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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7590427 | Method and apparatus for allocating at least one parameter to at least one transmission channel The present invention relates to a method for allocating at least one parameter to at least one transmission channel at an interface disposed between a first node and a second node of a transmission system, wherein the interface is connected to at least one link dis... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577453 | Wireless load balancing across bands 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... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574225 | Access point An access point (10) for providing a wireless LAN, comprising: a communication unit (110) that performs a wireless LAN communication; a status determination unit (120) that, constituted by separate from hardware constituting the communication un... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7558587 | System and method for dynamically selecting wireless information communication modes for a wireless communication device A system, method, and wireless device for dynamically selecting a wireless information communication mode for wireless communication of information to at least one wireless device (104). The method includes receiving at least one request for wireless communic... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551937 | Method and device for allocating radio resources in wireless portable network system Information for different subscribers of a service with the same modulation and channel encoding method is transmitted by allocating radio resources in a wireless portable Internet system. Also, identifier information on the subscriber of a concurrently allocated ra... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7536192 | Methods and apparatus for controlling IP applications during resources shortages This invention describes how combined session and resource tracking in a mobile node (MN) and/or basestation in a dynamic network resource environment can be used to control reactions to resource shortages. The session that is to experience a resource shortage is de... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532904 | 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 voice requ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529555 | Transmission rate determination method, and base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication system using the same The modulation/demodulation unit modulates information to be transmitted, or demodulates information received. The time slot control unit allocates time slots to the terminal apparatus. The control signal processing unit extracts a signal indicating a disconnection ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7454220 | 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... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443881 | Method and apparatus for interfacing synchronous core network with asynchronous radio network A method and apparatus for interfacing a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network in a next-generation mobile telecommunications system is disclosed. The method for mapping a message in order to interface a synchronous core network with an asynchr... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7437161 | Method of fast data transmission of mobile stations via the same base station In the method of packet transmission, data packet fragments received from a first mobile station are sent to a second mobile station without assembling and re-fragmenting the received data packet fragments if the first and second mobile stations are in a same cell. | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436809 | Communicating system, communicating method, base station, and mobile station A communicating system is disclosed. The communicating system has a base station and a plurality of mobile stations that radio-communicate through an uplink channel and a downlink channel with frames each of which is composed of a plurality of time divided slots, ea... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428228 | Method and apparatus for detecting active downlink channelization codes in a TD-CDMA mobile communication system A method and apparatus in a UE for detecting active channelization codes including channelization codes used by other UEs, which are different from at least one channelization code assigned to the UE, for transmission/reception to/from a Node B in an assigned time s... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424299 | System and method for slot allocation with reduced need for measurement In a communication system in which mobile terminals may roam throughout an area with a plurality of base stations with overlapping coverages and wherein the base stations employ multiplexed slots all in the same frequency range, a system and method for allocating sl... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423997 | Group scheduling in wireless communication systems A wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in frames comprising multiple sub-frames, including grouping a terminal in first and second groups, assigning the first and second groups to less than all sub-frames in a frame, assign... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418004 | Medium access control methods with quality of service and power management for wireless local area networks A MAC method has three procedures: a prioritization procedure, a collision resolution procedure, and a polling procedure. The prioritization procedure employs the handshaking method to ensure that a high priority station can join the polling list earlier than a low ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415046 | Method, apparatus and computer programs for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing A method, apparatus and computer program for multiplexing a number of second channels, in particular logical channels, in accordance with the UMTS protocol architecture for the air interface, onto a first channel, in particular a transport channel, in accordance wit... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415278 | Method and system for creating and deploying a mesh network A method and system for creating and deploying a mesh network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a mesh router having a plurality of radios. The mesh router is used in a cell of a plurality of cells that covers a geographic region. Chan... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415282 | Wireless communication system providing seamless switching between full-duplex and half-duplex modes A wireless communication system is disclosed comprising a call controller to establish a communication session in a first communication mode between two or more users; receive a request from at least one of the users to switch the first communication mode of the com... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406326 | Mobile communication system and control station In a mobile communication system 1 comprising a control station 204, a base station 201, and a mobile station 202, in which the control station 204 sets a dedicated channel with the mobile station 202 via the base station | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406325 | Method of allocating links in a 1x evdo system The present invention is directed to a method of allocating links in a base station of a 1×EVDO (EVolution Data Only) system. Conventionally, since a 1×EVDO system sequentially allocates a link to a user who requested a call setup irrespective of the link status, ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403497 | Data transport between a media gateway and server A system and method for reducing latency includes receiving at a gateway time division multiplexed data from multiple sender devices, the time division multiplexed data including payloads. The method also includes a generated packet that includes the payloads from t... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398061 | Method and apparatus for changing the behavior of an electronic device A novel apparatus and method for changing the behavior of an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, an electronic device includes the functionality of a cellular phone, a voice mail system and a calendar application. The device is configured to use the cal... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389088 | Method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same A method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same are provided. The method for controlling a power level of a signal to be transmitted to a remote Bluetooth device via a Bluetooth link, comprises: a local Bluetooth device for ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383047 | Interference-resistant wireless audio system and the method thereof An interference-resistant method for a wireless audio system capable of transforming an audio signal into an RF signal includes transforming the audio signal into a PCM signal, appending a first control signal to the PCM signal, and modulating the PCM signal with th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376435 | Transferring multiple data units over a wireless communication link A wireless communication system may include a first transceiver that may concurrently keep at least two data units, such as payloads of data pending for transfer to a second transceiver (e.g., a targeted wireless communication device) over a communication link (e.g.... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373111 | 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... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369485 | Wireless receiver for sorting packets A wireless receiver that sorts packets including a packet detector, multiple correlators, and multiple packet processors. Each correlator correlates a received signal according to packet type. Each packet processor processes the received signal according to packet t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369508 | Informing network about amount of data to be transferred When uplink signalling radio bearers steal capacity from a user bearer, at least the amount of data waiting for transmission on a TBF established for the user bearer should be informed to the network. This can be done by using separate countdown values for each radi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366469 | Method and apparatus for transmitting high rate packet data over under-utilized virtual circuits A method for communicating data in a wireless communications system having a base station communicating to at least one of a plurality of terminals over a set of carrier frequencies, the method comprising periodically monitoring the carrier energy level of each said... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366532 | Group call management through receive/transmit synchronization A method of communicating with a transceiver (120). In one arrangement, the method of communicating with the transceiver can be performed in a systemless group environment. Synchronization information (150) can be received from a mobile transceiver ( | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366543 | Method for allocating channels, and base station apparatus and communication system utilizing the channel allocating method A demodulator performs a demodulation processing on received signals. A quality detector detects the line quality of a communication line. An application detector detects application information set within the received signal. A storage is a storage medium that stor... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366534 | Wireless communication apparatus, method thereof, and wireless communication system employing the same A wireless communication apparatus, a method thereof, and a wireless communication system employing the same. The wireless communication apparatus for transmitting and receiving data wirelessly includes a transmitting portion for transmitting the data through at lea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366533 | Methods for providing access to wireless resources in a trunked radio communication system Methods are disclosed for providing requested access, network-initiated access and autonomous access to communication resources (101-105) by wireless communication unit(s) (112, 114), and for controlling the different types of access using acces... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362729 | Mobile node, mobile communication system, and communication control program In a state I, a link layer of a mobile host is connected to an access router and a default router is set to the access router such that data packets (P1) and (P2) reach the access router and are routed to a correspondent host. In states II and III, dat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363047 | Apparatus and method for establishing feedback in a broadcast or multicast service A method and apparatus for establishing feedback channels in an MBMS (multimedia broadcast/multicast service) for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) by selectively establishing RRC connections with terminals that are capable of transmitting uplink feed... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362720 | Radio terminal unit and radio communication system A radio terminal unit and a radio communication system, enabling power savings, the improvement of the quality of real-time communication, and the reduction of transmission delays. An operation mode determination section determines whether real-time processing is ne... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363046 | Clear channel assessment A clear channel assessment procedure is described. The procedure includes setting a threshold value of signal strength. When a message is ready to transmit, the received signal strength intensity (RSSI) is measured, and compared with the threshold. If the received s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359349 | Base station, radio resource control equipment, mobile station, communication system, and communication method A base station includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a quantity of stored packets from a mobile station, the quantity of stored packets being stored in a buffer for storing the packets transmitted by the mobile station; a radio resource controller for allocati... | 04/15/2008 |
