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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185121 | Optimization of displayed RF coverage A method for optimizing RF coverage includes dividing a floor plan according to a plurality of grids. Radio frequency coverage for each of the plurality of grids is calculated to render a plurality of coverages. First data representative of the plurality of coverage... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185122 | Method for creating a cellular telephone infrastructure The Demographic Index (DI) was created for wireless communication network design, however has relevance in other marketing based applications. The DI combines a series of demographic census records into a single weighted index value that can be used to evaluate geog... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175608 | Node placement method within a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network The disclosure includes a method of and associated system for placing nodes in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes receiving user-specified parameters regarding the network. The parameters can include a layout of a building or other space, and ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175607 | Network configuration audit A cell planning tool capable of determining the correctness of stored parameters regarding a cell site configuration, e.g., regarding the height of an antenna section or the output power. The correctness of the parameters is determined by importing a number of in-si... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165590 | Neighbor cell relation list initialization Neighbor cell relation lists are initialized and managed in various ways that are especially beneficial to closed subscriber group (CSG) cells served by CSG base stations. Typically, only a radio terminal belonging to the CSG is permitted to access and receive servi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160595 | Base station apparatus and communication control method In a base station apparatus for transmitting a L1/L2 control channel to a user apparatus to communicate with the user apparatus, a plurality of combinations of a modulation scheme and a channel coding scheme which include a plurality of types of coding... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160594 | Radio propagation estimating method and radio propagation estimating apparatus A radio propagation path from a transmitting point to a receiving point is estimated accurately with a relatively small amount of calculation. A predetermined-size receiving area including the receiving point is set, radio propagation paths from the transmitting poi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150402 | Method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell. The method includes: a) initializing, for the at least one network cell, a service... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131301 | Geographic relocation processing of wireless communication equipment What is disclosed is a method of operating a processing system to relocate wireless communication equipment. The method includes receiving customer data and performance data for wireless communication equipment located at a plurality of potential donor sites, and re... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126470 | Topology and route discovery and management for relay networks Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to route discovery and management in relay networks. In an example embodiment, a first message may be received at a first network station in a wireless network. It may be determined whether the received first messag... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112089 | Radio parameter determination method and device for a radio communication system The present invention is directed toward realizing a radio parameter determination method for improving values indicating the communication service quality of important areas in a radio communication system. The configuration of the present invention includes: a sec... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099098 | Methods and apparatus for planning wireless data networks using analytical modeling of user level performance Techniques and systems for planning of wireless networks are described. A system according to an aspect of the present invention receives inputs describing traffic statistics for a wireless network and computes network specifications. The system uses the traffic sta... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095139 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for assigning cell and resource blocks A method and apparatus for assigning cell and resource blocks to a wireless transmit/receive units (WTRU) in a wireless communication system including a resource management unit and a plurality of cells having resource blocks are disclosed. The WTRU is currently ass... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090379 | Cellular systems with distributed antennas A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations, each including at least transport management equipment and broadband equipment, at least one of which supports at least remote cellular station i... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090378 | Color code reuse for cellular systems A method for configuring color codes in a cellular telephone network is disclosed. The method includes calculating a distance between all possible color codes to be assigned to each of the cells in the network, assigning a first code to a first base station, determi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086239 | Infrastructure for wireless telecommunication networks A wireless network including a plurality of base stations operating at a public spectrum frequency, each base station capable of generating an adjustable size coverage area. Each base station utilizes dedicating channels for each user to permit avoidance of one or m... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078181 | Method for planning cellular communication networks, corresponding network and computer program product therefor In a method of planning cellular communication networks, at least one cost function indicative of the quality of service rendered by the network is defined which takes into account the quality of service of location-based services rendered by the network. That cost ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078182 | Method and system for communicating user interfaces between first and second users over a network A system generates a first user interface that includes a first plurality of items respectively associated with a first plurality of selection functions. Next, the system presents the first user interface to a first user over a communications network. Next, the syst... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060103 | Apparatus and method for operating broadcast message in broadband wireless communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting neighbor base station information in a broadband wireless communication system. In the method, the priorities of subcells included in neighbor base stations that use at least one frequency allocation are determine... