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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7457626 | Virtual private network structure reuse for mobile computing devices A method and mobile node are disclosed that facilitate persisting virtual private network structures across multiple network addresses assigned to the mobile node. The method includes initially setting up a virtual private network tunnel between a mobile node and a ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457625 | Wirelessly-linked, distributed resource control to support wireless communication in non-exclusive spectrum Wirelessly-linked, distributed resource control (RCS1-RCSn, RCSB, RCC, ARM) supports a wireless communication system (50) for operation in non-exclusive spectrum (24-29). An available resource map (ARM) contains resource availability info... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454212 | OFDMA with adaptive subcarrier-cluster configuration and selective loading A method and apparatus for subcarrier selection for systems is described. In one embodiment, the system employs orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). In one embodiment, a method for subcarrier selection comprises each of multiple subscribers measuri... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447504 | HARQ process restriction and transmission of non-scheduled control data via uplink channels The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at le... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443881 | Method and apparatus for interfacing synchronous core network with asynchronous radio network A method and apparatus for interfacing a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network in a next-generation mobile telecommunications system is disclosed. The method for mapping a message in order to interface a synchronous core network with an asynchr... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443816 | Packet transmission method, base station and mobile station A packet transmission method in which packets are transmitted between a base station and a mobile station communicating with the base station includes the steps of: recognizing the size of each of the packets to be transmitted; determining a transmission rate for ea... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443818 | Method, apparatus and system of multiple-input-multiple-output wireless communication Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system for selectively modulating a data frame of a signal using either a frequency-multiplexing modulation method or a spatial-multiplexing modulation method based on a predetermined criterion. | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444169 | Wireless base station apparatus and wireless communication control method A wireless base station apparatus (100) used in a wireless communications system includes a statistical processing unit (140) that performs statistical processing on downlink radio quality information reported from a wireless communications terminal de... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440728 | Use of separate control channel to mitigate interference problems in wireless networking Described is a system and method for transporting interference-related control data and other information between nodes in a wireless network, using a control channel that is distinct from a content channel used to transport content. The control channel may be a dif... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440761 | Communication relay method and device A wireless communication system including a wireless relay station storing a priority table in which identifiers of the communications that are relayed with higher priority are registered, a wireless relay device r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437170 | System and method for efficient push-to-talk communications A system and method are provided for efficient push-to-talk (PTT) communications in a cellular network of wireless telephones. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a PTT session initiation in a cellular wireless telephone network; identifying a plurality of ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437164 | Soft handoff for reverse link in a wireless communication system with frequency reuse For soft handoff on the reverse link with restrictive reuse, a wireless terminal searches for pilots transmitted by sectors in a wireless system, measures the detected pilots, selects a serving sector (e.g., the strongest received sector), and identifies non-serving... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437153 | Apparatus and method for taking measurements in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment A method and apparatus for taking measurements in a mobile telecommunications system are disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The method comprises, at the user equipment device, receiving a measur... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437165 | Method of applying hashing algorithms in a wireless communication system A method of wireless communication. The method includes the step of broadcasting a message, such as channel list message, for example. The broadcasting message lists each available carrier for each available frequency band in the wireless communication spectrum—e.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436811 | Multicasting data method in a radio communication system The present invention provides a method for receiving broadcast data in a system where broadcast data is transmitted on a plurality of frequencies. A user device monitors (302) a first frequency (108) for broadcast data to be transmitted on the first f... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436809 | Communicating system, communicating method, base station, and mobile station A communicating system is disclosed. The communicating system has a base station and a plurality of mobile stations that radio-communicate through an uplink channel and a downlink channel with frames each of which is composed of a plurality of time divided slots, ea... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433683 | System for fast macrodiversity switching in mobile wireless networks Fast macrodiversity switching (FMS) dynamically switches radio links used for traffic and control channels for a mobile station among a number of base transceiver stations (BTS) without changing the radio resource, that is, using the same frequency and time slot com... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433692 | Method for dimensioning a mobile telecommunications network A method for assessing the characteristics obtainable in a network for mobile telecommunications apparatuses suitable for managing calls with both data traffic and/or voice and data traffic. On the basis of the performance requested for the quantity and characterist... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433347 | Broadcast superframe with variable reuse and interference levels for a radio communications system A method and apparatus are provided to enhance the efficiency of reuse of a broadcast channel. In one embodiment, the invention includes sending a first burst of a broadcast channel from a broadcast channel radio subject to a first reuse factor, and sending a second... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433335 | Method for selecting an access channel or a traffic channel for data transmission The present invention may provide a method of communication that includes selecting at least one access channel for transmission of data based on a channel condition. The present invention may also provide a method of communication that includes receiving data over ... | 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 |
