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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190189 | Power management in low power wireless link The invention relates to a communication system comprising a first and a second communication device, each comprising transmit and receive units for establishing a wireless link between the devices, wherein the first device is a portable listening device. The invent... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190190 | Fast adaptive power control for a variable multirate communications system A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190187 | Communication apparatus, base station apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus includes a judgment section which judges the state of receiving a downlink control channel from a base station, and a power control section which does not assign transmission power to at least the top one time block in a frame transmitted t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190188 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving information about forward channel status in a multi-carrier mobile communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving forward channel status information in a multi-carrier mobile communication system. An MS transmits to a BS forward channel status information representing an average C/I of forward signals with respect to a plura... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185146 | Quality of service based downlink power allocation A first wireless device associated with a first profile is communicated with using a first transmitted power. A second wireless device associated with a second profile is communicated with using a second transmitted power. A third transmitted power is determined. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185145 | Dynamic overhead channel power control Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically adjusting power allocated for overhead communications in a sector of a radio access network (RAN). An exemplary method involves (a) detecting a switch to RC4 for resource allocation in a given sector; (b) in r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180389 | Apparatus for adjusting channel interference between devices in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175630 | Method of closed loop power control adjusted by self-interference A method and apparatus for controlling the transmit power of a mobile device in a mobile communication network takes the level of self-interference into account to perform inner-loop power control. For normal inner-loop power control, a signal quality estimate is co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170598 | Information sharing in a private access point network This description relates to information sharing in a private access point network. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170601 | Signal transmission parameter control using channel sounding A base station (BTS) may instruct a client station (CS) to transmit sounding signals that the BTS may analyze to determine what adjustments, such as power, time, and/or frequency adjustment(s) should be made by the CS. The BTS may control when and how the sounding s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170599 | Format based power control Power control methods and apparatus taught herein advantageously provide quick convergence to the signal quality target needed to achieve a given data error rate target, when changes in transport format use by a given transport channel require such convergence. Spec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170597 | Method and apparatus for jointly controlling transmit power in cognitive radio communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling power in a cognitive radio wireless communication system, the method comprising: performing channel scheduling and the first power control for at least one terminal; checking whether the at least one terminal exist... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170600 | Method and apparatus for allocating downlink power in wireless communication system A method and apparatus of allocating downlink power in a radio access station system are disclosed. The method of allocating transmission power to a plurality of terminals in a radio access station system according to the present invention includes (A-1) calculating... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165619 | Power allocation for power control bits in a cellular network A power allocation value for power control information transmitted from a first station to a plurality of stations is determined by receiving data rate control information from the plurality of stations in a communications system. Supplemental information relating t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160632 | Method for controlling power in dual-standby mode mobile terminal and apparatus thereof The present invention relates to a method for controlling a transmission power of a dual standby mode mobile terminal. A method of controlling a transmission power of the invention includes performing a conversation standby service with a first communications networ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160630 | Method and arrangement for controlling transmission power and a network element This invention relates to a method and arrangement for controlling transmission power in a mobile communications system, and to a network element. In the method according to the invention a certain target level is defined for a value representing the quality of a si... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160629 | Controlling reverse link interference in private access points for wireless networking In a radio access network in which a first access terminal uses a first access point to access the network and a second access terminal uses a second access point to access the network, interference is reduced in communications between the first access terminal and ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160634 | Intelligent power control in a wireless network A method and system is disclosed for intelligent power control in a wireless communication system. In accordance with an example embodiment, a first device will operate in a dynamic-power state in which it transmits a power-increment command or power-decrement comma... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160631 | Power control for reverse link A method performed in a wireless communication system having radio frequency burst transmission interference is presented. The method includes obtaining a first power level of noise and interference signals in an environment of at least one of a plurality of wireles... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160633 | Transmitted power control method and mobile terminal device A control section 100 measures a DPCH_RSCP and a DPCH-ISCP of every path, and calculates a DPCH_RSCP and a DPCH-ISCP for every wireless link. The control section 100 then calculates a DPCH_SIR for every wireless link, and calculates a difference in the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155690 | Transmission power target value variable control apparatus and method and mobile communication terminal A T-SIR generation unit (106a) generates, on the basis of an actual reception quality (205) in a mobile communication terminal, a target value T-SIR to be used to control transmission power of a base station from the mobile communication termina... