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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7848758 | Dynamic allocation of carrier frequencies in wireless wide area networks Methods and systems are provided for dynamic allocation of carrier frequencies in wireless wide area networks (WWANs). A first base station among a plurality of base stations in a WWAN determines that a level of load in a wireless coverage area exceeds a load thresh... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844278 | Systems and methods for wireless communications with a heavily-loaded wireless network Methods and apparatus for congestion mitigation in wireless communication networks are provided. The congestion mitigation can include assignment of a new user class, a mobile station identifier, a mobile station identifier and a reserved traffic channel and/or an a... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7769389 | Method and system for predictive resource management in a wireless network An access point for a wireless network, such as a base transceiver station, might use a variety of different methods to allocate its resources among mobile stations. For example, the access point might vary the way it allocates available bandwidth among the mobile s... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7725110 | Dynamically managing and reconfiguring wireless mesh networks A wireless network with multiple subscriber systems in a lobe pool may operate by determining a state of the wireless network, identifying a new condition, the new condition including a new demand condition or a new network health condition, determining whether the ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715847 | Use of decremental assignments Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate dynamically assigning system resources in a wireless network environment by detecting a resource conflict between an existing resource assignment to one or more existing user devices and a new resource assignment for... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706805 | Delivery of time-sensitive data in a wireless network Embodiments of the invention include a method and software for pre-allocating bandwidth for time-sensitive data such as voice data, for allocating some of the pre-allocated bandwidth to calls, and for timely delivery of frames that include time-sensitive data such a... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702337 | Method and system for providing quick service access Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving quick access services. For example, a mobile terminal may receive a data stream containing a quick access service of a particular type. The quick access service may have a fixed Packet Identificatio... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693526 | Enhanced load based wireless call admission control In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring utilization of an access medium relative to one or more access classes, receiving a QoS request. The QoS request identifies an access class. The method further includes computing a first allocation of an access medium ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689228 | Method and apparatus for providing in-band wireless backhaul Various embodiments are described to address the need for providing wireless backhaul that may reduce operator startup costs while avoiding some of the drawbacks present in the prior art approaches. Generally expressed, the wireless network equipment (WNE) (121 | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689227 | Method and apparatus for hashing over multiple frequency bands in a communication system Method and apparatus for hashing mobile stations to frequencies in a communication system. The method uses two-level hashing to assign a mobile station first to frequency band and then to a specific frequency within the frequency band. Embodiments allow for weights ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676231 | Methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information Embodiments of methods and apparatus for selecting communication channels based on channel load information are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7650152 | 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... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7627324 | Interference protection for wireless office systems A system, method and apparatus to reduce or eliminate interference in a first network in the event that a failure that occurs in a second network. The method, system and apparatus provide an added level of first network interference protection in a second network en... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603126 | Method and apparatus for avoiding simultaneous service origination and paging in a group communication network A method and apparatus for avoiding simultaneous service origination and paging in a mobile operating in a group communication network provides for receiving a floor-control request, e.g., in short data burst (SDB) form, from a source communication device for initia... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599697 | Method for backup connection and an electronic device using the method The invention relates to a method for establishing an at least partially wireless data transfer connection between a remote application and a controlling application. The wireless connection is implemented by a wireless terminal connected to the remote application. ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596380 | Changing serving radio network controller for mobile terminal supporting multimedia broadcast services The present invention relates to transmitting information regarding a point-to-multipoint service a mobile terminal has joined a target radio network controller (TRNC) during SRNS Relocation. A serving radio network controller (SRNC) initiates the relocation by tran... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7583971 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation to transmit a wireless protocol across a code division multiple access (CDMA) radio link A base station includes a wireless transceiver for establishing a communication session over a first digital communication path, and a bandwidth management module is connected to the wireless transceiver for allocating at least one code channel within the at least o... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580715 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation to transmit a wireless protocol across a code division multiple access (CDMA) radio link A code division multiple access (CDMA) user device includes a CDMA transceiver, and a controller connected to the CDMA transceiver for establishing a communication session with a base station. The communication session includes a plurality of layers including a phys... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7565151 | System and method for adaptive assignment of unique words in a communication system A method and system for assigning unique words in an SDMA (spatial division multiple access) communication system is provided. A network management system logically arranges cell stations into clusters of stations, and monitors for a heavy traffic condition. Respons... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558580 | Apparatus and method for antenna verification of closed loop mode transmit diversity Disclosed is a method for performing a closed loop mode transmit diversity antenna verification in a mobile communication terminal, the method including estimating an uplink error rate by comparing an antenna complex vector, which is estimated by antenna verificatio... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558581 | Apparatus and method for resetting physical channel A wireless communication system in which a communication apparatus performs a packet communication with a radio network controller through a base transceiver station stores identification information about a communication line in a first state in which communication... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7539498 | System and method for dynamically allocating data rates and channels to clients in a wireless network Disclosed is a system, apparatus, and method for dynamically allocating wireless channels in a wireless network. At least two client devices are present in the wireless network. Each client device is capable of transceiving wireless data over a wireless channel. In ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536187 | Supporting communication sessions at a mobile node Supporting communication sessions at a mobile node includes determining at a mobile node an address for one or more interior network elements of a network system. A interior network element is distinct from an edge network element of the network system, and is opera... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7529548 | Method and system for adapting a wireless link to achieve a desired channel quality Adapting a wireless communications link between a transmitter and a receiver involves reducing the RF bandwidth of an uplink communications channel to achieve a desired channel quality. The RF bandwidth of the uplink communications channel is reduced when the desire... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7489933 | Method of managing processing in a mobile radio system A method of managing processing resources in a mobile radio system in which a first entity manages processing resources provided in a separate second entity, in which method: the second entity signals to the first entity a resource... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486955 | Electronic device with antenna for wireless communication An electronic device comprises an antenna, a first wireless communication module coupled to the antenna, which is complied with a first communication protocol, a second wireless communication module coupled to the antenna, which is complied with a second communicati... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477900 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation to transmit a wireless protocol across a code division multiple access (CDMA) radio link A method for operating a CDMA user device includes establishing a communication session with a base station. The communication session includes a plurality of layers including a physical layer. A service configuration is negotiated with the base station, and the use... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7450948 | Method and apparatus for use in provisioning resources for a backhaul link Determining the amount of resources that needs to be provisioned for a wired backhaul link of a wireless network using a probabilistic approach that makes the determination based at least in part on the type of coding scheme selection algorithm used to encode data t... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447505 | System and method for coexistence in wireless networks A computing arrangement may include a first radio transceiver operating in accordance with a first communication protocol using a frequency band and a second radio transceiver operating in accordance with a second communication protocol using the frequency band. An ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443817 | Automatic wireless connection selection The present invention relates to wireless communications systems, and in particular the selection of one or more available wireless connections suitable for use with a desired service or set of services. The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for s... | 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 |
| 7440759 | System and method for dynamic channel allocation in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access network A system and method for dynamically allocating channels in a wireless communication system including multiple sub-channels and multiple frame cells, each of the sub-channels being an assembly including a preset number of sub-frequency bands divided from an overall f... | 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 |
| 7440777 | Multi-transceiver system with MIMO and beam-forming capability A system and method for communicating with a second communication system utilizing a plurality of antennas. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining whether communicating with the second communication system utilizing a plurality of antennas... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436810 | Determination of wireless link quality for routing as a function of predicted delivery ratio Packet signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values and historical delivery ratio information are combined to predict a delivery ratio for a communication link. Since packet SNR may be available with every received packet on the link, link SNR level is both accurate and easy ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437166 | Reducing shared downlink radio channel interference by transmitting to multiple mobiles using multiple antenna beams A radio base station includes multiple antennas associated with a cell. Multiple mobile radios are selected to receive transmissions over a shared radio channel during a predetermined time interval. Information is transmitted over the shared radio channel to multipl... | 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 |
| 7436799 | Method for minimizing expenditures associated with optimized backhaul networks The invention includes a method for determining an expenditure associated with a network. A method includes obtaining network information associated with a portion of a network, categorizing each of a respective plurality of cells as one of an aggregated cell and a ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436788 | Dynamic frequency spectrum re-allocation A method of dynamically re-allocating a frequency spectrum to a plurality of radio networks (RNs; 16) in accordance with a predefined spectrum allocation scheme is described. A spectrum resource is previously allocated to each RN (16) or group of RNs (... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
