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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190186 | Wireless communication system, weak radio wave communication device, mobile terminal device, base station device, and program In a communication system environment, access points which transmit/receive information by wireless communication, a mobile terminal which moves in a utilization environment and transmits/receives information by wireless communication, and a wireless tag of a weak r... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8131312 | Method and system for construction of radio environment model A system and method for constructing a signal propagation model in a wireless communication system such as a cellular system based on at least one received wireless signal correlated to a geographic location. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116796 | Multi-transceiver portable radio communications device and related method A portable radio communications device is for transmitting data and voice communications. The portable radio communications device may include a portable housing, a radio transceiver operating at a frequency in a range of 30 MHz-3000 MHz and being carried by the por... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116797 | 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... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8099119 | Hybrid, multiple channel, and two-step channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback schemes A method providing channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback from subscriber stations (SSs) to a base station (BS) may include a combination of a thresholding scheme and a best-M scheme. Another method providing CQI feedback may include providing multiple feedback ch... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8050698 | Peer-to-peer neighbor detection for proximity-based command execution An apparatus and methods are disclosed for enabling the response to a command at a personal wireless terminal to be based at least partially on the presence or absence of other users nearby, and possibly the identity of those users. In the illustrated embodiment, th... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041375 | Methods and apparatus for use in peer to peer communications devices and/or systems relating to rate scheduling, traffic scheduling, rate control, and/or power control Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. Embodiments directed to methods and apparatus for establishing traffic data transmission rates and/or transmission power levels between wireless terminals is described. Embodiments d... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036691 | Method for data transmission in a radio communication system as well as radio station and radio communications system A first signal containing first data multiplied by a first weight factor is transmitted from a first radio station to a first terminal. The first weight factor is calculated taking into account a second weight factor to be used by a second radio station for transmis... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023977 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes use of an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programmin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010141 | 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... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000731 | System and method for managing affiliation requests in a communication system A system and method for managing call affiliation in a communication system having a plurality of communication units. When a public call announcement is initiated, a broadcast data message is transmitted to the communication units identifying a public announcement ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991415 | Transmission rate control method, radio base station and radio network controller The present invention provides a transmission rate control method for controlling the transmission rate of uplink user data, including the step of; a radio network controller notifies to a radio base station and a mobile station an effective period of an absolute tr... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983704 | Methods and apparatus for performing a subscriber identity module (SIM) initialization procedure Methods and apparatus for performing a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) initialization procedure are described. A terminal profile having a most recent release version format is communicated to a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). An error from the SIM is detected in... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7920885 | Method and system for establishing a connection on a secondary frequency channel for wireless communication A method and system for establishing a subnet in a wireless network is provided for wireless transmission of information between two stations in the network. A subnet access process in a wireless communication system establishes a subnet comprising a direct wireless... | 04/05/2011 |
| RE42225 | System and method for timing detector measurements in a wireless communication system A system that provides a wireless broadband connection between base stations and customer sites is described. The system includes indoor units within the base stations and customer sites and communicate across cables to outdoor units. The indoor units link to router... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7877106 | System and method for peer-to-peer communication in cellular systems Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resourc... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7860523 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broa... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856242 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broa... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7797005 | Methods, systems and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event A method and system provide interactive participation during activity occurring at a college campus venue. Enjoyment for a plurality of enrolled participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792539 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event A method and system provide interactive participation during activity occurring at a college campus venue. Enjoyment for a plurality of enrolled participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7769402 | Adaptive bearer configuration for broadcast/multicast service using received response information A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity (103) wherein a plurality of common radio resources (303 | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756537 | Group details of group services A server for a communication system is disclosed. The server is configured to receive group communication information comprising a group detail indicator. The group detail indicator provides information on at least an identity of a group and a type of the group. The... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756538 | Wide area network handset assisted content delivery system and method of using same A wide area network assisted multimedia content delivery system (200) includes a first wide area network handset (205) and a second wide area network handset (207) having one or more transceivers (208) for exchanging information over the ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751840 | Wireless communiction device, wireless communicatin method, and computer program An own-group storage area in which beacon information concerning a group of the own device is stored and an other-groups storage area in which beacon information concerning other groups different from the group of the own device is stored are allocated to a memory a... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747267 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing system information advertisement extension for dynamic networks Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for using access point availability information in a wireless communications system. In aspects of the method performed at an access point in a wireless communications system, the access point gen... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734305 | Communication network terminal supporting a plurality of applications A terminal for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications and communicating user messages. The terminal is configured to receive user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications and address... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706824 | Requesting and controlling access in a wireless communications network A method, a computer program product and a device for requesting access to a node (BS) of a wireless communications network (10) are described. In the network (10) identification codes are used to differentiate access requests of different network comp... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693532 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broa... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684814 | System, apparatus, and method for enhancing mobile communication terminal push to talk service Disclosed is a system, apparatus, and method for enhancing a mobile communication terminal PTT service which includes a Voice Message System (VMS) server for storing a voice message sent from a sender's terminal when a recipient's terminal is in a receive-not-ready ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684813 | Method and apparatus for establishing direct communication for mobiles in a radio communication system A radiotelephone method includes detecting other mobile stations and identifying possible relay candidates among the other mobile stations. The method then includes communicating information about the candidates to a base station. Communication with a second mobile ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660597 | Internet telephone system, call connection controller, terminal association method used therein and its program A PBX, when notified information of an originating manipulation such as dialing of a receiver's number from a keyboard connected with a PC, judges whether an origination request is from the PC or a first terminal. In a case of the request being from the PC, the PBX ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7599702 | SIR estimates for non-scheduled mobile terminals A base station schedules one of a plurality of mobile terminals based on an expected SIR of an effective traffic channel associated with a non-scheduled mobile terminal. The expected SIR is generated by computing the expected SIR of a hypothesized traffic channel wi... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7587214 | Method and apparatus for interactive participation at a live entertainment event A method and apparatus provide interactive participation at live entertainment events. Enjoyment for a plurality of participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include user input and output interf... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580720 | Method and system for protocol feature communication Systems and methods for communicating support or absence of support of a plurality of protocol features are disclosed. Generally, a plurality of bits is received, each individual bit indicating support or absence of support of a different protocol features. The rece... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574226 | System and method for mobile communication Pluralities of state update frames are defined. The base station is configured to transmit a state update data to instruct the mobile station to be set to either an active state or a suspended state, in the state update frames. The base station is configured to tran... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7548758 | System and method for peer-to-peer communication in cellular systems Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resourc... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7526305 | Push-to-talk handling in a dual processor environment In a push-to-talk device having two processors where one of the processors is a radio chip and one of the processors is a microprocessor, a method and apparatus for synchronizing the microprocessor and the radio chip includes the steps of checking the status of a ra... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522929 | Communication apparatus configured to perform communication with a vicinal communication apparatus A communication apparatus includes a reception strength judgment unit for judging reception strength representing strength of a wireless MAC frame containing an IP address for identifying a connection candidate communication apparatus received from one or a pluralit... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522930 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broa... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7509137 | Method and system for address translation and aliasing to efficiently utilize UFMI address space An address server comprising a UFMI server application adapted to allocate an inter-working UFMI to an iDEN subscriber unit and map the inter-working UFMI to an external subscriber address. The inter-working UFMI is associated with an iDEN network, and the external ... | 03/24/2009 |
