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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150332 | Method and system for low-frequency communication The disclosure relates to a method of communication between a control device and an operator device, including the generation of a control signal and transmission of the control signal, where the control signal is generated in the form of a symmetric signal and is t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8116694 | System for facilitating beam training A system for configuring antenna systems for selecting directional communication signals corresponding to other apparatuses. Apparatuses having activities that require directional wireless communication may search for other apparatuses that can fulfill these require... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8073396 | Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, me... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055208 | Low energy data communication circuit for hazardous or nonhazardous environments The present invention relates to a data communication circuit and system for use in hazardous or nonhazardous environments. In the preferred embodiment, the system is a bi-directional, low energy, current loop data communication circuit primarily for high speed data... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7844229 | Mobile virtual and augmented reality system A method and apparatus for messaging within a mobile virtual and augmented reality system is provided herein. During operation a user can create “virtual graffiti” that will be left for a particular device to view as part of an augmented reality scene. The virtu... | 11/30/2010 |
| RE41802 | Missed call notification to cellular telephone using short text messaging A system for and method of providing Short Message Service (SMS) message notification to a cellular telephone customer regarding missed incoming calls that are missed while the cellular telephone is unavailable such as when the telephone is powered off. This is acco... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7664467 | Method for coordinated control of radio resources for multicasting in a distributed wireless system A method for coordinating control of radio resources for multicast/broadcast services in distributed radio resource management. The method includes communicating information between a plurality of units having radio resource management responsibilities. The communic... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7593694 | Data transmission method with a lower probability of erroneous rejection of data A method transmits data between a base station and a terminal in a communication system. According to said method, data is transmitted subdivided into time segments (Zs,R) from the base station (HS-DSCH) that is jointly used by several terminals via the base station... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7542726 | Methods and apparatuses for detecting the TX diversity mode for mobile radio receivers In a method and an apparatus (1) for transmission diversity mode detection in a mobile radio receiver using a decision function, the decision function which is used for detection of the transmission diversity mode is based on the coherent processing of two su... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7447481 | System and method for reducing rake finger processing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to reducing the number of fingers in a rake receiver used for rake finger processing in wireless networks. Determining Ebefore, captured energy of all fingers before increasing transmit power. Increasing trans... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444168 | Radio communication semiconductor integrated circuit, data processing semiconductor integrated circuit and portable device A portable device having a communication function composed of a plurality of LSIs operated in synchronization with a clock, such as a baseband LSI and a logic LSI such as an application processor, can synchronize the baseband LSI with the logic LSI without lowering ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437175 | Synchronization detection methods and apparatus Methods and apparatus for determining when uplink synchronization has been achieved when entering or adding a link in soft handover to a new node in a communication system. Transmit power control (TPC) commands from the new link are not included in a TPC command com... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428425 | Method and apparatus for providing biasing criteria for binary decisions for use in wireless communications to enhance protection A criterion for biasing a binary decision requiring an unequal protection which utilizes a measured signal to interference ratio (SIR). The SIR may be derived from a determination of channel estimation. The SIR is compared against a threshold, the threshold being se... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418241 | System and techniques for enhancing the reliability of feedback in a wireless communications system Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve transmitting a signal over a plurality of time periods, receiving a plurality of parameters each relating to the signal transmission during a different one of the tim... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418269 | Uplink interference reduction in wireless communications systems A wireless communications system has a plurality of uplink and downlink channels available for use. Channels are distributed among different operators who may plan their networks in a non-ideal manner. A terminal uses an uplink channel and a downlink channel selecte... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418242 | Transmission device and gain control method An apparatus that can lower the possibility of failing reception modulation in communication where data is transmitted with and without directivity and prevent deterioration of transmission efficiency caused by retransmission. With this apparatus, a gain control sig... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414989 | ACK/NACK determination reliability for a communication device A method for ACK/NACK determination reliability for a communication device includes a first step of defining a supplementary indicator of message acceptability. A next step includes sending data from a communication device to a BTS on an uplink channel. A next step ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409203 | Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications The invention of present speaks to a method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network, which meets and/or exceeds muc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7380028 | Robust delivery of video data The systems and methods described herein relate to the robust delivery of data. A transmitter (e.g. a server or RF broadcaster) passes parameters to a receiver and/or client enabling operation of a generalized buffer model within the receiver that regulates the prop... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369867 | Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications The invention of present speaks to a method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network, which meets and/or exceeds muc... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366913 | Knowledge-type authorization device and methods A wireless electronic authentication device with an authenticating smart chip, a local radio communication circuit, an input circuit that receives user input, and a power supply, all housed in a portable housing. Preferably, the authentication device is a mobile tel... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362625 | Interface configuration by a memory tag A memory tag is powered by and addressable via a radio frequency wireless link to read data from a memory. The memory tag is addressable by a reader. The memory holds data and interface configuration information relating to the operation of an interface device. This... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359365 | Hybrid CDM/TDM signaling for packet acknowledgment method and apparatus A common signaling channel (CSC) conveys signaling information units (SIUs) from a base station (BS) to each of a multiplicity (e.g., 1200) of different mobile stations (MSs). Implicit correspondence between particular CSC and data frames is facilitated by basing CS... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359696 | Communication apparatus, portable terminal and communication control program A communication apparatus, including: an identification information request receiver configured to conduct wireless communication a plurality of times without interruption with a portable device; a response transmitter configured to send a response signal including ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352993 | Data reproducing apparatus and data reproducing system A data reproducing system of the invention includes a data transmitter for transmitting a data signal containing audio data by air and a data receiver for receiving the data signal by air from the data transmitter. The data receiver includes a data receiving section... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349425 | Method and apparatus for overhead messaging in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for providing a broadcast system parameter message in a wireless communication system supporting a broadcast service. In one embodiment, the message identifies a service option number corresponding to a set of broadcast parameters. In an alterna... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346364 | Power and data rate control in a multi-rate wireless system Transmit parameters are adjusted for a wireless device based on link margin. In at least one embodiment, link margin is calculated as a difference between a received power level and receiver sensitivity. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346313 | Calibration of I-Q balance in transceivers Transceivers using direct conversion between baseband and RF have become popular for low-cost designs. Bandwidth-efficient modulations employ information on both phases of the carrier, and for high-order signaling alphabets, it becomes problematic to realize Direct-... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7334735 | Card for interaction with a computer A smart card comprising: a memory for storing information; at least one transmitting or receiving antenna; and a low frequency circuit, for handling information associated with said antenna and said memory, which information is modulated at a modulation frequency of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330701 | Low complexity beamformers for multiple transmit and receive antennas Beamforming systems having a few bits of channel state information fed back to the transmitter benefit from low complexity decoding structures and performances gains compared with systems that do not have channel state feedback. Both unit rank and higher rank system... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330504 | Method and apparatus for low power-rise power control using sliding-window-weighted QoS measurements A system and method for adjusting the power control target for a spread-spectrum communication system 110 is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises correcting a power control target 128 based upon the difference between a filtered series of actual... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324828 | Transmission power control method and device Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission electric power capable of minimizing a decrease in the amount of maximum transmission electric power without degrading an adjacent channel leakage power ratio when code-multiplexing additional contr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7305215 | Radio link check The present invention is directed towards a method, a link check device, and a portable communication device for communication link check. The link check device (102) comprises a receiver unit (104) for receiving and monitoring information including a ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295118 | Low cost RFID system A low cost close range RFID Reader/Writer which is operatively connected to a control device which contains a transmitter and is configured to function as a homodyne receiver. The device can be constructed from low cost parts and can function in close ranges to othe... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295858 | Mobile station capable of outputting ring tones coming from a base station without storing them locally on the mobile station A device for ring tone output. The device comprises a phone speaker, a ringing speaker, a receiver, a switching device and a micro-controller. The receiver acquires audio data via a traffic channel. The audio data comprises a ring tone. The switching device receives... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292826 | System and method for reducing rake finger processing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to reducing the number of fingers in a rake receiver used for rake finger processing in wireless networks. Determining Ebefore, captured energy of all fingers before increasing transmit power. Increasing trans... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287709 | Configurable multi-level thermostat backlighting A thermostat includes a display and an illumination device that is configurable to illuminate the display in a partial illumination mode and a full illumination mode. In the partial illumination mode the illumination device generates a light intensity sufficient to ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280821 | Outgoing call handling system and method A cellular system for handling outgoing calls from a mobile station (1) including a network element (8) being capable of recognizing voiced commands and names, and has in memory a database of telephone numbers corresponding to an array of names. The mo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277390 | TCP processing apparatus of base transceiver subsystem in wired/wireless integrated network and method thereof A protocol processing apparatus and method in a mobile communication system operates a transmitting end according to whether transmission errors occur in a wireless section in consideration of conditions of the wireless section. A TCP processing apparatus and method... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277477 | Zero overhead back channel for adaptive transmit filter updates in SerDes transceivers A method and system that communicates adaptive transmit-side filter updates between a receiver and transmitter inserts additional versions of control codes into a back channel for encoding updates. Since the control codes are required in the back channel, no additio... | 10/02/2007 |
