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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180385 | Intelligent adaptive re-coding for improved communications resource utilization System(s) and method(s) that, periodically or when dynamically triggered, adapt data rates associated with user equipment (UE) in a network are presented. When the UE uses an application or a service, data traffic associated with the UE is inspected to obtain inform... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170593 | Apparatus, method, and system for channel selection and allocation in mobile communications A mobile communication system (100) includes a plurality of mobile stations (104, 105), a serving base station (101) and, associated with the base station, a channel selector (220, 309) for selecting and allocating downlink wireless traff... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160626 | Apparatus and method for enquiring channel condition information in cognitive radio wireless communication system A method of operating a Data Base (DB) server for storing spectrum condition information on a licensed system in a Cognitive Radio (CR)-based wireless communication system and a CR-based wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining cha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155681 | Base station, mobile station, and cell determination method One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a load measurement unit configured to measure traffic status in each of the cells; a selection probability computation unit con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135424 | Method to improve diversity gain in a cooperative spectrum sensing network A cooperative sensing technique (300) operates by selecting a group of subscribers (302) from a secondary system, measuring a cooperative sensing metric (306) and then using the metric to identify an achievable spatial diversity gain for the gro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8095162 | Control device for allocating resources to communication devices that use differing protocols and methods for use therewith A control device includes at least one communication interface for communicating first control data with a first plurality of communication devices that utilize the millimeter wave frequency band in accordance with a first protocol and further for communicating seco... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086256 | Communication method in mobile communication system, and mobile station and base station in the same system A scheduling method for transmitting an uplink signal from a mobile station to a base station comprises transmitting the uplink signal in a first scheduling mode in which the mobile station can transmit the uplink data without permission of the base station if an up... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081996 | Integrated infrastructure for coexistence of WI-FI networks with other networks A wireless communications method and system includes an industrial sensor network that comprises a plurality of industrial sensors, which communicates with the industrial sensor network at a particular operating frequency band through one or more infrastructure node... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078207 | System and method of automatically maintaining a line-of-sight communication channel One exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of automatically maintaining a line-of-sight communication channel. The method comprises determining information about each communication resource that is accessible in a region through which a mobile system is moving... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064938 | Adaptive multi-tiered re-coding for improved communications resource utilization System(s) and method(s) that, periodically or when triggered, adapt data rates in multiple tiers of a network are presented. A top tier feedback (FB) loop adapts on a longer time scale associated with its longer path transit time for FB communication messages from a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064940 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating initiation of channel allocation to communicate data in a radio communication system Apparatus (48), and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a mobile node (12) operable in a communication system (10) to request allocation of communication capacity upon which to communicate data pursuant to a communication service... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064939 | Wireless load balancing A technique for wireless load balancing involves providing a wireless infrastructure that creates a target band option and helps push clients toward that band. An example of a method according to the technique involves, by way of example but not limitation, respondi... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060125 | Configuring method and apparatus An apparatus, including a determining unit for determining one or more applicable radio selections including one or more radio interfaces for use by one or more communication applications, a ranking unit for ranking the applicable radio selections to an order of sup... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8032167 | Multimode control device for allocating resources to communication devices that use differing protocols and methods for use therewith A control device includes a first communication interface for communicating first control data with a first plurality of communication devices that utilize the millimeter wave frequency band in accordance with a first protocol, wherein the first communication interf... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014803 | Mobile communication system, mobile station, base station, and control channel allocation method A disclosed mobile station includes a storage unit configured to establish a correspondence between an identifier for a downlink Layer-1 control channel associated with a downlink data channel and a physical channel parameter for an uplink Layer-1 control channel an... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010139 | Method improving the cross-layer multimedia transmission quality in cognitive radio networks The present invention relates to a paper-breaker touching safety protector, of which the control circuit unit is connected with the paper-breaking machinery part via the motor driving circuit unit, the control circuit unit is connected with the conductive touch pane... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996029 | Method of allocating radio resources in a wireless communication system A method of allocating radio resources in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of allocating radio resources from a network of a wireless communication system in accordance with a plurality of scheduling modes comprises transmitting first schedulin... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983703 | Prioritized common subframe to provide better service to the overlapping areas in a community A subframe structure for a wireless community uses a master common subframe and second master common subframe method to give BSs different priorities to serve overlapping areas in common subframes. The subframe structure and corresponding method can increase overlap... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970422 | System and method for frequency planning A system and method for frequency planning is provided. In systems with consecutive frequency channels, half-channel frequency reuse can be provided between channels employed by different cells. Specifically, two channels in two proximately located cells can overlap... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966028 | Wireless base station device and method for controlling wireless base station device The throughput of communication is enhanced in a wireless base station device communicating with each of a plurality of terminal devices according to a modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes by using any one channel of a plurality of chann... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953427 | Communication access apparatus systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to reserve access for a source device included in a plurality N of source devices to N−1 logical channels accessible by a set of target devices included in the plurality of source devices by c... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949357 | Method and apparatus to select collaborating users in spectrum sensing In a first time interval TI a first frequency band FB is pseudorandomly selected from a designated spectrum, and a first analysis result is determined by sensing the first FB during the first TI and then transmitted. In a second TI a second FB is pseudorandomly sele... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937099 | Adaptive piconet protocol A method for adaptive piconet protocol begins by determining, by a master device, a number of slave devices that are currently affiliated with the master device in a piconet. The method continues by determining, by the master device, data requirements and/or voice r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937100 | Method of updating channel information by a mobile station that is in power saving mode A method of updating channel information by a mobile station (MS) that is in power saving mode is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the MS which receives status information of a first channel descriptor and transmission frame information which includ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7920882 | Human interface device and wireless communication method thereof Provided are a human interface device and a wireless communication method thereof. The wireless communication method of the human interface includes the steps of: setting up an occupancy channel of the host digital terminal and the wireless input unit by communicati... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912487 | Mobile communication system, base station, terminal device, and transmission control method A mobile communication system in which, when transmission is performed from a base station to a terminal device, a modulation scheme is designated, from among at least two modulation schemes with different modulation levels, on the basis of reception quality at the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907958 | Negotiated channel information reporting in a wireless communication system Techniques to enhance the performance in a wireless communication system using CQI feedback optimized to support different scenarios. According to one aspect, an access terminal may select a CQI feedback table based on the access terminals capability. According to a... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7860522 | Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating initiation of channel allocation to communicate data in a radio communication system Apparatus (48), and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a mobile node (12) operable in a communication system (10) to request allocation of communication capacity upon which to communicate data pursuant to a communication service... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856240 | Distributed sound enhancement Sound quality is enhanced in a sound system including handsets and headsets. Handset sound enhancing algorithms are implemented in a handset. The handset automatically determines which, if any, of a plurality of headset sound enhancing algorithms are active in a hea... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7822429 | Method of updating channel information by a mobile station that is in power saving mode A method of updating channel information by a mobile station (MS) that is in power saving mode is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the MS which receives status information of a first channel descriptor and transmission frame information which includ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818019 | Method and apparatus for optimized assignment of Abis transmission resources based on dynamic statistical time division multiplexing The present invention relates to technique for optimized assignment of Abis transmission resources based on dynamic statistical time division multiplexing, the method comprising the steps of: assigning a set of 64 k TS's to GPRS/EGPRS services on an Abis link, the s... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818018 | Distributed hierarchical scheduling in an AD hoc network An ad hoc network with distributed hierarchical scheduling is disclosed. In one aspect, stations in a network mesh detect interfering neighbor stations and form interference lists. Stations transmit their interference lists. Scheduling stations schedule allocations ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7751839 | Method and system for bandwidth optimization in a communication network A method for the bandwidth optimization of at least one sector in a communication network is provided. The communication network comprises at least one mobile device (106) and a base station controller (102). A Data Rate Control (DRC) cover value of a ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738890 | Dynamic spectrum utilization techniques and methods A remote communications node unit (86) determines radio frequency (RF) dynamic spectrum utilization for use in a RF communications network (154) and includes a measuring module (46) for measuring radio frequency (RF) interference at a location o... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7697948 | Resource allocation in communication networks A method of adapting resource allocation parameters to reach one or more quality targets with improved accuracy is proposed. New information measurements based on the so-called mutual information, preferably at block-level, are introduced. The MI-based information m... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7676236 | Distributed hierarchical scheduling in an ad hoc network An ad hoc network with distributed hierarchical scheduling is disclosed. In one aspect, stations in a network mesh detect interfering neighbor stations and form interference lists. Stations transmit their interference lists. Scheduling stations schedule allocations ... | 03/09/2010 |
| RE41132 | Radio communication method including SDL having transmission rate of relatively high speed A large amount of user information is transmitted with good efficiency by means of a high-speed downlink by making transmission rates of an uplink circuit and a downlink asymmetrical. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7647061 | System, method and apparatus for reliable detection of extra system signals for a multi-node RLAN system A method of detecting extra-system signals in a multi-node RLAN (radio local area network) involves: at each of a plurality of nodes in the RLAN, processing at least one respective received signal to produce detection results and deciding whether an extra-system sig... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7634285 | Wireless communication system using channel access based on a contention approach and method thereof A wireless communication system using channel access based on a contention approach and method thereof is disclosed, which allocates plural sets of time slots in a predetermined contention interval, wherein each set of time slots further includes plural adjacent ove... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623880 | Method, apparatus and system for redistribution of mobile stations to different channels Method and apparatus for enhanced selection of a channel for use in redistributing mobile stations to various frequencies in a communication system. In one aspect, the method appends a redistribution alteration record to a common channel redistribution message. The ... | 11/24/2009 |
