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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397803 | Method of dynamic transmit scheduling using channel quality feedback A method and system for dynamic rate switching via medium access channel layer signaling is disclosed, wherein data rates for high data rate channels are automatically shifted up or down based on a predetermined metric. In a preferred embodiment, data rates are auto... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394785 | Mobile communication system, radio base station, mobile station, channel transmission control method, and channel transmission control program In a mobile communication system 1 having a radio base station 2, and mobile stations 5, 6 configured to communicate with the base station 2 and segmented into a plurality of mobile station groups, the base station 5 provides a bro... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394826 | Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) providing quality-of-service (QoS) based unicast and multicast features A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) may include a plurality of mobile nodes each including a wireless communications device and a controller connected thereto. The controller may operate in accordance with a multi-layer protocol hierarchy. More particularly, at an upper... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392054 | Resource allocation scheduling method for a cellular communication system A resource allocation scheduling method for a cellular communication system that can avoid interference between cells. The method includes dividing a frequency band of a system into frames each having preferential allocation blocks and general allocation blocks on a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392014 | Measurement of channel characteristics in a communication system A communication system comprises a downlink data channel for the transmission of data packets from a primary station to a secondary station and uplink and downlink control channels. The secondary station measures one or more characteristics of the data channel and i... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391826 | Decoding method and apparatus A method of decoding is provided comprising processing iterations. In each processing iteration, there is a first Max-Log-MAP decoding operation giving rise to a systematic error due to the Max-Log approximation, and a first weighting operation to weight extrinsic i... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389088 | Method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same A method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same are provided. The method for controlling a power level of a signal to be transmitted to a remote Bluetooth device via a Bluetooth link, comprises: a local Bluetooth device for ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388855 | Method for discovering a broadcast multicast services (BCMCS) controller in a packet data network A method and a packet data network for providing broadcast/multicast services (BCMCS) to a mobile terminal (MT). The method receives at a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server from the MT, for requesting an IP address of a primary BCMCS controller that s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385951 | Methods of transmitting and signaling over a reverse link in wireless systems In a wireless communication system, there is a method of transmitting over a reverse link, where a medium access control layer multiplexes data from upper level layers onto transport channels that are used based on whether the user is in a scheduled transmission mod... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386306 | Multi-carrier communications methods and apparatus Methods and apparatus for implementing a multi-carrier communications system are described. Various approaches to a phased system deployment and system configurations resulting from different levels of deployment are described. In addition mobile node and methods of... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382745 | Method for allocating radio technical resources for data transmission in a radio communication network Resources which are to be related to a first interface between a terminal and a first network node and to a second interface between the first network node and a second network node are jointly determined during the allocation of radio technical resources for data t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383039 | Radio communication system having ID management apparatus, operation management apparatus and line controller A radio communication system includes ID control equipment, a operation control unit, line controller, pieces of base station, and radio terminals. In the radio communication system, environment information about identification information (IDs) etc. set for the rad... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383047 | Interference-resistant wireless audio system and the method thereof An interference-resistant method for a wireless audio system capable of transforming an audio signal into an RF signal includes transforming the audio signal into a PCM signal, appending a first control signal to the PCM signal, and modulating the PCM signal with th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379863 | Method and device for reducing scheduling delay in a digital communication system A method and device within a speech processing unit (SPU) for reducing scheduling delay between the SPU and a radio network node. Within the SPU, data packets are processed in a plurality of time slots that are subunits of frames. The device receives timing informat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379741 | Sub-carrier allocation method for reducing inter-cell interference in OFDM cellular environment A sub-carrier allocation method including selecting a number of cells having a strongest inter-cell interference among cells in a multiple-cell environment, and selecting mutually exclusive sub-carrier sets for each cell selected having the strongest interference. | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379742 | Multi-carrier communications with adaptive cluster configuration and switching A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating a... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379736 | Method and device for selectively controlling network selection in an area covered by at least two mobile communication networks The invention relates to methods and systems for selectively controlling network selection in an area covered by at least two mobile communication networks. According to the first method, the area which is to be covered is divided up into zones and a specific code i... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379746 | Method for transmitting power control information for HS-SCCH in mobile communication system A method for controlling transmission power of shared control channel for high speed downlink shared channel (HS-SCCH) in an UMTS system adopting a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) is disclosed in which a power offset value for power control of HS-SCCH is d... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379436 | Integrated cellular VoIP for call rerouting Integrated Cellular Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) systems (“ICV systems”) are described that redirect or reroute wireless network voice and data traffic to roaming subscribers via VoIP networks. The ICV system monitors roaming links of a first commun... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376099 | Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks A method for dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks. Communication information of wireless devices is gathered. A network topology formed by the wireless devices is derived according to the communication information. Switch channel indexes... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376102 | Erased frame and idle frame suppression in a wireless communications system A method of reducing loading on backhaul communications links in a wireless communications system suppresses a portion of the upward flow of frame information for idle and/or erased frames in certain situations, such as when multiple ones of such frames are successi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376427 | Methods and apparatus for resource management in integrated wireless data and voice communications Techniques for transmission control in a wireless communication system are described. In a system comprising a plurality of voice and data users, a threshold is set reflecting a minimum gain at which a data user will be allowed to transmit. At each of a plurality of... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372866 | Wireless communication method for avoiding mutual interference between wireless communication systems, and apparatus thereof The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for avoiding mutual interference between wireless communication systems. A measurement unit measures the strength of a signal received through a channel to be used in a transmission slot for a switching time of... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373178 | Method for providing guide broadcasting for video phone by means of fallback between speech mode and data mode Disclosed is a method for providing a guide broadcasting in the same way as that for a voice call without changing hardware in a mobile communication system supporting a video phone. In the method, a Mobile Station transmits a ‘SETUP’ message for requesting mult... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373150 | Method and system for allocating frequency resources based on multiple frequency reuse factors in cellular communication systems Disclosed are a system and a method of allocating frequency resource in a cellular communication system. The method includes the steps of dividing a predetermined time duration into at least two sub-time durations, and forming the frequency resource by applying mutu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373151 | Distributed dynamic channel allocation technique for multi-carrier CDMA cellular systems with mobile base stations A distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm for a multi-carrier CDMA cellular system having at least one mobile base station. The distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm uses channel power measurements from both the requesting mobile station and the ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373155 | Method for positioning mobile station and repeater thereof The present invention relates to a method for positioning a mobile station and a repeater thereof. Said method comprises: the mobile communication network, when receiving a positioning request from a mobile station, instructing repeaters to send auxiliary positionin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372834 | Method of controlling transmission power of retransmission packet and mobile terminal using the same The transmission power of a retransmission packet is controlled in the event of a packet retransmission request being sent from a receiving side in a wireless mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) transmission. In a me... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372837 | Incremental redundancy using two stage rate matching for automatic repeat request to obtain high speed transmission Methods and apparatus for processing a data stream for high speed wireless Transmission. At the transmission side, the methods and apparatus rate-match an encoded stream of combined information bits and corresponding cyclic redundancy bits in two stages. The first r... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373161 | Method and arrangement for power control A method for setting a power control level (600) in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of obtaining (620) transmission information from a wireless subscriber unit, and modifying a power control level and/or a communication c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372867 | Method and apparatus to provide channel access parameter Briefly, a method and apparatus to a channel access parameter to mobile units of a wireless communication network. The channel access parameter may be selected based on the probability of collisions between packets of the wireless network. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373136 | Method and system for data rating for wireless devices A method and system for rating a data communication session between a network and a wireless device is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method monitors a series of events, namely, a setup event, a begin event and an end event, which take place during a com... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372811 | Load balancing model for multilink frame relay A system and method for load balancing transmissions across a multilink frame relay connection is disclosed. A credit value is assigned to each bundle link in the multilink based on the amount of data transmitted over a set period of time. Frames or frame fragments ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369814 | Method of transmitting radio signals with polarization diversity and radiocommunication station and terminal for implementing the method Several versions of the radio signal are transmitted with different polarizations from a first station to a second station. The respective transmission powers of these versions of the radio signal are adaptively controlled according to measurements carried out by th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369770 | Method of assigning carrier frequencies in an optical transmission network To optimize the resources of an optical transmission network using wavelength division multiplexing, assigning carrier frequencies to signals to be transmitted consists in associating N sets of optical frequencies of the comb with N respective ranges of consecutive ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369852 | Methods for informing subscribers in a channelized network of adjacent sites A method for informing a mobile device of adjacent sites in a RF communication system is disclosed. The RF communication system comprises a first network and a second network. At a site in the second network of the RF communication system, information is maintained ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369517 | Method for downloading data in a radio communications system According to one aspect of the invention, in a radio communications system comprising at least one base station (BS1, BS2) provided with means for transmitting data via a communication link (BCCH; V), wherein the data is divided into a plurality of dat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369526 | Flexible transport system including support for bilateral user access One aspect of the present invention is a method for the wireless transmission of information from one or more antennas to one or more separate users. The method comprises processing information to produce transmission vectors that minimize simultaneous interference ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369528 | Method and system to send SMS messages in a hybrid network Embodiments of a method and system are disclosed to pass SMS messages from a mobile operating in a CDMA Radio Access Network to a Hybrid MSC, and to route the SMS message from the Hybrid MSC to a GSM SMS-C in the Core network, the hybrid wireless network having at l... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369549 | Adaptive rate prioritizing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve measuring a quality of a transmission from a remote location, identifying a data rate as a function of the measured quality, the identified data rate being capable of... | 05/06/2008 |
