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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190096 | Method and system to select devices of a wireless network, particularly a network of wireless lighting devices The invention relates to the selection of devices of a wireless network, particularly wireless home control networks, for example lighting control networks in buildings. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved method and System to select devices of a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185056 | Load testing system, load testing apparatus, load testing method, computer product, and communication device In a load testing system, a transmission device measures a bandwidth of user data transmitted from a user terminal in real time, calculates a calculation bandwidth by subtracting the bandwidth of the user data from an evaluation bandwidth preset to evaluate the perf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185057 | Uplink channel quality feedback reduction in a mobile communication system Operating a user equipment in a mobile communication system includes generating a measure of reliability of a predicted channel estimate and of impairment stability, wherein the predicted channel estimate is a predicted estimate of a channel between the user equipme... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180300 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antenna branches through which radio signals are transmitted and received; a calibration factor acquiring unit that acquires a calibration factor for compensating an unbalance of phase and amplitude between ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180299 | Optimized AM RLC re-set mechanism A reset method for an AM RLC entity, the method comprising: receiving a reset PDU that includes a RSN; and if the received reset PDU is not the first received reset PDU after re-establishment of the RLC entity and if the RSN is the same as a RSN included in a last r... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175534 | RF-aware packet filtering in radio access networks Methods and systems are provided for filtering packets in a wireless communication system in the to-mobile subscriber direction. This filtering is at least in part based on RF circuit state information. For example, a packet filter is used that either permits or den... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175536 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and communication control method A channel estimation and prediction unit 18 estimates a channel and predicts a plurality of channels for a next transmission slot. An SVD unit 19 performs singular value decomposition on a plurality of channel prediction values. An eigenvalue calculati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175535 | Active cancellation of transmitter leakage in a wireless transceiver Active transmitter leakage cancellation techniques are disclosed, for reducing transmitter leakage in a frequency-duplexing radio transceiver. Reducing transmitter leakage to the receiver path of a duplex transceiver eases the linearity requirements for low-noise am... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170489 | System and methods for determining radiated radio frequency (RF) receiver sensitivity A test method is for determining RF sensitivity of an RF receiver for a plurality of channels extending over a frequency band(s) using an RF source coupled to the RF receiver by an RF communications link. The plurality of channels may include channels having a predi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170491 | System and method for real-time performance and load statistics of a communications system A system and method for producing real-time results of performance data for wireless communications servers are disclosed. A plurality of bins, each bin corresponding to a range, are maintained. When a measurable event is detected, the event is placed into the corre... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170490 | Method and apparatus for testing multiple data signal transceivers substantially simultaneously with common transceiver tester A method and apparatus for testing multiple data signal transceivers substantially simultaneously with a common transceiver tester by analyzing previously captured data signal transmissions from some of the data signal transceivers while continuing to capture furthe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165529 | Mobile station, radio base station, mobile communication system, and method of transmitting and receiving broadcast information A radio base station for establishing a signaling control channel and a shared data channel for a mobile station and communicating with the mobile station includes a broadcast information generating unit configured to generate broadcast information including one or ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160500 | Method and apparatus to improve closed loop transmit diversity modes performance via interference suppression in a WCDMA network equipped with a RAKE receiver A method for processing signals in a wireless communication system includes determining at a receiver, a maximum one of a plurality of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) values for a received wireless signal. The plurality of SINR values may be calculate... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155596 | Radio communication device and method for processing measurement control information in a communication device In various embodiments, a communication device and a method for processing measurement control information in a communication device are provided. In an embodiment, system information and a system information identifier are stored by the communication device in a fi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150328 | Method and apparatus for distributed sensing management and control within a cognitive radio network A technique for spectrum sensing management and control for a secondary communication system seeking to utilize another communication system's spectrum is provided (600). Sensor control data is sent from a base station to subscriber units (604). Sensin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150329 | Wireless communication device and method for switching modulation system thereof A further secure channel is ensured after switching of a modulation system at the time of deterioration channel quality. A wireless communication device includes a transmitter that converts data into a modulation wave in a set modulation system and transmits the mod... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150327 | Channel sounding techniques for a wireless communication system A technique for channel sounding in a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations with respect to a serving base station. Respective time periods for sounding a channel between the multiple subscriber stat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145136 | Wireless diagnostics A method of analyzing a wireless network, including the steps of coupling a diagnostic station to a wireless network, injecting encapsulated wireless frames into that wireless network, forwarding encapsulated wireless frames within that wireless network, and in resp... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145135 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing automatically adjusted time periods used for event evaluation A method includes determining a first time period during which evaluation should be performed of whether a received radio frequency signal meets at least one criterion, the first time period based at least partially on a second time period of discontinuous reception... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140021 | Communication apparatus and communication method A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits reception quality information to a base station apparatus, the reception quality information indicating quality of a signal received from the base station apparatus, characterized in that th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140020 | Radio frequency calibration apparatus and method for multi-antenna mobile communication system There is provided to an RF calibration apparatus and method for a multi-antenna mobile communication system, which calibrates a phase error and gain error of an RF path by calculating the minimum value of a sum of an initialized reference signal and a comparison sig... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140022 | Radio communication device and radio communication method A radio communication device capable of lightening the influence of a frequency selective fading in the wide-band transmission of a single carrier thereby to prevent deterioration of error rate characteristics. In this device, an FFT unit (13) subjects a modu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135352 | Telecommunication enclosure monitoring system A remote monitoring system for telecommunication enclosures includes a low profile or flush mounted sealed transceiver or antenna unit, an electronic module inside of the enclosure electrically connected to the transceiver and a communication device to send signals ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135353 | System and method for testing emergency dispatch systems A system and method for testing and monitoring all critical operational aspects of a conventional, non-trunked, radio communications base radio or repeater system and alerting the dispatcher when a communication failure or error occurs. The system includes a monitor... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135354 | Method and system for chopped antenna impedance measurements with an RFID radio Described herein are methods, devices and systems for characterizing an attached antenna to an electronic device, such as a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) reader. One exemplary embodiment is related to a method comprising outputting a low amplitude modu... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126404 | Method and device for evaluating the energy level of a radio signal To evaluate an energy level of a signal received through a radio interface between radiocommunication stations, successive measurement samples depending on the energy of the signal are obtained, and an average of said samples is calculated, to evaluate the energy le... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121552 | Method and apparatus for providing channel quality feedback in a wireless communication system A wireless communication system that provides periodic channel quality feedback adjusts a channel condition reporting period for a subscriber station based on the multiple channel condition information reports, such as CQI messages, received from the subscriber stat... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116691 | Systems and methods for improving reference signals for spatially multiplexed cellular systems A method for using a numerical method to design reference signals for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems is described. An input multiple input multiple output signal is determined. A nearest tight frame to one or more given structured vectors is obtained.... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116692 | Received signal to noise indicator A method and device may be used to produce a received interference value in wireless communications. A wireless transmit/receive unit comprising a radio frequency signal measurement device may be configured to produce a value indicating a radio frequency signal, noi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112041 | Systems and methods for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation A method for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation is described. Each element of a set of sequences is projected to a nearest constellation point. The set of sequences is converted into a time domain repre... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112040 | Method for measuring variable bandwidth wireless channel and transmitter and receiver therefor Provided are a method for measuring a variable bandwidth wireless channel, and a transmitter and a receiver therefore. The transmitter, includes: a pre-processing unit for performing variable over-sampling and band-limited filtering on an original sequence for measu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107887 | Narrowband system and method for defining narrowband wideband channels in unused wideband channels A narrowband communication system (100) includes a base station (102) and a plurality of subscriber units (104). The base station assigns one or more wideband channels to be measured to each subscriber unit (606). The subscriber units tun... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107886 | Method and apparatus for user quality management for wireless networks The present invention provides for monitoring quality of service on a receiver unit in a wireless communication system by configuring one or more monitors on the receiver unit according to a configuration file and using the monitors to collect event data relating to... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107885 | Method and apparatus for providing a distributed architecture digital wireless communication system A communication system supports H-ARQ, AMC, active set handoff, and scheduling functions in a distributed fashion by allowing a mobile station (MS) to signal control information corresponding to an enhanced reverse link transmission to Active Set base transceiver st... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103218 | Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system are described. In some embodiments, a base station may comprise a network interface device to receive and process a long-term signal to interference... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099056 | Digital hybrid amplifier calibration and compensation method Methods and hybrid matrix amplifiers are provided. In a method of calibrating a hybrid matrix amplifier of a wireless transceiver, a plurality of signal paths having a digital and an analog portion are toggled such that the analog portion of each of the plurality of... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099055 | Method and device for managing signal measurements in a wireless network A wireless network comprises at least one station (102) adapted to perform measurements of at least one given type in the network, and a Centralised Measurement Manager (CMM) unit (101) for handling measurements of said type. CMM unit sends a measureme... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095075 | System and method of detecting a sleeping cell and remedying detected conditions in a telecommunication network A node in a telecommunications network having a number of cells is informed of a sleeping cell. Within the telecommunications network, information of a potential sleeping cell detected by a user equipment (UE) operating in the telecommunications network is sent to t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090322 | Emergency call forking and notification A system receives subscriber configuration information, for an emergency forking/notification service, that includes criteria for initiating the forking/notification service and contact information for a recipient of the forking/notification service. The system rece... | 01/03/2012 |
| RE43046 | Maintenance system for a telecommunication installation The invention provides a portable and autonomous assistance device to derive information on faults in a private telecommunication installation comprising particularly equipment units to assist the client owning the installation in maintaining the latter. A maintenan... | 12/27/2011 |