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155689 | Reducing interference with a multiple format channel in a communication system Techniques for reducing interference with a multiple format channel in a communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, a minimum power level is determined for each format transmitted during a transmission interval. The minimum power level for formats that will ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155685 | Method and apparatus for determining reverse transmission power of mobile station in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system A mobile station apparatus for determining reverse transmission power in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing system is provided. A reception module receives from a base station a Reverse-Link Assignment Message including a Packet Format (PF) field and a Re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155688 | Method and apparatus for adjusting power control mode in wireless communication system A method and an apparatus for adjusting power control mode in a wireless communication system is provided. A mode change message is transmitted from a base station (BS) to a user equipment (UE) to request changing a power control mode from a base station (BS). The m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155687 | Dynamic adjustment of power offset for UE/BS based on error event of NACK to ACK A radio network system employing a method with dynamic adjustment of the power offset that provides a “per-UE”-NACK to ACK power offset calculation method instead of using a fixed offset for all users in the cell is disclosed. Also for each UE, the power offset ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155686 | Apparatus and method for selecting bandwidth for peer to peer communication in a broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for performing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a first calculator for calculating a maximum Transmit (Tx) power level for each band of a Mobile Station (MS) by... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150441 | Modifying a signal by controlling transmit diversity parameters A feedback signal is received from a feedback communication device. The feedback signal provides feedback information for a signal at a feedback rate. A modifying communication device modifies the signal by adjusting a nominal value of a transmit diversity parameter... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150442 | Method and apparatus for controlling power of subcarriers in a wireless communication system [Object] To implement wireless communication also with a communicating apparatus that is a limited band terminal capable of receiving only part of frequencies. [Overcoming Means] Provided are a frequency channel allocating section (10) that allocates f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150447 | Multi mode outer loop power control in a wireless network A method and arrangement is provided for adjusting the transmission power of radio signals sent over a radio link from a second node to be received by a first node reducing the transmission power consumption and/or optimizing the radio system capacity. The first nod... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150448 | Method and apparatus for calculating an initial transmission power in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment A method and apparatus for calculating an initial transmission power in a mobile telecommunications system is disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The user equipment device receives broadcast syst... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150446 | Thermal energy control in a mobile transceiver A method and apparatus for controlling thermal energy generation in a User Equipment (UE) operating in a radio telecommunication network. The thermal energy generation is directly proportional to a transmit power level in the UE, and a Node B allocates transmit powe... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150443 | Overload indicator for adjusting open loop power control parameters The exemplary embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus, and program to determine actions to be taken upon receiving overload indicators. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: determining if more than a first predetermined n... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150444 | Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and radio network controller A mobile communication method includes: (A) assigning, at a radio network controller, a channelization code and a transmission timing for the mobile station on the basis of a status of use of a channelization code and a transmission timing in a sector other than a s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150445 | Base station and wireless communication system Provided is a wireless base station comprising: a power control unit, a reference information acquisition unit and a reference information storing unit, wherein the wireless base station comprises a first control signal receiving unit for receiving a first uplink co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150440 | System and method for reducing power consumed by a wireless communication device A system and method are provided for facilitating reduced power consumption when communicating between a wireless communication device and a wireless communication controller. A power management controller comprising a power saving detection unit and a power level c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145252 | Method for inter-cell interference mitigation for a mobile communication system A method for reducing inter-cell interference (ICI) in a mobile communication system controls transmission signal power of an uplink signal from a terminal based on signal power measurement for a signal received from a base station of a neighboring cell. A terminal ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145251 | Power control in schedulable wireless communication terminal A wireless communication entity schedulable in a wireless communication network, including a controller (603) communicably coupled to a power amplifier (608), wherein the controller varies a maximum transmit power of the wireless communication entity b... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145254 | Dynamic adjustment of the pilot-channel, paging-channel, and sync-channel transmission-power levels based on forward-link and reverse-link RF conditions Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the pilot-channel, paging-channel, and sync-channel transmission-power levels based on forward-link and reverse-link RF conditions. In an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service on a carrier in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145253 | Method and apparatus for performing WTRU state transitions A method and apparatus for performing state transition of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which supports enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) in the CELL_FACH state is disclosed. Uplink data is transmitted via an E-DCH while operating in a CELL_FACH state. A r... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140106 | Peak factor reduction device and base station The function of comparing power of a signal obtained by multiplying an input signal by an EVM target value and power of a peak suppression signal, and automatically adjusting a peak factor threshold value Vt in such a manner that the values of both power become equa... | 03/20/2012 |
