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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7079507 | Method and apparatus for common packet channel assignment A method and device for initiating uplink data packet communication from a mobile device to a base station on a common packet channel is disclosed. The communication is initiated when the mobile device reads broadcast status of common packet channels, after which th... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079509 | 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... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079809 | Systems and methods for providing improved wireless signal quality using diverse antenna beams The present invention is directed to wireless communication, and more particularly, to providing improved signal quality using antenna beam selection and/or switching techniques. Embodiments of the present invention may measure the carrier-to-interference (C/I) leve... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079855 | Method for operating a GSM mobile radio system The invention relates to a method for operating a GSM mobile radio system, according to which at least one transmitter, which is allocated to a reference time generator, emits a signal including information concerning a reference time. The signal including the afore... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079856 | Data flow control between a base station and a mobile station A method of data flow control between a mobile and base station of a wireless communication system where the mobile is transferring wirelessly part or all of the data received from the base station to a local device in accordance with a standard such as Bluetooth or... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072660 | Code reuse apparatus in CDMA wireless communication system using beamforming by antenna array and code reuse method therefor A code reuse apparatus in a code division multiple access wireless communication system using beamforming by an antenna array and a code reuse method therefor, wherein the method includes examining a spatial correlation between a new mobile station requesting commun... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072677 | Method of operating searcher in a mobile communication system Disclosed is a method of operating searchers, and setting a search information list and searching channels for the same. In a communication system, a method of searching channels, comprises the steps of generating a queue of priorities for each search mode, allocati... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072323 | System and method for performing soft handoff in a wireless data network A communications network which is capable of effectively and efficiently handling mobility of wireless user terminals between access point nodes of a packet-switched network with minimal overhead and packet loss, and a method for using the same. The communications n... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072432 | System and method for correcting the clock drift and maintaining the synchronization of low quality clocks in wireless networks A system and method for establishing and maintaining node clock synchronization in a wireless network. The system and method calculates the clock shift, clock drift and propagation delay values using a series of message exchanges and control algorithms between a sel... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072618 | Adaptive threshold selection system and method for detection of a signal in the presence of interference A system and method for providing adaptive threshold selection for detecting a signal in the presence of interference or noise. The system and method thus enables a node, such as a mobile user terminal, in an ad-hoc communications network to reduce the number of fal... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072650 | Ad hoc peer-to-peer mobile radio access system interfaced to the PSTN and cellular networks An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio access system for cellular communications systems using time division duplex as a way of maximizing the bits/hz/km2 for cellular systems. The network architecture of the ad-hoc system allows the radio access to be integrated with the fi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069012 | CDMA cellular system in which different channel is allocated A CDMA cellular system includes a plurality of base station control apparatuses, each of which is provided for a service area of cells, and a plurality of radio base stations, each of which is provided for one of the cells and is connected with one of the plurality ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069050 | Antenna transmission and reception system A transmitter of a base station includes a data serial-to-parallel converter, M modulators, M beam formers, and transmission antennas. The data serial-to-parallel converter converts transmission data into M sequences. Each modulator modulates the transmission data. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069049 | Apparatus and method for controlling duplication structure of base station transceiver subsystem in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for controlling a duplication structure of a Base station Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) is provided. The BTS has N number of sectors including a first sector to an Nth sector and M number of Frequency Assignments (FAs) including a first FA to a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065366 | Signaling connection admission control in a wireless network A method for admission control of control plane signaling requests includes receiving a signaling request. Upon receipt of the signaling connection request, a first determination is performed to determine whether to provide admission to common resources. When the fi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065367 | Interface selection in a wireless communication network This disclosure is directed to techniques for selection of wireless network interfaces for data communication within an access terminal. The techniques may rely on a set of interface selection rules to identify network interfaces that are eligible to serve a particu... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065377 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power of control information in a mobile communication system A base station apparatus for controlling power of individual control information transmitted to mobile stations. A first mobile station receives its own control information, and a second mobile station receives its own control information and control information for... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065365 | Code tree fragmentation in call admission control The invention provides various embodiments for radio resource management. In one embodiment, resources are assigned to users in a slotted wireless communication system having candidate timeslots. An interference level is determined for each candidate timeslot. An am... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065525 | Information service system for providing terminal users with terminal user specific information An information service system having user terminals and a center in which information according to a request for retrieval is provided to users at a low cost while simplifying setting of conditions for retrieval at the user terminals is simplified and maintaining re... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065061 | System and method for providing data services using idle cell resources Providing data services using idle cell capacity in a cellular communications system. The system and method assign priorities to each remote user device in the cellular communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user device, the mobile ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065066 | Communication method, communication terminal, wireless ad-hoc network and cellular phone Group communication is performed in the wireless ad-hoc network that has a rearrangement frequency of connection higher than the communication frequency due to the movement of communication terminals 101 to 116. Communication terminals 101 to | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062278 | Method and arrangement for allocation of resources in a radio communication system A method and arrangement for fair control of resources amongst users with different instantaneous throughputs in a radio communication system such as a UMTS system. Respective indications of users among whom resources are to be allocated are placed in a ‘round rob... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062252 | Capacity optimization of a wired cellular network A base-station transceiver system (BTS) operative in a cellular telephone network, consisting of a main up-link port and a diversity up-link port which are adapted to operate cooperatively to receive up-link signals over-the-air from cellular telephones such that bo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062548 | Multimedia communications resource management control system and method A system for management and control of multimedia communications resources comprising a communications pathway, an originating multimedia computing device coupled to the communications pathway with desired quality of service requirements, one or more destination mul... | 06/13/2006 |
| RE39119 | Radio communication system 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 ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058416 | Traffic channel allocating method in GSM mobile communication The present invention relates to a method for allocating a traffic channel in a concentric cell. Said method comprises the following steps: establishing a SDCCH (Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel) between the base station and the mobile station; the base station... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058412 | Combined advertising and entertainment system network A wireless remote unit is operable to demodulate signals received over a plurality of different bands, such as the FM broadcast band, and one or more higher frequency bands. The various bands have different channels and the selection of the band and the channel is a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058018 | System and method for using per-packet receive signal strength indication and transmit power levels to compute path loss for a link for use in layer II routing in a wireless communication network A system and method for evaluating at least one communication link between a transmitting node and a receiving node in a communications network, such as a wireless ad-hoc communications network in accordance with the 802.11 standard. The system and method perform th... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058031 | Method and apparatus for efficient use of communication resources in a data communication system under overload conditions In a communication system (1400) for communication of data, a method and apparatus provide for detecting a request for opening a connection for a user (1407) for communication of data, selecting an open connection, releasing the selected open connectio... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053768 | Detecting communications disconnect and enabling wireless emergency call A process of detecting and communicating alarm events by a security system is disclosed. Sensors in communication with the security system are monitored, where specific changes in outputs of the sensors indicate an alarm event. It is determined whether a landline co... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054643 | System for rate control of multicast data delivery in a wireless network The present invention provides methods and apparatus for transmitting multicast data over a wireless channel. At least one wireless terminal requests a multicast service corresponding to at least one requested layer. A wireless infrastructure comprising a base stati... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054316 | Method and system for interlayer control between re-sequencing and retransmission entities The present invention is related to a method and system for interlayer control where a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is received from a lower protocol layer at a upper layer where the lower and upper layer are both involved in a retransmission function, a re-sequencing f... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054126 | System and method for improving the accuracy of time of arrival measurements in a wireless ad-hoc communications network A system and method for improved Time Of Arrival (TOA) distance measurements between nodes of a wireless ad-hoc network. Specifically, the present invention is a system and method of distance estimation using square-root raised-cosine pulse shaping and chip matched ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054625 | Wireless communication system, wireless microphone, and wireless microphone control method Herein disclosed is a wireless microphone for receiving a sound signal and transmitting a radio signal and operable in combination with an acoustic operation unit to output a control signal, including a modulating unit for modulating the radio signal with the sound ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054640 | Method for accessing by stations of common transmission medium and network station for performing method Available transfer capacity is apportioned efficiently by stations informing each other of their capacity needs by sending messages when necessary. The sent messages can contain information on priority and capacity requirement. Stations which receive the sent capaci... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054641 | Communications system load control methods and apparatus A communication system (100) includes an aircraft (120) that acts as a repeater between ground equipment (101) and communication units (128) on the ground. The ground equipment (101) includes multiple base transceiver stations (... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050480 | Code assignment algorithm for synchronous DS-CDMA links with SDMA using estimated spatial signature vectors A method is disclosed for operating a synchronous space division multiple access, code division multiple access communications system. The method operates, within a coverage area of a base station (BS) or radio base unit (RBU) having a multi-element antenna array, f... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049981 | Electronic navigation system and method The invention provides a method and system for providing route guidance and other information from a base unit to a remote unit in response to a request from the remote unit. A query is formatted at the remote unit, the query including the request, and is transmitte... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050814 | Mobile radio telecommunication system with improved uplink resource allocation In a heterogeneous mobile telecommunication system such as the Universal Mobile Telephone system, a system and method of resource allocation comprising the steps of determining the current proportion of each rate traffic for a telecommunication cell; the base transc... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047042 | Method and apparatus for equalization in transmit and receive levels in a broadband transceiver system A method (100) for amplitude equalization in transmit and receive levels in a base station wideband transceiver (50) includes the step of assigning (102) a plurality of transmit and receive carrier frequencies to the base station wideband transc... | 05/16/2006 |
