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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073449 | Wireless macro cell overlay Overlaying a Wireless Macro Cell architecture on a Micro Cell network. WLAN MAC Address Translation (WMAT) is used to translate BSSIDs from the BSSID used to initialize a radio in an access node and identify communications between the radio in the access node and a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8036671 | Multi-cellular load dependent scheduling The present invention relates to a scheduler selector and a method for improving network quality by controlling intercellular interference of a multi-cellular mobile radio communication network. The radio communication traffic is controlled by a user traffic schedul... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014781 | Intra-cell common reuse for a wireless communications system To avoid or reduce intra-cell interference, each sector of a cell is associated with a sector-specific set of system resources (e.g., subbands) and at least one non-overlapping common set of system resources. Each common set for each sector includes system resources... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7945268 | Apparatus and method for IDcell allocation in a broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and a method for allocating IDcells in a wireless communication system are provided, in which an initial IDcell allocation is performed by allocating entire sectors to elements of an N×M IDcell matrix, a sector pair with the highest proximity is select... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7532890 | Content-based notification and user-transparent pull operation for simulated push transmission of wireless email Exemplary system, method, software and apparatus embodiments provide for creating a content-based notification for a mobile device, as a simulated push operation, for devices which do not have push capability. The system comprises a database, a server, and may also ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7483702 | Cell reselection for improving network interconnection This invention describes a new methodology for a cell reselection by a mobile station (MS) for improving network interconnection and interoperability in a limited mobile access environment. The invention is applicable to any kind of networks and their interconnectio... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7440758 | Cell planning methods and apparatus, and networks configured based on same Coverage areas for wireless networks are divided into a plurality of cells that are arranged in rows. Channel frequencies are assigned to cell sectors and associated with respective antenna axes. The antenna axes of adjacent rows are alternatingly rotated, thereby r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437178 | Cell reselection method for receiving packet data in a mobile communication system supporting MBMS A method for selecting a cell by a user equipment (UE) to receive a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service in a mobile communication system which supports the MBMS service with different frequency allocations (FAs) in the same area. In the method, a r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433708 | Variable bandwidth in a communication system A method, device, and system that use narrowband channels to provide higher re-use without multiplying the operator spectrum requirement. If a communication system supports variable carrier bandwidth channels, the narrow channel capacity can be divided among adjacen... | 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 |
| 7403799 | Base station and call search method used for the same In a base station providing a large-distance service area (large area) such as a mobile communication system WLL of the CDMA method, the time required for performing call search (path search) is reduced so as to reduce the call connection time. When performing a pat... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7369860 | Data protection for position-dependent services The invention relates to a privacy function check which is efficient in terms of network load, and is carried out by means of a method for requesting the agreement of a user of a mobile radio terminal of a mobile radio network, relating to the transmission of the po... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352698 | Communications system, communications apparatus, communications terminal and communications method According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more termin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349439 | Ultra-wideband communication systems and methods Systems and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one ultra-wideband communication method, a communication channel is divided into a plurality of non-overlapping sub-channels by dividing a single serial message intended for an ultra-wideband commu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343173 | Tiered wireless, multi-modal access system and method A wireless, multi-modal access device and system adapted to integrate a number of communications networks operating in differing communication modes to facilitate transfer of communication links during a communication session to promote efficient use of the communic... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7321771 | Control method capable of reducing call dropped rate of mobile station in wireless communication system, control circuit and mobile station thereof A control method, capable of reducing the call dropped rate of a mobile station in a wireless communication system, includes monitoring receiving power levels of a plurality of neighbor cells of the wireless communication system according to an information of a serv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317917 | Mobile station connection management utilizing suitable parameter information A method and apparatus managing a list of base stations (“BSs”) for which a mobile station (“MS”) can establish an optimal communications channel are disclosed. In accordance with the teachings disclosed herein, a MS acquires suitable parameter information (... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7298761 | Link path searching and maintaining method for a bluetooth scatternet A link path search and maintain method for establishing link search table between two bluetooth devices such that the devices can transfer data to/from others device located in a bluetooth scatternet. When initialization of a slave bluetooth device, the new member i... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299068 | Wireless sensor network for monitoring one or more selected environmental characteristics A wireless sensor network for monitoring one or more selected environmental characteristics. Multiple wireless signal transceivers, disposed in respective portions of a selected environment, respond to one or more wireless beacon signals by selectively collecting, p... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295844 | System and method for routing communications based on wireless communication link quality A method for routing communications at a mobile station includes determining, at a mobile station, one or more routing metrics that are associated with each of a number of communication paths that couple the mobile station and a destination device. At least one of t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292862 | Base station apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and communication method An assignment section 101 determines communication resource assignment to communication terminals based on a transmission rate at which communication is possible for each subcarrier of each communication terminal, and instructs a buffer section 102 to ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286801 | Maintaining and searching sets of cells in a wireless communication system For cell measurement, a wireless device categorizes cells whose identities are known to the device into multiple sets. The wireless device may obtain these cells from the system via signaling and/or detect these cells via searches. Different sets of cells may be ass... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286827 | Communique system for multicasting in cellular communication networks The communiqué system for cellular communication networks operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide communiqué communication services to subscribers. The communiqué can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bidirectional (interactive) in nature... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286826 | Method for providing a multicast service using a carrier-to-interference ratio in a hierarchical cell structure A method for providing a multicast service from a macrocell or a microcell to a mobile station in a mobile communication system having a hierarchical cell structure in which a given area is divided into at least one macrocell and at least one microcell overlapping w... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283815 | Method for maximizing gain of received signal in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service system A method for soft-combining MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service) data in an asynchronous mobile communication system including a user equipment (UE) and a radio network controller (RNC), wherein the system provides an MBMS service. In the method, the RNC me... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280556 | Method of transferring signals between two separate send/receive interfaces, the method including processing of the signals A method of transferring information signals between two separate send/receive interfaces which are part of the same communication device includes processing of the signals. The two interfaces use, at least for information data useful to users, referred to as user d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277729 | Base station apparatus and terminal apparatus A base station apparatus corresponding to a first base station apparatus of base station apparatuses and connected to terminal apparatuses, first base station apparatus transmitting and receiving first packets with respect to a second base station apparatus correspo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272395 | Method for setting parameters of a cellular radio network, in particular for access and handover A method and a system for setting parameters of a cellular radio network, like a GSM network, in particular for access and handover, wherein the parameters are dynamically adjusted in accordance with measured signal level and quality statistics. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260397 | Reconfiguration of a mobile telecommunications network element The present invention discloses a method and a system for reconfiguring a mobile telecommunications network. In the method network elements to be reconfigured are arranged into groups according to a grouping parameter. A priority value is assigned to the groups. The... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260078 | Method and system for providing management protocol mediation in wireless communications networks A system for providing management protocol mediation between wireless networks includes a first wireless network (10) operable to communicate with a mobile station (12) over a wireless interface (48). The system also includes a second wireless n... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260141 | Integrated beamformer/modem architecture A transceiver employing a steerable phased-array antenna includes a modem architecture in which signals from each antenna element in the array are independently processed down to the individual baseband channel level, and digital beamforming is performed at baseband... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246045 | System and method for efficiently visualizing and comparing communication network system performance A method for visualizing and efficiently making comparisons of communication system performance utilizing predicted performance, measured performance, or other performance data sets is described. A system permits visualizing the comparisons of system performance dat... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239618 | Single phase local mobility scheme for wireless access to packet-based networks Local mobility within a subnet is supported by classifying wireless base stations, and the routers used to forward packets to those base stations, within defined domains. Domains are defined to incorporate a subnet having a plurality of base stations. Base stations ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236789 | Channel rate and physical channel selection in wireless communications networks In the method for selecting a channel rate, link quality between the serving portion of the network and a mobile station is determined from at least one signal strength measurement. A channel rate is then selected based on the determined link quality. Also, a physic... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231224 | Cable having embedded access points A cable has miniaturized, low-cost, highly-integrated wireless network access points embedded in the cable at periodic intervals along the length of the cable. Power conductors that run the length of the cable supply each of the access points with electrical power. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228135 | Method for cellular communications The invention relates to cellular communications systems. In order to enhance an efficiency of a cellular communications system a file in electronic form with fragments of a digital geographical map of the vicinity is preliminarily introduced into a control center o... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221950 | Auto sensing home base station for mobile telephone with remote answering capabilities The present invention discloses in one embodiment a mobile telephone capable of communicating with a home base station through radio signals. The mobile telephone registers with a home base station before beginning to communicate with the home base station. The home... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206584 | Methods of determining cells for deletion in network design A method of determining cells for deletion in a network design, in which the network is simulated to generate statistics for each cell of a given group of cells. The statistics of each cell are evaluated based on a given ranking criteria. Based on the evaluation, th... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7194083 | System and method for interfacing plain old telephone system (POTS) devices with cellular networks A system and method for interfacing plain old telephone system (PATS) devices with a cellular network is presented. In a broad sense, the system includes an interface that bridges the POTS devices with the cellular network. The interface is configured to convert POT... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187941 | Secure network-routed voice processing Systems and methods are provided for routing voice communications through a mobile communication system having a self-contained infrastructure, such as a two-way radio communication system. The voice communications are transmitted as digitized voice packets over rad... | 03/06/2007 |
