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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150432 | Power management and distributed scheduling for uplink transmissions in wireless systems To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats af... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140098 | Spatial interference mitigation for wireless communication Techniques for transmitting and receiving data with spatial interference mitigation in a wireless network are described. In one design of transmitting data with spatial interference mitigation, a first station (e.g., a cell) may receive spatial feedback information ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126487 | Network access method in mobile communication system and terminal supporting the same A method for transmitting multiple antenna related information such as a multiple antenna receiver type and/or feedback overhead information to a base station and a terminal for supporting the same are disclosed. Since a size of feedback information is varied depend... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116793 | Apparatus and method for automatically controlling interference in broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for automatically controlling interference in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, a BS receives an interference measurement information signal of one or more adjacent BSs. The BS analyzes the interference me... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116792 | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for mitigating a temporary interference condition Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for mitigating a temporary interference condition are provided. The temporary interference condition is predicted between a first cellular device and a second cellular device prior to an occurrence of the temporary inter... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107983 | Systems and method for coordinated multipoint downlink transmissions A method for determining antenna weights for use in transmitting data from a plurality of base stations to a user device is disclosed. The antenna weights are determined using an input covariance matrix (S), and the input covariance matrix is determined subject to a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8019369 | Method and apparatus for transient frequency distortion compensation Transient distortion is compensated for by multiplying an exponentially-decaying phase shift onto the distorted waveform. The exponentially decaying phase shift waveform is patterned after the transient which typically takes the form of an exponential and occurs upo... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014802 | Transmit power adaptation algorithm using 802.11H A first wireless device includes a signal strength module and a control module. The signal strength module is configured to receive a signal from a second wireless device, wherein the signal includes transmit power data indicating a transmit power of the second wire... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010137 | Method and system for adaptive multi rate (AMR) and measurements downlink adaptation Various aspects of a method and system for adaptive multi rate and measurements adaptation may include a processor that enables computation of at least one signal level measurement for at least one received signal. The processor may enable cancelling of interfering ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7991413 | Method and device for controlling radio access A method for controlling a number of simultaneous radio connections in a communication device is presented. The control of a number of simultaneous radio connections is carried out in the communication device. Parameters of the radio connections are controlled such ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7894838 | Dynamic EMI (electromagnetic interference) management In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include determining if electromagnetic interference (EMI) is emitted by a device in one or more regions of an electromagnetic spectrum occupied by other users, and if it is determined that EMI is emitted by the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7865201 | HARQ data reception in multiradio device A HARQ data reception scheme for a multiradio communication device is disclosed. The communication device operates multiple radio connections and monitors interference level caused to a target radio connection by at least one other radio connection operated in the c... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860521 | System and method for minimizing inter-communications system mobile station-to-mobile station interference A system and method for minimizing inter-communications system mobile-to-mobile station interference includes a plurality of base stations (BS A and BS B) and a plurality of mobile stations (MS A and MS B) each communicating with a base station using a first mode of... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7792536 | Apparatus and method for canceling interference in wireless mobile communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for canceling interference by a base station in a wireless mobile communication system. The method includes measuring a state of a channel with a mobile station, determining metric function values for channels that act as interfer... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761106 | Voice coder with two microphone system and strategic microphone placement to deter obstruction for a digital communication device The present invention provides a voice coder for voice communication that employs a multi-microphone system as part of an improved approach to enhancing signal quality and improving the signal to noise ratio for such voice communications, where there is a special re... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742777 | Dynamic upstream attenuation for ingress noise reduction A dynamic arrangement for reducing the presence of ingress noise in the upstream signal path of a two-way cable system utilizes a variable attenuation element and amplifier disposed along the upstream signal path. The amplifier includes a bypass switch so that the a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742778 | Method and apparatus for transient frequency distortion compensation Transient distortion is compensated for by multiplying an exponentially-decaying phase shift onto the distorted waveform. The exponentially decaying phase shift waveform is patterned after the transient which typically takes the form of an exponential and occurs upo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734303 | Pilot modulation error ratio for evaluation of transmitter performance Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring transmitter performance in a wireless communication environment. A metric or metrics associated with one or more pilot symbols can be generated and used to evaluate performance. To generate pilot met... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706821 | Noise reduction system and method suitable for hands free communication devices A noise reduction system and method suitable for hands-free communication comprises a first microphone located in a wireless or cordless headset and a second microphone located within a separate communication device. The first microphone may be placed within a heads... