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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43369 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43342 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8145248 | Apparatus and method for uplink beamforming and Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication systems An apparatus and method for beamforming of a terminal in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting sounding signals beamformed through a plurality of beamforming weight vectors in sequence, r... | 03/27/2012 |
| RE43138 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099118 | Methods and apparatus for prioritizing voice call requests during data communication sessions with a mobile device A voice call request for a voice call involving the mobile device is received in a wireless network while the mobile device is engaged in a connected data communication service via the wireless network. The service utilizes a radio traffic channel between the mobile... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8050696 | System and method for wirelessly transferring content to and from an aircraft A system and method for wirelessly transferring content to and from a vehicle, in particular, an aircraft. The content includes, for example, data, voice, video and multimedia, that can be wirelessly exchanged over a wireless communication link between an aircraft a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036690 | Download prioritization for intelligent content distribution Systems and methods for transmitting multimedia data are disclosed which, in some embodiments, may comprise polling a first wireless device to obtain at least a first statistics of consumption of content previously transmitted to the first wireless device and pollin... | 10/11/2011 |
| RE42374 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/17/2011 |
| RE42326 | Mobile communication system enabling efficient use of small-zone base stations A mobile communication system includes a plurality of radio base stations forming respective radio zones and a mobile station selecting a wait zone and a base station to which a request for a message channel is to be issued. Each of the plurality of radio base stati... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7920883 | Coordination of transmissions in wireless communications devices Techniques involving network access are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include first and second transceivers, a first control module, and a second control module. Each transceiver may send one or more wireless transmissions, which are scheduled by the con... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7844290 | Method for establishing call connection in wireless terminal Disclosed is a method for establishing a call connection in a wireless terminal, which can make a call connection using one line number when a call connection fails through another line number in a wireless terminal subscribing to a service in which the portable ter... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835760 | Systems and methods for facilitating communications over a shared channel A node may include a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted from a gateway and a logic device coupled to the receiver. The node may also include a memory configured to store label information identifying a data packet stored in the node. The logic device... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831268 | Routing communication based on urgency priority level Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products route communication based on an urgency priority associated with a sender of the communication. The method involves receiving incoming communication, identifying the sender, determining an urgency priority des... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822430 | Ultra wide band device and detect-and-avoid method thereof An ultra wide band (UWB) device and a detect and avoid (DAA) method thereof are provided. The UWB device includes a detect and avoid (DAA) module block which detects a strength of radio signals received in a plurality of channels and determines communicability of th... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809387 | Methods and apparatus for prioritizing voice call requests during data communication sessions with a mobile device Methods and apparatus for prioritizing voice call requests during data communication sessions involving a mobile communication device are disclosed. In one illustrative example, an end user invokes a voice call request though a user interface of the mobile device. I... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7769401 | Power management and distributed scheduling for uplink transmissions in wireless systems To schedule uplink transmission time slots for a collection of mobile communication devices, a set of base station target interference patterns is associated with base stations. A time slot target interference pattern is assigned for each time slot and it repeats af... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7738891 | System, apparatus, and method for dynamically configuring application access point settings Systems, apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for dynamically customizing and/or configuring applications on devices. Current access point information associated with the terminal is transmitted from the terminal. In response to providing this current... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7676237 | Routing communication based on urgency priority level Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products route communication based on an urgency priority associated with a sender of the communication. The method involves receiving incoming communication, identifying the sender, determining an urgency priority des... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7587213 | Apparatus and a method for controlling a priority access and channel assignment call in a mobile telecommunication system Disclosed is a method for controlling a PACA call in a mobile telecommunications system, which comprises: sending a new origination message from a mobile station in a PACA state to a base station; sending a service request message for a PACA call from the base stati... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7565160 | System and method of handling prioritized wireless calls for mobile devices operating in an analog or TDMA mode An improved method and system are disclosed for processing prioritized wireless calls. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method of providing prioritized wireless services, comprising the steps of: receiving a request for prioritized wireless service... