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...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175627 | Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in wireless sensor network A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The method typically includes the steps of: ascertaining characteristics of data whose transfer is requested; ascertaining a Link Quality Indication Value (LQIV); determining ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150435 | Reporting channel quality information The present disclosure relates to a method of transmitting channel quality data for channels in a wireless communication system, and to a corresponding receiver and transmitter. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a plurality of channel quality indica... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8103297 | Mobile communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus A mobile station apparatus which transmits, to a base station apparatus, periodically first reception quality information using a physical uplink control channel according to a first instruction to transmit the first reception quality information included in a radio... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090395 | Scanning channels while a device is out of service A channel scanning order is dynamically created, modified, selectively ignored, or combinations thereof based on historical data, motion information, context information, alert message systems, network reselection, or combinations thereof. If a less preferred networ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8050697 | Multi-antenna scheduling system and method A wireless communication method and system using virtual MIMO (“V-MIMO”) are provided. Post processing signal to interference and noise ratios (“SINR”) for a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of mobile terminals arranged as a V-MIMO group are... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8014804 | Associating a wireless station with an access point A station associates with an access point in a wireless local area network conforming to, e.g., an IEEE 802.11 standard. The station measures the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the downlink from each of the access points sending either a beacon or a probe response,... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010140 | Method of space division multiple access communication using user cooperation and system of enabling the method A communication device using user cooperation is provided with a channel information reception unit to receive channel information from a plurality of member terminals within the same group, the channel information being associated with a radio channel formed betwee... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7865203 | Method for grouping wireless devices and apparatus thereof A method for grouping wireless devices and an apparatus thereof are provided. First, the feature values of a plurality of access points (APs) detected by a wireless device are received, wherein these APs are designated as a first set, and the feature values of the A... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856241 | Mobile communication system, radio base station, scheduling apparatus, scheduling method employed in the same, and program thereof The invention provides a radio base station which can achieve high throughput while attaining the target quality for each mobile station and fairly assigning a transmission opportunity. In the radio base station, when a mobile station selection unit is notified at a... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7783312 | Data throughput improvement in IS2000 networks via effective F-SCH reduced active set pilot switching Systems and methods for improving the performance of wireless telecommunications networks by reducing data communications between a mobile station and a base station. One embodiment of the invention is implemented in an IS2000 (cdma2000) network. This network commun... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7653404 | Analyzing technology of radio wave in wireless information communication To provide a technique for analyzing radio wave condition affording improved accuracy of discrimination of radio wave propagation condition on a per-channel basis. Analyzer device 10 for analyzing the condition of radio waves used for wireless LAN comm... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7526303 | Method and apparatus to manage power in a communication system Method and apparatus to manage power for a communication device having multiple radios are described. ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7499718 | Enhanced coverage hole detection in wireless networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to identifying coverage holes in wireless networks. According to one implementation of the present invention, the wireless network infrastructure analyzes signal strength data to detect potential coverage holes associated wi... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7450958 | Method for displaying received signal strength bars in wireless terminal device Disclosed is a method for displaying signal strength bars in a wireless terminal device. In the first step, RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) values of the wireless terminal device consecutively collected for a predetermined time T are analyzed, and C/I (Car... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447512 | Method and system for allocation of resources within wireless systems Method and system are described to determine a signal quality for nodes of a network. In one embodiment, a signal quality for nodes of a network is determined. The nodes are ranked based on the signal quality. Information from a node at a device is received; the inf... | 11/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7444150 | Cell reselection with power scan and parallel decoding Upon power on, a terminal performs cell selection, finds the most suitable cell to receive communication service, and camps on this cell (the serving cell). The terminal thereafter performs “C2-based” cell reselection if a better cell is found, “non-C2 based... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433324 | User experience for collaborative ad-hoc networks A system and method for creating an ad-hoc network is described. A user may navigate a number of options to create an ad-hoc network and/or join an ad-hoc network using the described system. