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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363010 | Power control for intermittently active data channels in a wireless communication system Techniques for controlling transmit power for a data transmission sent on multiple data channels, which may be intermittently active, are described. Each data channel is monitored for activity (e.g., based on an error correction code, received signaling information,... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362725 | Method and apparatus for sharing uplink state flag (USF) with multiple uplink temporary block flows (TBFs) A method and an apparatus are described for increasing the flexibility of uplink resource allocation for a mobile station (MS) (100), that is backwards compatible with earlier standards that provide only a single data flow per MS. The method includes steps of... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362727 | Telecommunications routing Routing of packets is controlled in a connectionless routing protocol 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 swit... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363036 | Procedure for registering a new subscriber in a radio system through routers On registration of a new subscriber in a radio system with a central system and a plurality of subscribers the new subscriber first sends a search telegram to all the subscribers that it can reach in its radio range and selects from the subscribers that respond a fi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363058 | Wireless point multipoint system A patch array antenna includes a planar base on which is defined a ground plane and feed positions that are electrically isolated from the ground plane. A plurality of patch elements are configured to resonate over a predetermined frequency range. Each patch element... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359399 | CDMA path protection method based on path protection information A path protection method for a CDMA reception apparatus is disclosed, which obtains correlation value levels while shifting the despreading timing of reception data little by little, searches for optimal reception timings, outputs a plurality of finger path timings,... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359360 | Communication system supporting wireless communication of packet data and method and arrangement relating thereto A communication system supporting communication of packet data. It comprises a core network, which includes a number of packet data support nodes, a number of gateway nodes for communication with external packet data networks, and a number of radio networks. Each ra... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359710 | Satellite TV derivative programming via mobile phone A wireless telephony network provides satellite TV derivative program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony network. The wireless telephony network receives satellite T... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359726 | Push-to-talk signaling and media inter-working architecture An inter-working network for facilitating dispatch communications between subscribers of disparate dispatch networks includes core inter-working components and regional inter-working components. The core inter-working components include a network management system, ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359365 | Hybrid CDM/TDM signaling for packet acknowledgment method and apparatus A common signaling channel (CSC) conveys signaling information units (SIUs) from a base station (BS) to each of a multiplicity (e.g., 1200) of different mobile stations (MSs). Implicit correspondence between particular CSC and data frames is facilitated by basing CS... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359674 | Content distribution & communication system for enhancing service distribution in short range radio environment A system for propagating information among wireless communication devices in an efficient manner. More specifically, the invention involves regulating the behavior of a wireless communication device (WCD) between a primarily passive mode where client or slave availa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359349 | Base station, radio resource control equipment, mobile station, communication system, and communication method A base station includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a quantity of stored packets from a mobile station, the quantity of stored packets being stored in a buffer for storing the packets transmitted by the mobile station; a radio resource controller for allocati... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359348 | Wireless communications system A wireless communications system for enabling a base station unit and a plurality of customer premises units to wirelessly communicate data at high efficiency by putting communications on standby for each unit of traffic data for which a communications request occur... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359351 | Wireless audio/video equipment and channel selecting method thereof An A/V equipment and a channel selecting method are disclosed, wherein the A/V equipment forms a wireless network by using information of each channel obtained by scanning each channel of a monitoring channel set to compute a predetermined parameter, and comparing t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359731 | Architecture to facilitate interoperability and inter-working of push to talk technologies An inter-working network includes a plurality of interfaces for facilitating communications with a plurality of dispatch networks, a proxy, a signaling bridge, a signaling controller and a signaling gateway. The interfaces include a border gateway that manages commu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359358 | Method and apparatus for routing data A method of operating a wireless network with a base station and a plurality of outstations comprises transmitting a broadcast signal from the base station and in response to reception of the broadcast signal, transmitting an acknowledgement signal from an outstatio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359696 | Communication apparatus, portable terminal and communication control program A communication apparatus, including: an identification information request receiver configured to conduct wireless communication a plurality of times without interruption with a portable device; a response transmitter configured to send a response signal including ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359730 | Method and apparatus for reducing interference associated with wireless communication The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for reducing interference associated with wireless communication in an area having sensitive electronic equipment. A wireless communications device receives, from an access point, a signal having a signal str... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355998 | Support for multiple access point switched beam antennas A plurality of virtual wireless networks are defined. Each of the plurality of virtual wireless networks has a different set of requirements. A node is capable of producing a plurality of antenna beams or patterns. Each virtual wireless network is associated with a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355999 | Method and apparatus for carrying packetized voice and data in wireless communication networks A method and apparatus for reducing transmission delay in a wireless communication system that carries packetized voice and data information. Interruptions in the traffic channels cause loss of synchronization between a header compressor and a header decompressor. R... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355994 | CDMA messaging between wireless LAN access points A method for mobile communication includes arranging a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a mobile station, and linking the access points to one another over a communication medium. The access points e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356000 | Method and apparatus for reducing call setup delay Various embodiments are described herein to address the need for reducing call setup delays with respect to supplemental channels. Modifications to channel assignment messaging (104), such as an enhanced ECAM, and service connection messaging (108), su... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355962 | Multi-carrier communications with group-based subcarrier allocation A method and apparatus for subcarrier selection for systems is described. In one embodiment, a method for subcarrier selection for a system employing orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) comprises partitioning subcarriers into groups of at least one... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356007 | CDMA receiver and method of judging TFCI candidates of the same In a CDMA receiver, the TFCI decoding error is reduced. When the difference between TFCI correlation values is small and hence TFCI candidates are less credible, data is decoded using transport format information according to a plurality of TFCI having a high TFCI c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356068 | Frequency hopping sequence generator A frequency hopping sequence generator using a single binary sequence generator adopted for a multi-group frequency hopping frequency division multiple access (FH-FDMA) communication system, includes one binary sequence generator for generating consecutive binary se... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355992 | Relay for extended range point-to-point wireless packetized data communication system A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of a relay-based, extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a data-reception site from a data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to the data-... | 04/08/2008 |
| RE40204 | Portable electronic terminal apparatus having a plurality of displays A portable electronic terminal apparatus includes a main body, an information input mechanism, a plurality of displays, a communications mechanism, and a flip panel. The main body has a hollow section. The information input mechanism inputs various kinds of informat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352767 | Multicarrier wireless data communication method and apparatus, and transmission frame format therefor Provided are a wireless data communication apparatus and a method using a multicarrier, and a transmission frame format therefore, wherein through the wireless data communication method, a plurality of stations can transmit and receive burst data to and from a net a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353030 | Systems and methods for handovers between base radios A system and method for reducing power consumption and interference in a communications system that has multiple base radios. A base radio controller assigns priorities to the base radios in the system. When higher priority base radios have excess capacity, intracel... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352709 | Communication terminal and communication system A communication system including a base station and a communication terminal transmitting/receiving data to/from this base station, in which the base station transmits downlink packet data to the communication terminal and receives an information signal related to t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352722 | Mitigation of link imbalance in a wireless communication system Techniques to mitigate the effects of link imbalance for the uplink between a terminal (or UE) and multiple base stations (or Node Bs). In one aspect, the serving base station (i.e., the one designated to transmit packet data to the terminal) monitors the uplink rec... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352716 | Wireless network having IEEE802.11h-incompliant terminal wireless device communicating with IEEE802.11h-compliant base wireless device In a wireless network structure which includes a wireless LAN device having a base station function (host device) which is compliant with IEEE802.11h and at least one wireless LAN device having a terminal function (slave device) which is not compliant with IEEE802.1... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352730 | Joint channel and noise variance estimation in a wideband OFDM system A method and system for use in a wireless-local-area network (WLAN), for simultaneously estimating the unknown multi-path channel and noise characteristics and using the channel and noise estimates to improve system performance in the presence of narrowband interfer... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353036 | Push-to-talk reverse channel establishment A push-to-talk (PTT) radio resource controller (441) establishes a “reverse” channel using a forward channel resource request module (461), a reverse channel resource request module (463), an allocation rules module (470) that is coup... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349333 | Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell resources Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349338 | Scheduler and method for scheduling transmissions in a communication network A scheduler and a method for scheduling transmissions to a plurality of users in a communication network assigns a higher target minimum throughput for receiving a next transmission to a user based on a quality of service (QoS) class of the user. A token count that ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349347 | ASK communication device An ASK communication device includes a master station and slave stations connected to the master station through a bus line. The master station includes a transmission unit for ASK-modulating a carrier signal outputted from an oscillation circuit owned thereby and o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349425 | Method and apparatus for overhead messaging in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for providing a broadcast system parameter message in a wireless communication system supporting a broadcast service. In one embodiment, the message identifies a service option number corresponding to a set of broadcast parameters. In an alterna... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349696 | Apparatus and methods of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures with activation times in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment The details of an apparatus and methods of handling simultaneous universal terrestrial radio access network radio resource control procedures with activation times in a universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. According to one ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349368 | Data rate change notification for a communication system In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center changes a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from a mobile station and so on to a database or a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from the database to the mobile station a... | 03/25/2008 |
