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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7215973 | Apparatus for adjusting channel interference between access points in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215966 | System and method for determining location of a device in a wireless communication network A system and method for message exchanges in a wireless communication network which minimize network overhead and offers fast determination of Coordinates of a device. A system and method controls a node to exchange small, structured messages with one or more refere... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215926 | Enhanced mode technique for growing mesh networks A wireless device and method provides for adding nodes to a wireless mesh network by adjusting an antenna sensitivity pattern of one or more nodes in the wireless mesh network to exhibit spatial selectivity. The method transmits a query, and if a response is receive... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215653 | Controlling data transmission rate on the reverse link for each mobile station in a dedicated manner The data transmission rate on the reverse link in a mobile communications system is controlled by determining an interference level at a base station due to signals from all mobile stations served by the base station, and determining a transmission energy level requ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209460 | Apparatus and method for assigning subcarrier in OFDMA communication system A subcarrier assignment apparatus and a subcarrier assignment method, in which each of a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) constituting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system provides services in the capacity of a serving BS to ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209711 | Dynamic channel quality measurement procedures for optimizing data transmission in a wireless digital communication system Data transmission is optimized in a wireless digital communication system including a base station and a plurality of user equipment mobile terminals (UEs). Adaptive modulation and coding (AM&C) is employed to achieve improved radio resource utilization and provide ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206545 | Method for changing radio channels in a radio communication system A method for changing only one radio channel of an existing duplex radio link is wherein the radio channel changed or to be changed is the disturbed radio channel. The new radio channel (Dn) exhibits, for example in comparison with the disturbed radio cha... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206577 | Method and apparatus for receiving site selection diversity transmit (SSDT) signal in a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) system Disclosed is a UE and a method to operate the UE in the Site Selection Diversity Transmit mode. The method includes detecting a case where no base station is transmitting to the UE; inserting predetermined values into a received signal; and decoding the predetermine... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206608 | System and method for scheduling transmission from multiple-beam transmitters Systems and methods for scheduling transmissions from multi-beam transmitters to sets of receivers are provided. An angle of departure is determined for each of the receivers, and the transmissions to the receivers is then scheduled on the basis of the separation be... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206586 | Frequency assignment for multi-cell IEEE 802.11 wireless networks A frequency planning method for use in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network is described. The frequency planning method obtains traffic load information associated with access points belonging to a multi-cell wireless network and assigns channels to the access points bas... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206587 | Communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and radio communication method A communication mode determination section 201 determines the communication mode based on the CIR measured by a CIR measurement section 219; a DRC signal creation section 202 creates a DRC signal with a number corresponding to the communication ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206593 | Method for providing differing service levels in a wireless telecommunications network A mobile station in a wireless network can be assigned a priority level. The wireless network may support two or more different priority levels. A mobile station's priority level may be stored in a database containing other identifiers, such as the mobile station's ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203183 | Access point initiated forced roaming based upon bandwidth Apparatus and method provides dynamic load balancing of network bandwidth between access points in an 802.11 wireless LAN. The access point generates and monitors average bandwidth utilization of client devices connected to said access point. The average bandwidth u... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203494 | Optimizing radio communication efficiency and methods thereof A selective call radio (106) operating in a communication system (100) including a plurality of radio base stations (104) operating in a corresponding plurality of communication zones (102), wherein the selective call radio is programmed ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200376 | Method for steering smart antenna beams for a WLAN using MAC layer functions A smart antenna steering algorithm operates in response to different functions monitored by the media access control (MAC) layer within a client station. One function is when the MAC layer indicates that the client station has been placed in a power savings mode. In... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200407 | Multiple reuse patterns for channels of wireless networks A base station for a wireless network has multiple channels for communicating with user equipments, and has multiple channel reuse patterns. The patterns are complementary such that areas of low carrier to interference ratio C/I of one pattern are not coincident wit... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200405 | Method and system for providing channel assignment information used to support uplink and downlink channels A method and wireless communication system for providing channel assignment information used to support an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel. The system includes at least one Node-B and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU commu... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200404 | Information storage 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 informati... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200125 | Method and apparatus for differentiated communications in a wireless network In a wireless communications network, different service levels can be subscribed to by users of mobile stations for packet-switched communications, such as electronic mail, web browsing, text chat, packet-switched voice communications, and so forth. In one arrangeme... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197316 | Method for administering radio resources by monitoring the interference situation In a method for administering radio resources in a mobile radio cell, which includes a plurality of mobile terminals which are distinguishable by their radio signals, and a base station, the administration of radio resources of a mobile radio cell is improved to suc... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197314 | Communication system There is disclosed a method of controlling common channel resources in the uplink of a communication system, wherein the control of the common channel resources is dependent upon the quality requirements associated with a radio access for use on the up-link common c... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197549 | On-demand address pools A method for on-demand management of Internet Protocol (IP) address pools includes allocating an unused IP address from a local IP address pool designated for a remote domain if a request to connect to the remote domain is received and deallocating an IP address bac... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197315 | Method and apparatus to select a channel using performance metrics A method and apparatus to select a channel of operation for a wireless network device may examine channels supported by the device to gather information regarding present use of the channels. A best channel may be determined for the wireless network device by identi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197317 | Method and system of retransmission The present invention relates to generation and transmission of status reports utilizing available HARQ information. The invention is well suited for a cellular mobile radio communications system, particularly a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193978 | Communications system employing a scheme of radio channel setting control A radio channel setting control method for communications between a base-station apparatus and a mobile-station apparatus in a mobile communications system employing a CDMA scheme comprising the steps of: a) determining whether or not a spread code used for the comm... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194520 | Content player for broadcasting to information appliances The present invention is directed to a content player that allows a user to access media content through an information appliance. The content player is suitable for receiving media content from a network, then the media content may be transmitted to various informa... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194271 | Allocation of channels to wireless LANs Channels are allocated to one or more cells within a wireless LAN (WLAN) without causing unacceptable interference. The allocation involves dividing an allocation time period into frames, each frame having a substantially short duration, and then allocating one or m... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193979 | Method and apparatus for use by a GPRS device in responding to change in SAPI connection A method (and corresponding equipment) for use in case of a UE device (18) enabled for communication with other telecommunication devices via a network including a radio access network (17 21) and providing GPRS, the method for use in responding to a m... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194269 | Method and wireless communication hub for data communications The Highly Structured Rosette Antenna Array Data Communications System is a high capacity wireless network in which data is communicated from and to remotely located subscribers. The system uses cells that are comprised of a multiplicity of oblong microcells arrange... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194017 | Virtual cell mapping in macrodiverse wireless networks with frequency hopping A communication system for communication with mobile stations through a plurality of base stations at macrodiverse locations and with frequency hopping (FH). Two or more adjacent base stations communicate with mobile stations in a region between the adjacent base st... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190686 | Self configuring high throughput medium access control for wireless networks A network architecture that coordinates shared access to a wireless transmission medium while avoiding collisions between simultaneous transmissions even where network nodes cannot hear one another. There is also the capability of readily reconfiguring a wireless ne... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184791 | Methods, receivers, and computer program products for determining transmission power control commands using biased interpretation Methods, receivers, and computer program products for defining asymmetric decision regions of a symbol space to interpret transmitted power control commands are disclosed. A method of determining transmitted power control commands at a receiver can include defining ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184769 | Diversity handover control apparatus and method In a mobile communication system, radio channel capacity can be secured. A plurality of base stations transmit to a mobile station information X0 and the like about diversity handover, and a reference signal (such as a perch signal). The mobile station measures rece... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184772 | Wireless network using multiple channel assignment messages and method of operation An base station for use in a wireless network capable of communicating with mobile stations located in a coverage area of the wireless network. The base station is capable of transmitting to a first mobile station a first channel assignment message (CAM) assigning t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184774 | Coordination among mobile stations servicing terminal equipment Coordination among mobile stations enables a terminal device (114) to establish a most appropriate wireless network connection. According to the present invention, a connection request, including network connectivity requirements, is communicated from the ter... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184743 | Method and apparatus for allocating uplink resources in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system Techniques to schedule uplink data transmission for a number of terminals in a wireless communication system. In one method, a number of sets of terminals are formed for possible data transmission, with each set including a unique combination of terminals and corres... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181215 | Automatic GPRS/EDGE re-attach The present invention describes a method of automatically re-establishing a GPRS/EDGE connection between a mobile station and a network following successful execution of a network detach request. The mobile station receives a detach_request from the network to termi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181222 | Radio configuration-based handoff parameter adjustment A method and apparatus facilitate soft handover in a CDMA RAN (100) based on a requested set of soft handover parameters from a plurality of sets of soft handover parameters associated with a corresponding plurality of radio configurations. A mobile station (... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181224 | Communications systems and method of transmitting information Media access control in known communications systems relies upon an initial position of a mobile terminal and one or more Quality of Service parameters. In order to improve the quality of allocation of resources, the present invention provides a communications syste... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181170 | Apparatus and method for adaptive broadcast transmission An apparatus and method for adaptive broadcast transmission. A broadcast transmission can be received. Insufficiency of a broadcast channel quality can be determined. A negative acknowledgement signal can be sent on a common uplink channel in response to determining... | 02/20/2007 |
