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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7149408 | Method and apparatus for editing video data Disclosed herein is a moving-picture editing apparatus that comprises a display device and a controller. The display device has a display screen and can display the frames forming a moving picture, on the display screen in the form of a frame matrix based on the fra... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146182 | UMTS-GSM dual mode timing device The present invention provides for a cellular radio communications device arranged for use with first and second communication systems having different timebases, and including means for determining the offset between the timebase at a serving cell of the first syst... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145474 | Dynamic self-configuring metering network A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and registers such meters as level one meters. The collector transmits instr... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146133 | Wireless transmission interference avoidance on a device capable of carrying out wireless network communications A wireless technology (e.g., Wi-Fi) coexistence architecture and method are disclosed for managing potential conflicts between wireless technology interference sources. A coexistence driver maintains a conflict map identifying potentially conflicting wireless techno... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146160 | Caller identification logging system and method for use of same A system (100) for tracking incoming telephone calls includes a first caller identification decoder (166) that decodes caller identification data for a first incoming telephone call including a time stamp having a value reflecting a first time. The sys... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142830 | Adaptive transceiver system A method for forming signals at a transceiver having at least two transmit and receive chains, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining the phase difference and relative amplitude of signals from a set comprising a plurality of mobile stations as received... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142106 | System and method of visualizing network layout and performance characteristics in a wireless network A system for visually detailing the layout of a wireless network and for providing performance statistics regarding the network. Graphical diagrams are generated in accordance with a request wherein the diagrams illustrate nodes and data collectors in the wireless n... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139527 | Multi point wireless transmission repeater system and wireless equipments A communication system having an excellent communication path capacity characteristic even in an insight transmission environment in which a transmitter and a receiver can see each other directly in an MIMO communication system and a wireless communication device fo... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139225 | Virtual real-time clock based on time information from multiple communication systems Method and apparatus to implement a “virtual” real-time clock at a terminal based on time information from multiple communication systems. At least one system (e.g., GPS) provides “absolute” time information for the virtual real-time clock, and at least one ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139921 | Low power clocking systems and methods A low power reconfigurable processor core includes one or more processing units, each unit having a clock input that controls the performance of the unit; and a controller having a plurality of clock outputs each coupled to a respective clock input of one of the pro... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139525 | Time synchronization system, satellite system applied to the time synchronization system, ground system applied in the time synchronization system, time synchronization method and a computer-readable recording medium with a program In a satellite system, a time frame to be used for establishing a time correlation between the satellite system and a ground station is inserted between the transmission frames at an arbitrary timing. The ground station computes the time at which the data was genera... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136652 | System and method for identification of transmitters with limited information A system and method are disclosed by which a base transceiver station (BTS) may be uniquely identified. When attempting to determine the location of a mobile unit using signal from multiple BTSs, it is critical that the BTSs be uniquely identified and their position... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136660 | Positional determination of a user in a mobile communications system with emission diversity The invention relates to a method for increasing the precision during the determination of system parameters dependent on the propagation delay, e.g. for a positional determination, in a mobile communications system with emission diversity, according to which a subs... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136662 | Wireless base station, method of selecting wireless base station, method of multicasting, and wireless terminal One preferred embodiment of the invention provides a wireless base station which provides a multicasting service to simultaneously transmit identical data to a plurality of wireless terminals. A wireless base station is connected to a plurality of wireless terminals... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133693 | Information processing device, schedule inputting method and program for use in information processing device The present invention is intended to provide an information processing device adapted to rapidly register thereinto a schedule, a schedule inputting method for use in the information processing device, and a schedule inputting program used in the information process... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133391 | Time division protocol for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio network having coordinating channel access to shared parallel data channels with separate reservation channel A novel protocol for an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio network that provides collision-free channel access with an emphasis on improving geographic reuse of the frequency spectrum. The protocol of the invention is executed on the reservation or control channel, and prov... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130658 | Shared circuitry for WLAN receiver functional units A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) receiver having a synchronization unit is provided. The synchronization unit comprises a first functional unit for performing a first signal processing function, a second functional unit for performing a second signal processing ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127230 | Methods and computer program products for providing communications in emergency situations A method for providing communications services in a network can include adjusting a mode of communication for devices operating in the network based on emergency state information. Related user terminals, computer program products, and components are also disclosed.... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126981 | Method and apparatus for cell search for W-CDMA with effect of clock offset The invention discloses a cell search method for a CDMA system for a three-stage cell search procedure. The cell search method have the steps of matching incoming signals; over-sampling the incoming signals N times against a chip rate; down-sampling the incoming sig... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126800 | Method and system for communications channel delay asymmetry compensation using global positioning systems A method for compensating for communications channel delay asymmetry in a current differential protection system includes determining an apparent sampling clock offset for a communications channel, the apparent sampling clock offset between a first sampling clock an... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127632 | Method and device for synchronizing integrated circuits A method and device for synchronizing the time between at least two integrated circuits (201, 202), which receive the same pulse signal. In the integrated circuits (201, 202) a counter (204, 206) is used to count the number of pulses in the rece... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126494 | Remote access to electronic meters using a TCP/IP protocol suite An electronic meter incorporates a TCP/IP protocol suite and an HTTP server to provide two-way access to the meter data. Alternatively, the TCP/IP protocol suite may be incorporated into a gateway serving multiple meters connected through a power line or wireless tw... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123929 | Method and device for synchronization and identification of the codegroup in cellular communication systems and computer program product therefor Once slot synchronization has been obtained in a first step, during a second step there is acquired, by means of correlation of the received signal (r) with the synchronization codes, the information corresponding to the codegroup and to the fine slot synchronizatio... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120390 | BLUETOOTH smart offset compensation An offset history table is implemented and maintained in a BLUETOOTH device and is used to pre-seed an expected frequency offset of a received signal from another BLUETOOTH device. The disclosed offset history table includes one entry for each piconet device in a pa... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119713 | Dynamic self-configuring metering network A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and registers such meters as level one meters. The collector transmits instr... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120431 | System and method for adjusting antenna radiation in a wireless network A method for adjusting antenna radiation in a wireless network involves varying antenna radiation directions of antennas throughout a defined range. A test receiver measures signal parameters from the antennas at measurement locations as the antenna radiation direct... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120132 | Apparatus and method for synchronization of uplink synchronous transmission scheme in a CDMA communication system Disclosed is a method for synchronizing a scrambling code in a CDMA communication system including a UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) and a plurality of user equipments (UEs), using orthogonal codes for identifying the UEs and a single scrambling code f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116632 | System and method for determining synchronization point in OFDM modems for accurate time of flight measurement A system and method including an algorithm that can use the linear time shift property of the subcarrier modulation to provide accurate frame synchronization for communications between nodes in a wireless network, where nodes employ orthogonal frequency division mul... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116991 | Method of determining the position of a mobile station in a mobile telecommunication network The present invention concerns a method of determining the position of a mobile station in a mobile telecommunication network, the said network including a plurality of base stations designed to adopt at least on the one hand a state corresponding to periods of tran... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113788 | Method and apparatus for network formation When a requesting node (402) has routing capabilities and attempts to join a network and there are no association slots available, the requesting node (402) will send an association message to a potential root node (401). If the root node (40... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113480 | Mobile communication system and operation control method thereof In a W-CDMA communication system, even the RNC goes into the congestion state due to increasing user data, the RNC may distribute loads while continuously performing its processing without causing system down. An ATM network used in a RAN is IP-networked, where a C ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110781 | Mobile telecommunications systems Described herein is a method of providing synchronization between a plurality of base stations (300) in a telecommunications system which comprises providing a random access channel in each cell (320). A local base station (300) uses the random ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110782 | Cell search synchronization Cell search synchronization in spread spectrum communications systems using primary and second synchronization codes with symbol partitioning for shorter coherent combinations (despreading) which are combined non-coherently, and Fourier transform analysis automatica... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107056 | Method and system for estimating movement speed of mobile unit The present invention is related to a method for estimating a movement speed of a mobile unit in a mobile radio communication system. First, a signal from the mobile unit is received. Then, a first signal is generated by using a first filter having a first cut-off f... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103374 | Synchronization of transmitter and receiver frequencies in multiaccess networks The present invention provides methods and apparatus for integrating the operation of a plurality of radio networks. The plurality of radio networks may utilize a common frequency spectrum. The radio center frequencies are adjusted so that frequency drift in relatio... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103336 | Radio receiver, radio receiving method, and recording medium The AGC threshold of electric intensity level is set by the signal processor portion 107 in response to the measured result of the error rate measuring circuit 109 that measures the error rate of the received signal, and the gain control operation of t... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099633 | Intervehicle communication system and method A communication system and methods are disclosed for use with vehicles. The communication system permits toll-free, local communication between people in two different vehicles using communicators that are synchronizable to a common operative channel or frequency wi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7100196 | Device in a system operating with CAN-protocol and in a control and/or supervision system A control supervision system incorporates a digital serial communication and modules that are mutually communicable to this and operate with CAN-protocol. A control desk can be wirelessly connected to one or more modules operating with a signal protocol which does n... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095818 | Data transmission process with auto-synchronized correcting code, auto-synchronized coder and decoder, corresponding transmitter and receiver A data transmission process with auto-synchronised correcting code, auto-synchronised coder and decoder, corresponding transmitter and receiver. According to the invention, synchronisation management signals (HS, SS, ID) are formed and, under the control of t... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096039 | Backhaul multicasting using Ethernet-based radio access networks The present invention sets forth a methodology for providing improved downlink backhaul services from a radio network controller (RNC) to a plurality of base stations via a backhaul network that provides Ethernet services. The Ethernet services are provided by a gro... | 08/22/2006 |