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7623879 | Method and device for controlling radio access A method for controlling a number of simultaneous radio connections in a communication device is presented. The control of a number of simultaneous radio connections is carried out in the communication device. Parameters of the radio connections are controlled such ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7587211 | Method and system for adaptive multi rate (AMR) and measurements downlink adaptation Various aspects of a method and system for adaptive multi rate and measurements adaptation may include a processor that enables computation of at least one signal level measurement for at least one received signal. The processor may enable cancelling of interfering ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7522928 | Dynamic EMI (electromagnetic interference) management In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include determining if electromagnetic interference (EMI) is emitted by a device in one or more regions of an electromagnetic spectrum occupied by other users, and if it is determined that EMI is emitted by the... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7447511 | Method and device for equalizing mode selection A method and a device for equalizing mode selection are disclosed. The method comprises steps of: providing first sampling pulses in response to an equalized signal; providing second sampling pulses lagging behind the first sampling pulses for a pre-determined phase... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444121 | Methods and apparatuses for reducing interference using frequency division multiple access Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described which are capable of mitigating interference between piconets. Devices on a piconet may detect a certain degree of interference. When this interference is deemed as arising from another piconet, the first piconet may c... | 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 |
| 7440508 | System and method for cellular communications A a system for allocating subcarriers to subscribers, comprising a subcarriers allocation controller, connected to a subcarrier modulation unit in a transmitter and to a subcarrier demodulation unit in a receiver for setting a group of subcarriers to be used therein... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440766 | Method for employing multipath propagation in wireless radio communications A method of employing multipath propagation in wireless radio communications uses an omnidirectional transmitting/receiving antenna at one end of a transmission link to send an interrogating signal across an environment subject to multipath disturbances to a phase-c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433348 | Time division multiplexing protocol for wireless networks A multi-node time division multiplexing (TDM) system is disclosed. The improved method and apparatus utilizes an asynchronous synchronization packet (ASP) to synchronize the timing in all the nodes of the system. In some embodiments, the ASP also maps the time slots... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430426 | Apparatus, and associated method, for selectably delaying synchronization of database copies in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for selectably delaying performance of synchronization operations in which database copies are placed in match with one another. A user of a mobile node at which a database copy is maintained selectably actuates an actuator to se... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428280 | Receiving apparatus and transceiver The present invention has a N pieces of receiving antennas, a propagation path characterization estimator, a weight generator for interference canceller, an array processing interference canceller, a weight generator for signal estimator, a signal estimator, a trans... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426374 | Combination of high-side and low-side current sensing in system for providing power over communication link A system for supplying power to a load over a communication link has high-side current sensing circuitry for measuring a high-side current value, low-side current sensing circuitry for measuring a low-side current value, and control circuitry responsive to both the ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421280 | Wireless network and wireless access terminals using enhanced SYNCID parameter A mobile station capable of determining a SYNC_ID parameter for a base station serving said mobile station comprises: (i) a memory capable of storing prefix information and an associated SYNC_ID parameter; (ii) a transceiver capable of receiving identity information... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421279 | Method, system and apparatus for improving reception in multiple access communication systems An apparatus, system and method for improving the SNR of a desired signal received at a receiver in a multiple access communication system is disclosed. The apparatus, system and method subtracts known or knowable signals from the total signal received at the receiv... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7406327 | System that adapts power for minimizing the total amount of transmitted power within a wireless communications network and related method A system adapts power for minimizing the total amount of transmitted power in a wireless communications network. A transmit station transmits a communications signal requesting a response from receiving mobile stations. A plurality of the mobile stations receives th... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7380028 | Robust delivery of video data The systems and methods described herein relate to the robust delivery of data. A transmitter (e.g. a server or RF broadcaster) passes parameters to a receiver and/or client enabling operation of a generalized buffer model within the receiver that regulates the prop... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372912 | Method and apparatus for allocating channelization codes for wireless communications A data transmission method for a MIMO (Multiple-input Multiple-Output) system allowing multiple terminals to share channelization codes according to the channel states, by receiving channel information from terminals, allocating channelization codes for each transmi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372899 | Reduced symbol rate handshake signaling in ADSL systems In an asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) system comprising a central office High Speed ADSL Terminating Unit (HSTU-C) in bi-directional discrete multitone (DMT) communication with a remote High Speed ADSL Terminating Unit (HSTU-R), a method for improving ha... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369833 | Method and apparatus for improving the directivity of an antenna A receive system, including special integrated circuits, for providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are conver... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369877 | Multi-channel demodulation with blind digital beamforming A system and method for receiving communication signals is provided. According to the method, a plurality of communication signals is received, each communication signal comprising one or more source signals. The plurality of communication signals are multiplexed in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366128 | System and method for avoiding interference between two communications systems A system and method for avoiding mutual interference between two communications system is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention provides a system that includes a fixed unit and a portable unit. The fixed unit has a fixed transceiver. The portable unit has a por... | 04/29/2008 |