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7428269 | CQI and rank prediction for list sphere decoding and ML MIMO receivers Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate integrating a list-sphere decoding design in a multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication environment. According to various aspects, optimal rank selection and CQI computation for an optimal r... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428423 | Communication system with controlled talk around mode The method provides talk around in an OFDMA communication system by sending a talk around request from a subscriber unit to a base unit. At the subscriber unit a RSSI (received signal strength indication) of a signal received from the base unit is determined and sen... | 09/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7428409 | Method of obtaining user data to be transmitted to a network side, and a radio control base station To provide a method of obtaining user data to be transmitted to a network side, which can simplify the processing for selecting and combining optimum user data from user data including a transport block transmitted from the same mobile terminal, to minimize a delay.... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426399 | Mobile communications system, radio base station, scheduling apparatus, scheduling method employed in the same, and program therefor The present invention provides a radio base station which can equally assign a transmission opportunity based on the radio channel quality. A mobile station selection unit issues a request for a metric notification to a metric notification unit corresponding to a mo... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417963 | Resource control system, resource control method, and base station and mobile station suitable for use in the same An object of the present invention is to enable the improvement of Qos and efficient use of resources with regard to the entire system by performing resource control of an own cell in cooperation with that of peripheral cells. The present invention provides a resour... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7395064 | Systems and methods of distributed self-configuration for wireless networks An embodiment selects one or more radio frequency parameters that may be optimal for a wireless network of access points and clients. Various methods, systems, and/or computer-readable media may implement operational embodiments. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394801 | Cell search method suitable for initial cell search and target cell search A wireless device generates a peak profile for a primary synchronization channel (PSCH), and has a synchronization stage for performing code group identification and scrambling code identification. A first peak from the peak profile is chosen. The first peak has a f... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395063 | Method and device for a shared radio network Method and device, respectively, for determining which one of the owners of a shared radio network that a visiting mobile terminal (MT), which MT is not subscribed to any of the owners of said shared radio network, is going to be connected to, by deriving informatio... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385944 | Method of interference cancellation in communication systems In a method of canceling interference, a base station selects a known highest data rate user transmission from a received first signal containing a group of user transmissions. The known highest rate user transmission may be configured as one or more frames, each fr... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386329 | Wireless communication apparatus and method of wireless communication One of objects of a wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention is to realize stable communication regardless of received signal strength indication and information amount. The wireless communication apparatus for communicating in an autonomo... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379430 | Dual band unidirectional scheme in a cellular mobile radio telecommunications system A cellular radio telecommunications system and method of operating the same is described which includes a first cellular radio telecommunications network for providing frequency division duplex radio transmissions over an air interface to one or more fixed or mobile... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7349380 | System and method for providing an addressing and proxy scheme for facilitating mobility of wireless nodes between wired access points on a core network of a communications 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... | 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 |
| 7342958 | System and method for enhancing throughput in an additive gaussian noise channel with a predetermined rate set and unknown interference A system for, and method of, determining channel throughput achievable under superposition coding given a finite, predetermined set of allowed transmission rates and a related system for, and method of, maximizing channel throughput. In one embodiment, the system in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333813 | Methods and devices for assigning mobile devices to base stations in the presence of interference Mobile devices are assigned to their correct base stations after taking into consideration interference from all other mobile devices. The resulting assignments are more efficient than previous assignments. In addition, transmit power levels are assigned after each ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330710 | Private emergency or service-specific call approach in GSM systems A technique for implementing Special Call Services (SCS) to extend wireless system functionality to include private emergency or other types of service-specific special calls in a private network. In a preferred embodiment, the capability is implemented by taking ad... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324819 | Communication terminal, and communication computer program product A communication terminal has an acquiring unit configured to acquire information related to a strength of a radio wave received, a selecting unit configured to select a data communication route based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit, and a storage u... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315744 | System and method for minimizing hardware and maximizing capacity in a wireless communications system A system for improving the efficiency of a wireless communications network that employs a plurality of frequencies per cell. The system includes a first mechanism that monitors the network load associated with each of the plurality of frequencies and provides corres... | 01/01/2008 |
