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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185126 | Communication control method, radio base station, and radio control station A communication control method includes the step of restricting the number of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of mobile stations or a resource of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of the mobile stations when both communication channel s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185127 | Method and system for allocating network resources for a single user operating multiple devices A method and system are provided for allocating usage of network resources in a communication network. In an embodiment, a quality of service profile assigned to a user account is established where the user account comprises user information for a first wireless dev... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180359 | Data transmission method, system, base station and subscriber station, a data processing unit, computer program product, computer program distribution medium and baseband module A data transmission method in a communication system including transmitting at least one capacity request message from a subscriber station, granting capacity subscriber station-specific by a base station, transmitting at least one capacity grant message from the ba... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180360 | Downlink traffic channel resource allocation method and data transmission method for multi-carrier HSDPA The present invention discloses a method of allocating downlink traffic channel resources for multi-carrier HSDPA, and the method includes: first of all, selecting a carrier with the optimum channel condition; determining whether the carrier meets the resource alloc... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180358 | Joining a session in a communication network supporting multimedia group calls An apparatus and method for establishing a session in a communication network supporting multimedia group calls. A first step (202) includes determining streams for a multimedia group call by the service entity. A next step (204) includes providing an ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170575 | Method and a device in a wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, a base station adaptively schedule CQI reports form mobile stations. By adaptively prioritizing the CQI report from the mobile station against the uplink traffic and control data, the CQI reporting rate avoids unnecessary overhead... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170572 | Methods and apparatus for supporting quality of service in communication systems An access node, e.g., base station, determines a configuration of an end node, e.g., wireless terminal, intended to support a specific traffic flow and sends a configuration command to the wireless terminal. A base station may determine one or more parameters associ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170573 | Base station apparatus and wireless communication method A base station apparatus which conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal includes: a retransmission request detection unit which detects a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal; a bandwidth assignment unit which... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170574 | Method and apparatus for controlling interference between cells in mobile communication network A method and apparatus for controlling interference between cells for non-real time data transfer in a mobile communication network is provided. The method of controlling interference between cells in a mobile communication system including a plurality of cells incl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165596 | Data transmission method and data re-transmission method A method which can reduce loss in data transmission is provided. A data block is prepared in a high-level layer and the data block is transmitted in a low-level layer. Status report information associated with reception or non-reception of the data block is received... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165595 | System and method for multi-stage antenna training of beamforming vectors A system and method for multi-stage antenna training of beamforming vectors is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises a method of acquiring a beamforming pattern in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving a first plurality of sig... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160601 | Method for optimizing spatial modulation in a wireless link and network element thereto The selection of the spatial mode together with modulation and encoding schemes based on channel condition measurements requested from MS forms a basis for selecting a best transmission data rate in a wireless link in every channel conditions. A method and network e... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160603 | Method and system for providing streaming media content to roaming mobile wireless devices A mobile device requests streaming media content while being served by a first radio access network in a market area. A content streaming system obtains the requested media content, adapts the media content using a first total bandwidth availability curve (TBAC) to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160602 | Opportunistic uplink scheduling Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scheduling uplink transmissions. For instance, a time sharing scheme can be utilized such that differing mobile devices can be scheduled to transmit during differing time slots; however, it is also contemplated... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155659 | Measurement-assisted dynamic frequency-reuse in cellular telecommunications networks A radio network resource controller directs a first network node associated with a first cell region, or a wireless terminal in communication through the first cell region, to measure and report radio resource-related data selected from the group consisting of: reso... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155658 | Methods and systems for providing dynamic bandwidth adaptation in wireless systems A method is provided for altering a channel bandwidth in a wireless system, wherein the method comprises sending to a wireless device a report request message comprising an indicator of an ability to change the channel bandwidth from a first channel bandwidth to a s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155657 | Dynamic routing A method for managing transactions across a large number of service providers includes determining performance metrics associated with each of a plurality of service providers and generating a score for each service provider based on the performance metrics associat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155660 | MBMS dual receiver A method for communicating between a network and a dual receiver UE includes receiving first signaling from a first network node at a first frequency, and receiving second signaling via a PtM control channel from a second network node at a second frequency. The meth... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150410 | System and method for a fractional loading scheme for broadcast/multicast traffic The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for a fractional loading scheme for broadcast/multicast traffic. In one example, the method includes determining a fractional loading factor for a portion of a wireless network and selecting wireless ne... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150407 | System and method for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system Systems and methods for scheduling data transmissions in a wireless communication system using scheduling requests and grants. In one embodiment, a wireless communication system has a base station and one or more mobile stations coupled by a wireless link having for... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150406 | System and method for providing robust location based services A system and method for anticipating wireless signal loss and providing location based services in view of the anticipated wireless signal loss is disclosed. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150408 | Pilot grouping and set management in multi-carrier communication systems Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for grouping pilot signals and using such grouping for pilot strength reporting and set management in multi-carrier communication systems. In one embodiment, an access network may assign a group identifier (... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150409 | Method of controlling data transmission in a wireless relay system, and the relay system implementing the method A data transmission method in a wireless relay system, and a method of selecting an optimal transmission mode based on a channel capacity of an individual link that is measured by a mobile station. The data transmission method includes: transmitting a first ratio of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150411 | Method for efficient radio resource management An improved admission control procedure for an admission control entity (e.g., Radio Network Controller (RNC), Node B, etc.) in a network that admits a terminal (mobile station, user equipment, etc.) having a certain receiver performance. Without improperly assuming... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145229 | System and method for improving sector throughput in a broadband data-optimized multi-carrier environment A multi-carrier base transceiver system is configured to improve sector throughout by selectively allocating available carriers to subscribers based on Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, as well as the prevailing radio frequency (RF) environment for the subject ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145231 | Base station apparatus and radio communication method Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS co... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145230 | Context-image distributed spectrum allocation scheme for cognitive radios A method (300) and cognitive radio (CR) wireless device (102) are provided for dynamically accessing spectrum in an opportunistic spectrum access wireless communication system (100). The method includes: transmitting, from a CR wireless device, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145232 | Mobile communication system for matching resource amount of core network bearer and resource amount of visited network bearer A visited policy controlling device decides the amount of a visited network bearer resource that is provided by a visited user plane device for an end-to-end service based on the amount of a bearer service resource requested to be used in the end-to-end service. A h... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140088 | Transmission rate switching in a mobile communication system In a mobile communication system, a mobile switching center 27 changes a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from a mobile station 16 and so on to a database 11 or a transmission rate of communication data transmitted from the da... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140089 | Network selection for multiple network platforms Embodiments provide methods, systems, and apparatuses to generate and send a command message to a mobile device connected to a first wireless network to command the mobile device to connect to one of one or more candidate wireless networks. The message includes embe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140087 | Techniques for always on always connected operation of mobile platforms using network interface cards An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network interface (NIC) card operable in communication with a mobile platform to monitor network traffic and perform filtering to enable decreased system resource use in said mobile platform ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131306 | Wireless access network and method for allocating data subcarriers within a downlink subframe based on grouping of user stations Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for allocation time and frequency resources are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a base station allocates contiguous groups of data subcarriers of a d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126475 | Apparatus and method for uplink scheduling on shared channels A network controller or base station (502), allocates resources and indicates a minimum priority level below which, mobile stations may not transmit data via messaging (503). Messaging (503) may be a scheduling message in some embodiments. The n... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116781 | Method and system of managing wireless resources The invention provides for the management of wireless resources, which can reduce call blocking by allowing high priority services, under suitable conditions, to use resources allocated to low priority services. Thus high priority services can pre-empt the usage of ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116782 | Communication quality control system The present invention implements communication control with user's service subscription information reflected in a mobile communication network. A QoS control server for providing a communication quality control function of a network, a user information management s... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112093 | Iub/Iur HSDPA/HSUPA mobility procedures when RL addition/RL deletion condition triggers simultaneously, in SRNC, with the HS-DSCH/E-DCH serving cell change condition Data structure is shown for radio link addition messages and radio link deletion messages of a mobility procedure in a wireless telecommunications system, each message for at least temporary storage in a computer-readable medium during transfer of said message, wher... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090381 | Protocol assisted switched diversity of antennas Fading is countered in a WLAN or similar system to maintain QoS by a fusion of switched diversity and protocol based redundancy using time spaced transmission bursts to improve the performance of radio receivers. This redundancy may be enhanced by an overlay of spac... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090382 | Allocating radio resources in mobile communication system Transmitting information using a preamble of a Random Access Channel (RACH) in an Evolved Universal mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) is provided. A preamble transmission is used to inform a base station of specific information when a terminal uses a RACH an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086243 | VoIP service threshold determination by home wireless router A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The ho... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086241 | Handoff methods, and devices utilizing same A handoff method. A mobile station calculates and records the strength of a pilot signal from a cell as reference strength if a handoff occurs in a first system. The mobile station further adjusts the reference strength according to the effect caused by forward and ... | 12/27/2011 |
