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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7962162 | Simulcasting OFDM system having mobile station location identification A wireless simulcast system, such as an OFDM network, includes the ability to determine the location of a mobile user. Location-based services can be provided to the mobile user. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7937098 | Hold direct A system for providing online access to on-hold messages: an interface by which an end user can access at least one on-hold message from an online database; a system for downloading at least one message as a file to be played on an end user phone answering system. T... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7848768 | Network system and communication device A network system includes at least first and second communication devices connected in a network. The first communication device includes an inquiry device for inquiring the attributes of the second communication device to the second communication device via the net... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7809386 | Local network proxy for a remotely connected mobile device operating in reduced power mode A mobile device is coupled to an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer local area network via a public network. A secure data connection is created between the mobile device and an access point of the local area network so that the mobile device operates in an address space of the l... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7702344 | Radio communication system, mobile station, base station and radio network controller A radio communication system includes a radio network controller, base stations and mobile stations. The mobile station includes a response signal transmitter which is configured to transmit a response signal including a group ID identifying a multicast group A to a... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7546132 | Communication of point to multipoint service information in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving information for configuring a point-to-multipoint control channel in a wireless communication system. A network generates configuration information for configuring a point-to-multipoint control... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7515921 | Peak reduction for simulcast broadcast signals A reduced peak simulcast signal generator and a method for generating a stable peak-attenuated simulcast signal, which combines a digital broadcast signal and an analogue broadcast signal, are described. The simulcast signal generator comprises at least one attenuat... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7454219 | Method of synchronization of the uplink channel of a simulcast network A method of synchronization on the uplink channel of a Simulcast network with a plurality of fixed receivers (BS1-BS4) and a selection unit (20), comprises the following steps. All the receivers are placed in a synchronization search mode (70... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443938 | Method and system for synchronization between transmitter and receiver in a communication system A method and system for synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver in a communication system is provided. The receiver receives a plurality of signals from the transmitter. According to this method, a frequency burst is detected in the received signal at t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440425 | Apparatus and method for reducing paging channel loading for broadcast multicast services in a wireless network A message transmitted from a base station to a plurality of mobile stations in a wireless network providing broadcast multicast services includes one or more fields providing configuration information associated with multicast services deployed on each frequency in ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440441 | Method and system for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) rating and billing The advances disclosed herewith delimit an improved method and system for smoothly rating and billing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Implemented as part of a computer program product, the solution seeking the protection of Letters Patent, represents a comprehen... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430186 | Spatial-driven context zones for sensor networks and device infrastructures An apparatus, method and computer readable device for providing spatial information in a sensor network. The sensor network comprises a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators, each sensors and actuators have a unique id and a known spatial location within... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424007 | Power-save method for 802.11 multicast paging applications A power-save method for a network with an access point and an associated power-save client. The access point buffers wireless data that includes a unicast frame and a multicast frame. A periodic scheduled beacon message is transmitted with a unicast indication eleme... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408916 | Synchronisation of frame transmissions in a telecommunications network The invention concerns a method for synchronising clocks of base transceiver stations in a telecommunications system and a mobile communications system. According to the invention, in either some or in all base station sites of the telecommunications network a locat... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403790 | Methods for signaling broadcast and multicast information in communication networks Methods for signaling information to a group of users in a communication network supporting a broadcast-multicast service are described, in which one or more indicator bits of a sequence may be assigned to indicate transmission of signaling information that is relat... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395079 | Methods and apparatus for selectively processing information replicas Simple and robust methods and apparatus for switching between different types of combining in a receiver in a communication system are disclosed that minimize Layer 1 processing overhead and power consumption. A method of selecting among a plurality of types ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386320 | Apparatus and method for use in the multicast of traffic data in wireless multiple access communications systems In a wireless communications system, multicast messages are transported to groups of wireless terminals by employing a common control channel to transmit a multicast paging message indicating that multicast traffic data is to be transmitted to a particular group of ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373279 | Network A network including a bus through which data is transmitted and a plurality of network devices connected to the bus to form the network. In the network, at least one of the network devices performs measurement at timings in a predetermined cycle T and outputs data c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372823 | Method of transmitting broadcast-multicast services parameters messages in a wireless communications system Rather than transmitting a large full Broadcast-Multicast Services (BCMC) Parameters Message (BSPM) containing a full set of BSPM parameters pertaining to all active BCMC flows within a sector on an infrequent basis, smaller-sized differential or partial BSPMs are i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369602 | Adaptive channel estimation by means of variation of the integration length during the despreading of spread-coded training symbol sequences In the method, the received spread-coded signal sequence rk(i) is first of all correlated with the spread-coded training symbol sequence in a correlator (24) so as to counteract the influence of the transmitted training symbols. The signal sequence... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369621 | Radio communication base station device, radio communication mobile station device, and radio communication method In order to perform appropriate reception quality control on each mobile station in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service, a layered coding section 101 encodes input data by dividing the input data into two layers and obtains a first layer code string and ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366988 | Method and apparatus for converting a network description into a computer program for disambiguating transmit-by-exception telemetry from a multi-path, multi-tier network A method for making an apparatus for disambiguating telemetry sent by exception over a multi-path, multi-tier communications network having a plurality of telemetry source nodes producing telemetry data elements, a plurality of linked relay nodes, and one destinatio... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366518 | Supplemental channel sharing algorithm Disclosed is a method for utilizing SCH resources more efficiently for supplemental channels (SCH) by minimizing gaps between data bursts due to overhead delays. Such gaps are minimized using a supplemental channel sharing algorithm to prospectively assign SCH resou... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356095 | Hybrid data recovery system In a data recovery circuit, multiple slicer outputs of incoming data for each data bit, e.g., one or more slicer outputs taken at or near the center of the eye and one or more slicer outputs taken at or near the leading edge and/or trailing edge of the eye, are proc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355991 | Method and apparatus for message flooding within a communication system A method and apparatus for message flooding is provided that takes advantage of the availability of node locations. The transmission of a flood message by a node is based on location information of neighboring nodes. In particular, each node within the communication... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352771 | Data collision detection device and method A data collision detection device that includes a means for de-modulating at least one carrier signal corresponding to a received modulated subcarrier signal from at least one data transmitter to recover the subcarrier signal from the carrier signal. A microcontroll... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340230 | Receiver architectures utilizing coarse analog tuning and associated methods Receiver architectures and associated methods are disclosed that provide initial analog coarse tuning of desired channels within a received signal spectrum, such as a set-top box signal spectrum for satellite communications. These architectures provide significant a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336646 | System and method for synchronizing a transport stream in a single frequency network A single frequency network (SFN) system is provided, where the system includes a head-end and a plurality of transmitters. The head-end is capable of calculating timing information based upon a time reference having a second resolution. Thereafter, the head-end is c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336727 | Generalized m-rank beamformers for MIMO systems using successive quantization The telecommunications system described herein implements a multi-rank beamformer for use in wireless systems equipped with multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas. The multi-rank beamformer uses finite-rate feedback of channel conditions to achieves close t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327699 | Method and device for synchronisation of distant clocks to a central clock via satellite The invention relates to a method and a device for synchronizing one or more remote clocks (2) to a central clock (1) via a bi-directional satellite radio link (9.1, 9.2). Time and data signals are exchanged via suitable transmitting (8, 12 | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324559 | Centralized synchronization for wireless networks This invention synchronizes the sample clocks of an entire wireless network from a single central base station. Unlike a conventional digital radio network where every terminal must have a synchronization circuit in its receiver to adjust the sample clock, each of t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321776 | Estimating GPS time at cellular terminals based on timing of information from base stations and satellites A mobile terminal generates an estimate of GPS time. The mobile terminal includes a cellular receiver, a GPS receiver, and a processor. The cellular receiver is configured to receive communication signals from cells in a wireless communication system. The GPS receiv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319686 | Frame synchronization in multi-cell systems with a data interface A method of timing in a multi-cell system requiring synchronization of frames in transmission is provided. Transceivers of a wired data interface between a central controller and multiple base stations are synchronized to a frame timing clock up to a difference in p... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319714 | Wireless communication and wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication system which transmits and receives a signal by using a plurality of wireless apparatuses, comprising: a first wireless apparatus group having a plurality of transmitting apparatuses, each transmitting a wireless signal based on a first cont... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315523 | Apparatus and method for neighbor assisted combining for multicast services A method and apparatus for neighbor assisted combining for localized multicast services. User equipment is sent a signal indicating the relationship between cells with respect to serving cells transmitting a common multicast transmission. At least a portion of the c... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313127 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing a radio telemetry system by way of transmitted-reference, delay-hopped ultra-wideband pilot signal A time-division-multiplexed radio communication system and method uses transmitted-reference, delay-hopped (TR/DH) ultra-wideband (UWB) broadcast signal to provide a pilot signal to all mobile devices in a coverage area from which time synchronization is derived. Us... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308278 | Selective service method in multicast system A multicast service of a 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is disclosed. A multicast service stream identifier is provided so that each multicast area can receive different information for one service or one multicast service can be provided wit... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304974 | Supporting a network behind a wireless station An apparatus for supporting a network behind a wireless station includes a gateway that can receive from a wireless station a request for a communications session. The gateway can determine whether to authenticate the communications session, and, in response to dete... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298713 | Method and system for reducing message instances A method and system for transmitting data with reduced message instances is disclosed. A wireless message network uses destination identifiers and message pointers to direct message data to multiple mobile units and avoid duplication of messages. In order to provide... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289808 | Inter-system handover A method for performing handover of a mobile station communicating in a first call via a first network to communication in a second call via a second network, comprising: generating a request for handover; establishing the second call between the first network and t... | 10/30/2007 |
