from a first downlink freq... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164917 | Radio access network apparatus and mobile communication system using the same The radio access network for allowing to construct a system abundant in scalability in a W-CDMA mobile communication system. A RNC in the radio access network is physically separated into a C plane control equipment for controlling signaling and a U plane control eq... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164889 | Mobile communication system A communication system to which can be applied a site diversity procedure in which different transmitting stations are not synchronized with one another, and signals from plural transmitting stations are received simultaneously. The timing shift produced when signal... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164916 | Method for quality measurement in a mobile telecommunications system A method for operating a radio telecommunications system comprising a mobile station and one or more cell site units capable of communicating by radio with the mobile station on at least two communication channels; the method comprising: the mobile station receiving... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161916 | Method and apparatus for uplink rate selection in the presence of multiple transport channels in a wireless communication system Systems and methods for selecting data rates at which to transmit data over a primary uplink in the presence of one or more secondary uplink channels. One embodiment comprises a method including determining probabilities associated with numbers of attempted transmis... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162203 | Method and system for adaptive modification of cell boundary A method and system for reducing interference in a cellular radio communications network. At least one parameter affecting user terminals within a cell is adjusted such that the cell boundary is modified, such that interference in the network is reduced. In alternat... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162244 | Method for transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station A method of transmitting signals from a plurality of first stations to the same second station, the method comprising the steps of transmitting first signals comprising a first communication and first associated information from one of the plurality of first station... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162241 | Method for managing multicast group in mobile communication system A multicast service of a 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is disclosed. By allowing an RNC to manage multicast group member information by multicast services on multicast areas, when a user terminal being currently provided with an MBMS service... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162243 | Secondary station and method of operating the station A secondary station has a receiver capable of resolving signals received as a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of base stations during a soft handover process. This capability may, for example, be provided by a Rake receiver. In order to decode and ac... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162245 | Intersystem call transfer method for use in cellular mobile radio systems A method for intersystem transfer of calls from a first cellular mobile radio system using the macrodiversity transmission technique to a second cellular mobile radio system, the macrodiversity transmission using a radio network controller of the first system, refer... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162246 | Mobile telecommunications with multisector antennas In order to cover a mobile telecommunication zone, an access network node comprises a first multisector antenna to transmit and receive in several first main directions on one and the same first fixed frequency each covering a first sector having on either side of t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159035 | Unified routing scheme for ad-hoc internetworking Routing table update messages that include both network-level and link-level addresses of nodes of a computer network are exchanged among the nodes of the computer network. Further, a routing table maintained by a first one of the nodes of the computer network may b... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154870 | Method of handoff control in an enterprise code division multiple access wireless system A wireless office communication system including a wireless internet base station (WIBS) encompassing a base station controller (BSC), a mobile switch controller (MSC), and an ethernet interface module for coupling the wireless internet base station (WIBS) to an exi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155223 | Optimizing hand-off neighbor lists for improved system performance Method for improving hand-off performance in a code-division multiple access (CDMA) cellular telephone system. A preferred embodiment comprises the analysis of saved hand-off information to minimize the size of neighbor lists for each base station in the cellular te... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155229 | Distributed wireless architecture using microcast A mobile communication system comprises a plurality of cells, with each cell including a network of microstations distributed more or less uniformly throughout the cell. A central controller connected to the network of microstations selects a group of microstations ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155235 | Method and apparatus for conserving home agent resources in mobile IP deployment A method and apparatus for conserving home agent resources in mobile Internet Protocol (IP) deployment is disclosed. In a wireless communication system supporting mobile IP, a release candidate set is generated and updated during operation of the network. When an in... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155165 | Method and radio station for the transmission of predistored signals via several radio channels A method and radio stations for transmitting signals between a first radio station (1) and a second radio station (2) are proposed, in which the influence of amplitude fluctuations or fading can be reduced. In a modulator (4) of the first radio ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154846 | Shared channel structure, ARQ systems and methods A forward link design is provided employing CDMA (code division multiple access) technologies in which time division multiplexing is employed between data and control information on the forward link to service multiple users per slot. Another forward link design emp... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151927 | Quality of phone service system A method for checking the quality of service provided by a base station at a location remote from the base station, including transmitting signals between the base station and a call transceiver at the remote location, analyzing at least some of the signals at the r... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151931 | Method and system enabling roaming between different wireless networks A method and system enabling roaming between different wireless networks. A mobile device supporting low and high-tier wireless network standards is adapted to roam between a low-tier wireless network and a high-tier wireless network with lower bandwidth but more mo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151766 | Radio communication apparatus used in CDMA communication system and power consumption control method therefor A radio communication apparatus used in a CDMA communication system includes a plurality of delay profile circuits for generating delay profiles by calculating the correlations between a reception signal and known data at a plurality of timings, and timing circuits ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151933 | Method of handoff within a telecommunications system containing digital base stations with different spectral capabilities The present invention is directed to a digital wireless telecommunications system that includes a plurality of base station of differing spectral capabilities, and a plurality of remote stations capable of transmitting data to and receiving transmissions from the pl... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151756 | Hard handoff method between an asynchronous CDMA system and a synchronous CDMA system A hard handoff method between asynchronous CDMA (code division multiple access) system and synchronous CDMA system is provided. A hard handoff method between asynchronous CDMA (code division multiple access) system and synchronous CDMA system in accordance with an e... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151757 | Wireless base station to base station synchronization in a communication system, such as a system employing a short-range frequency hopping or time division duplex scheme In a network, a method is disclosed for wirelessly exchanging communications with at least one mobile unit. The network includes first and second base stations units coupled to the network, and may include a system controller. The method includes: receiving a commun... | 12/19/2006 |
