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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190091 | Method for setting data transmission parameters and communication device A method for setting data transmission parameters of a first communication connection comprising determining information about data transmission parameters of at least one established second communication connection and setting the data transmission parameters of th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190092 | Selecting modulation and coding scheme in the presence of interference A wireless device comprises an interference sensing module, a modulation and coding schemes (MCS) selection module, and a transmit module. The interference sensing module selectively receives an interference signal over a channel. The interference signal is modulate... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190093 | Spectrum adaptive networking The present invention increases the available spectrum in a wireless network by sharing existing allocated (and in-use) portions of the RF spectrum in a manner that will minimize the probability of interfering with existing legacy users. The invention provides inter... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190094 | Method for reducing inter-cell interference A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding info... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185055 | Apparatus for determining interference using cyclic prefix and method thereof An interference determination apparatus, including a signal receiver to receive a first signal of a primary network and a second signal of a secondary network; a correlator to compute a correlation value of a first cyclic prefix included in the first signal and a co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180298 | Method and apparatus to minimize interference among co-located multiple wireless devices Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmit requests among a plurality of co-located transmitting devices each associated with a wireless transmitting protocol. The method comprises the steps of determining the cost associated with each of the transmit... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170487 | Baseband transmitter self-jamming and intermodulation cancellation device Some embodiments provide a method, system, and apparatus for interference cancellation at the baseband of a receiver. A wireless communication device, having a transmitter and receiver, is provided with an adaptive circuit that cancels interference caused by transmi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170488 | Mitigation of internetwork interference When a device in one wireless network receives interfering transmissions from an overlapping neighboring network, the neighboring network may be notified of the interference so that non-interfering schedules can be worked out. In one embodiment, the device receiving... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165528 | Interference mitigation in wireless networks An access terminal is enabled to communicate with a private access point while interference caused by the access terminal is mitigated. A maximum allowable transmit rate of the access terminal for communication with the private access point is determined. The access... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160499 | Reducing exposure of radio devices to interference through adaptive selection of repetitive symbols Methods and apparatus relating to reducing exposure of radio devices to interference through adaptive selection of repetitive symbols are described. In an embodiment, a symbol may be selected for transmission to a display based on the operating frequency of a wirele... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155594 | Asymmetrical multicarrier interference avoidance A system and methods for asymmetrical multicarrier interference avoidance in a communication from a network to a subscriber device. The asymmetrical multicarrier interference avoidance technique comprises measuring signal-to-noise ratio interference values and sorti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150325 | Blanking system An exemplary signal interference control system is disclosed that utilizes a computer system, such as programmable logic circuits or computer controlled logic gates, to generate blanking or control signals for various types of radio frequency receiver and transmitte... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150326 | Signal processing for multi-sectored wireless communications system and method thereof Disclosed is a signal processing system in a base station that receives and processes single carrier or multiple carrier signals from transmitting units in a sectored coverage area with at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna, the signal power... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145133 | Method and apparatus of sharing spectrum with legacy communication system A method of sharing spectrum with a legacy communication system includes acquiring spectrum correlation of the legacy communication system, and generating a transmit waveform based on the spectrum correlation. Unlike conventional cognitive radios that utilize spectr... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145134 | Wireless microphone beacon Disclosed is a method and system for a radio beacon to protect wireless microphones from interference. One embodiment involves providing each wireless microphone system with a signal detector that detects interfering signals and a ‘beacon’ transmitter that sends... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140018 | Communication systems A wireless communication system is comprised of multiple radio access networks—RANs—which at least partly share the same frequency spectrum. Each RAN is provided with a gateway—GW—(GW1, GW2, GW3) for managing the network. Spectrum sharin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140019 | Method for reducing inter-cell interference A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding info... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135350 | System for reducing signal interference A system for suppressing interference imposed on a victim communication signal by an aggressor communication signal including a circuit that comprises an input port, an output port, and a signal processing circuit connected between the input port and the output port... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135348 | Rejection of transmit signal leakage in wireless communication device This disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of transmit signal leakage in a full-duplex, wireless communication system. The disclosure describes techniques for reducing adverse effects of second order distortion and cross-modulation distortion ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135349 | Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multi-antenna system An apparatus and method for interference cancellation in a multi-antenna system are provided. A transmission apparatus includes a channel identifier, a scheduler, an interference canceller, and a transmitter. The channel identifier identifies channel information of ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131220 | Management unit for managing a plurality of multiservice communication devices A management unit manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126402 | Transmission line common-mode filter One embodiment of the invention sets forth a technique for using a resonator as a common-mode filter for attenuating unwanted common-mode frequencies in a differential signal. Filtering these unwanted frequencies may reduce electromagnetic interference from the diff... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126403 | Estimating and limiting inter-cell interference A cellular radio communication system includes a first serving cell and a second non-serving cell. A mobile radio is currently served by a first base station in the first cell. An uplink radio transmission from the mobile radio will cause or causes inter-cell interf... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121551 | GSM mobile terminal and noise suppression method for the same A TDMA mobile terminal and noise suppression method for the same are provided. The mobile terminal includes a storage unit for storing a gain control table. The gain control table contains gain control values used for controlling gains of at least one of an outgoing... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121549 | Method and system for allocating resource in a communication system A method for allocating resource in a communication system. The resource allocation method includes dividing a data transmission region into a first region and a second region; allocating resource of the first region when a first Mobile Station (MS) among MSs is an ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121550 | Satellite interference canceling A satellite interference canceling system cancels the interference between two or more signals received by a satellite receiver. The signals can be two signals experiencing cross polarization interference or signals that experience interference from other satellite ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116687 | Dynamic frequency selection in wireless devices A method in a communication network comprising a plurality of network controllers and a plurality of mobile nodes served by at least one of the plurality of network controllers is provided. The method includes the plurality of network controllers coordinating interf... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116688 | Wireless apparatus, wireless communication system, control method, and control program A wireless apparatus which can realize a DFS function that avoidance of interference with radar is considered in an Ad-Hoc mode under a multihop circumstance is provided. A Beacon frame is transmitted at a shorter interval than a previously set interval when radar i... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116689 | Determination of antenna noise temperature for handheld wireless devices Antenna noise temperature is determined for a handheld wireless communication device which typically includes a radio, e.g. having a wireless transceiver and associated circuitry connected thereto, and an antenna connected to the radio. The method includes measuring... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112038 | Beamforming with imperfect channel state information Disclosed herein is a system and method for downlink beamforming that takes into account imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter when determining the steering vector used in the beamforming process. The steering vector is calculated to increase ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112039 | System and method for detecting radar signals in wireless communications access points A system and method for providing radar signal detection in a communications system. In an example method, a raw energy detect signal is received and analyzed to determine if the raw energy detect signal contains a valid radar pulse. A bit is stored in a bit sequenc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107882 | Intelligent downstream traffic delivery to multi-protocol stations A technique is disclosed for improving how stations that operate in accordance with different protocols coexist with an access point that operates in accordance with a single protocol. In the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a station provides timin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107884 | Base station, subordinated station and transmission method thereof A base station (BS), a subordinated station (SS) and the transmission methods thereof for use in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) network are provided. The BS stores resource allocation information about the MIMO network and an SS list, and generate a super frame a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107883 | Apparatus and method for interference avoidance in mixed device-to-device and cellular environment In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises collecting a set of neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at a device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part bas... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103217 | Apparatus and method for radio communication An apparatus and a method of performing radio communication are provided. The radio communication apparatus may determine a channel capacity of a radio channel based on a sensing duration to sense the radio channel and a false alarm probability, determine a sensing ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099051 | Pilot signal power control apparatus and operation method of pilot signal power control apparatus A pilot signal power control apparatus to determine a power level of a pilot signal of a primary network to indicate an availability of a wireless resource of thereof to a secondary user of a secondary network according to a cognitive radio technology, the pilot sig... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099053 | Communication apparatus and communication system Remote control data is securely transmitted to a device under control. A remote control device transmits an acknowledge request for A ch to the device under control (S21). When the device under control has assigned A ch as the reception channel, acknowledge A... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099054 | Mega communication and media apparatus configured for energy harvesting and for boosting signal reception to prevent brain cancerous deseases Disclosed embodiments comprise an energy harvesting computer device in association with a communication device comprising interactive user interface operatively configured with CMOS multiple antennas on chip for boosting signal receptions and for providing faster da... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099052 | Method and apparatus for effective multi-cell interference control service There are provided a method and apparatus for an effective multi-cell interference control service, to make it possible for users located at a cell boundary to dynamically select a suitable interference control technique by monitoring interference information collec... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095073 | Method and apparatus for improved mobile station and hearing aid compatibility A mobile station includes an adjustable member for increasing a separation distance between an audio signal output device and an electronic circuit to reduce EMI proximate the audio signal output device caused by the electronic circuit. In one embodiment, the adjust... | 01/10/2012 |