| 7433773 | Vehicle on-board unit A vehicle on-board unit comprises a short range wireless broadcasting section, a vehicle identifier receiving section, a vehicle identifier counting section and a communication congestion determining section. The short range wireless broadcasting section is configur... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433337 | Node B and RNC actions during a serving HSDPA cell change A system and method in accordance with the present invention reduce the amount of data that is stalled in a source Node B after a serving HS-DSCH cell change in a communication system that includes a serving RNC and at least one Node B. In a first embodiment, the RN... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433700 | Strategies for peer-to-peer instant messaging Strategies are described for establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) direct coupling channel between two user devices at the commencement of an Instant Messaging (IM) conversation. Provisions are described for gracefully switching to a switchboard coupling channel when th... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433460 | Methods of controlling link quality and transmit power in communication networks A method of controlling link transmission parameters of a communication flow in a network caches one or more network parameters at the end of a first communication flow for an elapsed time, and adjusts the network parameters for controlling link quality and transmit... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430420 | Cell selection and inter-frequency handover The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a communications system that includes a mobile wireless device, a first and a second base station and a radio network controller. The communications system may allocate frequency bands to users... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430189 | Methods and devices for determining the adjacency of access points in a wireless network The adjacency of access points in a wireless, local area network is used to determine the existence of common overlapping access point coverage areas and to determine maximum distances between access points. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| RE40518 | Channel assignment method for a base station in a mobile communication system There is disclosed a method for performing channel assignment in a base station for a mobile communication system. Upon receipt of a request for assigning a channel to a mobile station, a base station transceiver system (BTS) generates a connect message including ch... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428228 | Method and apparatus for detecting active downlink channelization codes in a TD-CDMA mobile communication system A method and apparatus in a UE for detecting active channelization codes including channelization codes used by other UEs, which are different from at least one channelization code assigned to the UE, for transmission/reception to/from a Node B in an assigned time s... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428277 | Method of determining an acquisition indicator bit in a communication system A method of determining an acquisition indicator bit AIs at a receiver in a communication system which includes receiving multiplexed acquisition indicator bits y=B×AI+n, where B is the signature matrix known at both base station and UE, AI is all the ac... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428225 | Wireless communication system and wireless communication method A wireless communication system consisting of a base station and a plurality of mobile stations capable of conducting wireless communication with the base station. Each mobile station has a press button which accepts an order issued by an operator to execute a reque... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426386 | Beam laydown for hopped satellite downlink with adaptable duty cycle A power gated variable hop cycle beam laydown (700) manifests itself as first cells (C, D) supported by a first hop cycle, second cells (G, H) supported by a second hop cycle, and transition cells (E, F) supported by a transition hop cycle. The transition hop... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426201 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a high speed-shared control channel in a high speed downlink packet access communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving an HS-SCCH in an HSDPA communication system including an HS-DSCH shared among a plurality of UEs and spread with a plurality of channelization codes, and the HS-SCCH for transmitting control information related with... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426391 | Apparatus and method for reducing message collision between mobile stations simultaneously accessing a base station in a CDMA cellular communications system Collisions between messages simultaneously transmitted by multiple spread-spectrum transmitters are reduced by distributing the transmissions over the available resources of the receiver. Each mobile station in a CDMA system uses one or more randomization methods to... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426196 | Method and apparatus for managing packet data resources An apparatus and a method for managing resources for efficient packet data transmission. More specifically, there is provided a method for allocating transmission resources in a base station comprising determining a largest supportable packet size for a highest prio... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423997 | Group scheduling in wireless communication systems A wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in frames comprising multiple sub-frames, including grouping a terminal in first and second groups, assigning the first and second groups to less than all sub-frames in a frame, assign... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423991 | Apparatus and method for allocating subchannels adaptively according to frequency reuse rates in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system An apparatus and method for adaptively allocating subchannels according to frequency reuse rates in an OFDMA system are provided. To allocate one or more subchannels to one or more MSs, information related to an optimum FRF and a modulation scheme is received from t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424299 | System and method for slot allocation with reduced need for measurement In a communication system in which mobile terminals may roam throughout an area with a plurality of base stations with overlapping coverages and wherein the base stations employ multiplexed slots all in the same frequency range, a system and method for allocating sl... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424542 | Software method for maintaining connectivity between applications during communications by mobile computer terminals operable in wireless networks A method of maintaining connectivity and synchronization of data from a first application resident in a first mobile computer to a second application resident in a second computer wherein the data is transmitted over a data communications network including a plurali... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423988 | Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. A communications system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to communicate with ... | 09/09/2008 |