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060102 | System and method for coverage analysis in a wireless network The present invention is a system and method for coverage analysis in a wireless network. The invention seeks to evaluate the location and characteristics of a proposed base station in a wireless communication network, prior to the base station being erected. Data i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055265 | Method and system for selecting radiation diagrams of antennas for mobile-radio communication networks The radiation diagram of an antenna for serving a cell in a cellular communication network is selected from a plurality of available radiation diagrams by: classifying the plurality of available radiation diagrams in terms of a related radiation gain value; identify... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045989 | Method and apparatus for reducing the number of times of measurements for cell reselection in mobile communication terminal Provided is a method and apparatus for reducing the number of times of measurements in a mobile communication terminal. According to the method, a signal receive level (“Srxlev”) and a signal quality (“Squal”) of a serving cell in an idle state are measured.... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036667 | Method and devices for distributing service requests to service providers The invention relates to methods and devices for generating a distribution function. To that end preference vectors are defined for each instance something is distributed to from which elements are selected by means of an arbitration vector. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036668 | Method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell, wherein the method includes: a) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027685 | Terminal device, and in-zone cell checking method and cell re-selection method thereof A terminal device including a radio unit that adopts code division multiple access (cdma), which device omits unnecessary cell search by extending an in-zone cell monitoring cycle and a re-selection cycle in a case where under fixed conditions during cell search, wh... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8010118 | Systems and methods for making channel assignments to reduce interference and increase capacity of wireless networks There is disclosed a system and method for improving wireless system capacity by reducing collisions where the Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) is high in systems having a channel reuse of 1. By ordering the channel assignment in each of the interfering cells acco... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010117 | Method and system for dynamically merging wireless service sectors A method and system is disclosed for dynamically merging wireless service sectors in a wireless communication system. The method and system determines when certain conditions exist under which dynamically merging a plurality of wireless service sectors would advanta... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000713 | Apparatus and method for implementing detection of system information changes in universal mobile telecommunications systems In a mobile telecommunications system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device, the user equipment is arranged, when the user equipment re-configures itself to enter a new state or performs cell reselection, to read broadca... | 08/16/2011 |
| RE42605 | Method for improving RF spectrum efficiency with repeater backhauls A spectrally efficient wireless communication system that includes a plurality of base stations communicating indirectly with a plurality of wireless communications devices through a plurality of repeaters. The method can generally comprise communicating indirectly ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983684 | Methods and apparatus for determining RF transmitter placement via local coverage optimization Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the placement of RF components within an environment. The system operates by defining a spatial model associated with the environment, determining a first placement location of the RF device within the spatial model, d... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970407 | Method of optimising the capacity of a mobile telephony network for the creation of services with a predominantly downlink flow This invention relates to a method of optimising the capacity of at least one WCDMA type mobile telephony network (RT) to create at least one additional service (MBMS) for which the data flow is predominantly in the downlink direction, the method being characterized... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970408 | Wireless switched network An access point in a wireless network includes an external indication of the access point's proximity to another access point. The external indication can be a LED that blinks at a rate that is related to the proximity of the access point to the other access point. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7949340 | Method and system for applying wireless geolocation technology A system and method for determining the positioning of mobile-appliance location determining sensors in a mobile-appliance communications network by estimating the positioning accuracy of the sensors. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933605 | Method and system, with component kits for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925266 | Method for selecting wireless transmission site locations The coverage radii for a number of wireless transmission stations is calculated based on one or both of a link budget analysis and a propagation model. At least one coverage gap may then be identified within a given coverage area of a communications network, and loc... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917148 | Social musical media rating system and method for localized establishments A method and system are provided for enabling users in shared physical places to collaboratively rate the music playing within such places by using portable computing devices on their person. In one embodiment, the portable computing devices are mobile phones and ea... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917147 | Method of monitoring performance, performance monitoring system, and network performance monitoring apparatus A method of monitoring performance of a communications network supporting a plurality of communications devices comprises providing a number of the plurality of the communications terminals with respective software agents to make respective measurements in relation ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912469 | System and method for deployment of a wireless infrastructure A method is used for deployment of a wireless infrastructure. The method comprises deploying a plurality of access ports in a facility based on a layout that depends on a type of the facility. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter from at least one o... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904092 | Locally adjusted radio frequency coverage maps in wireless networks In one embodiment, a method for adjusting a radio-frequency coverage map. The method includes receiving calibration data comprising observed received signal strength values at one or more calibration points corresponding to a radio frequency transmitter, and identif... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894817 | Communication system using multiple wireless resources during a soft handoff In a wireless communications system operating according to CDMA or the like, when one terminal simultaneously performs communication using multiple wireless resources (e.g., multiple carriers), there was a problem that when it was attempted to guarantee network mobi... | 02/22/2011 |