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7565161 | Method and system for wireless priority call processing A method and system for processing calls in a wireless network having a priority call system are provided. The system includes receiving means for receiving a message with an ordered resource list, first determining means for determining what resources are available... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558588 | Resource allocation in a radio access network In a radio access network, techniques for enabling the network to provide a service availability guarantee to a user of a premium service without requiring the network to identify a priority level of a connection with an access terminal associated with the premium s... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7444158 | Communication apparatus and method, and program thereof In order to easily and promptly make a connection to a station which a user desires and in a good communication condition, there is provided a communication apparatus applicable to a PDA having a wireless communication function, which includes setting means for sett... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440436 | Self-organizing multi-channel mesh network A system for self-organizing and auto-configuring mesh networks is disclosed. Special nodes (deemed special for their topological significance) are used as a starting point for forming clusters of fully connected nodes. Here, all nodes can communicate directly with ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437157 | Method and system for wireless admission control based on fixed or mobile nature of wireless communication devices A method and system for wireless admission control. The system monitors the air interface load in various wireless coverage areas, such as sectors for instance. When the load exceeds a designated level, the system begins making call admission decisions based on whet... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430427 | Radio resource management scheduler using object request broker methodology A method for scheduling RRM procedures in a wireless communication system begins by receiving at least one trigger, each trigger being associated with at least one RRM procedure. A radio link is placed into a busy state, whereby the radio link is accessible only by ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411961 | Apparatus and method for scheduling forward channel transmissions in a wireless network base station An apparatus and method for controlling the transmission of data packets from a base station in a wireless network to a plurality of mobile stations in a coverage area of the wireless network. The apparatus comprises a transmission scheduler for accessing a pluralit... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412251 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system adopting the same and communication method thereof A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system adopting the same and a communication method thereof are provided. In the wireless communication system, a slave device transmits a predetermined priority to the master device, and a master device r... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7383054 | Apparatus of public land mobile network selection and method of the same A method and an apparatus for selecting a public land mobile network (PLMN) for a mobile station are provided. The method and the apparatus according to this invention use the first and the second system information included in the broadcasting information broadcast... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373181 | Method and apparatus for sender controllable modalities A method and apparatus (110) for sender controllable modalities includes the step of generating a communication command (108). The method and apparatus further includes generating a priority command (110) wherein the priority command includes a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373179 | Call queue in a wireless device A wireless phone includes a memory, a processor, and a call queue function, the call queue function to enable the configuration and storage in the memory of a call queue, the call queue comprising an ordered list of entries to dial, wherein the processor and the mem... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369826 | Method for monitoring broadcast signals at alternative frequencies and gain control unit Many broadcast stations transmit their programs via a variety of different frequencies. The invention relates to monitoring alternative frequencies during the reception of a broadcast signal at a present frequency. Whenever the broadcast signal at an alternative fre... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7366782 | Systems and methods for termination of session initiation protocol Systems for graceful termination of support for session initiation protocol communications on a server are described. Systems include techniques for setting a time period for gracefully terminating such support, for sending a service unavailable message to a client,... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366548 | Method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call upon movement of the mobile unit The present invention provides a method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call. A mobile unit receives a call request. If the mobile unit does not answer the call request and the mobile unit is stationary, the mobile unit waits for the mobile unit to move. Upon... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356346 | Method of uplink scheduling for data communication A method of scheduling data communication over an uplink. The method enables two or more users seeking to transmit data over the uplink to be scheduled in response to their path loss. The user having the most attractive determined path loss among the two or more use... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353038 | Method and apparatus for indicating an expected level of quality in a private push to talk (PTT) network A method and apparatus for indicating an expected level of quality in a private Push To Talk (PTT) network are disclosed. The method and apparatus receive at least one of an affiliation message and a talkgroup call request for a first subscriber unit of the private ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349333 | Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell resources Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343163 | Adaptive channel access scheme An adaptive channel access scheme allows for statistics that are collected to be used to group radio users into subgroups according to the desired statistic. The subgroups then utilize channels, separated by time or frequency, to access the communication system (... | 03/11/2008 |
