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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184560 | Systems and methods for managing PDP contexts in a wireless data communications network Systems and method are for managing packet data protocol (PDP) contexts in a wireless data communications network. A plurality of real-time applications are prioritized within a single, shared PDP context or allocated a second PDP context based upon priority levels ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175012 | Decoding/encoding method for booting from a NAND flash and system thereof A decoding method for booting from a NAND Flash including a booting page storing a plurality of copies of NAND booting information and a plurality of corresponding parities, each parity generated by an predetermined error correction code (ECC) bit number. The decodi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175014 | Method and apparatus for using a relay to provide physical and hybrid automatic repeat request functionalities Methods and apparatus are described for performing automatic repeat request (ARQ) and hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) assisted ARQ procedures in a relay-based wireless communication system. Triggers for radio link control (RLC)/ARQ retransmissions and RLC/ARQ status reporting are... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175013 | Radio frequency switch Disclosed is a radio frequency (RF) switch including: a circulator having first to third nodes, which are connected to first to third ports, respectively; and a slot line pattern unit installed in a connection line between the third node of the circulator and the th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165044 | Maintaining multiple, simultaneous wireless network connections using a single radio A method and apparatus for managing simultaneous virtual connections with multiple wireless networks. A plurality of ports in a hardware driver may be each associated with a corresponding wireless network and maintain a unique MAC state relative to other ports. Each... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165045 | Mobile wireless communications device including a power divider connecting an LNA to multiple receive signal chains A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, a wireless radio frequency (RF) receiver, a wireless RF transmitter, and a duplexer connecting the wireless RF receiver and the wireless RF transmitter to the antenna. More particularly, the wireless RF... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159977 | Point-controlled contention arbitration in multiple access wireless LANs A power management method that divorces multicast frames for power save stations from DTIM beacons. An access point associates power save stations with a multicast group. Each station has an associated power save interval, the station being in a power save state dur... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159978 | Method and apparatus of transmitting feedback message in wireless communication system A method and apparatus of transmitting a feedback message in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station receives information on a first period and a second period from a base station and transmits a first feedback message in every first period or ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155034 | Prioritized and piggy-backed ACK/NACK reports A method (200) for a cellular system (100), with an RBS (120) which controls a cell (110) with User Equipments UE (130, 140). The RBS and the UEs exchange data which may comprise sequence numbers, and exchange reports on whether or... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155033 | Opportunistic spectrum sensing optimization for a communication system A combination of subscriber clustering and link interleaving provides a cognitive radio system (CR) 100 with opportunities to sense an incumbent system's spectrum on secondary basis. The CR system (100) uses clustering to identify out-of-band channels.... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149742 | System and method for receiving and transmitting signals A diplexer for steering transmit and receive signals between an antenna and a transmitter and receiver of a radio frequency communication system. The diplexer includes a first quadrature hybrid device configured for bidirectional communication with the antenna and c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130681 | Narrow band transceiver The data transmitted from a first station is transmitted at a first data rate. The data transmitted from a second station is transmitted at a second data rate. The second data rate is lower than the first data rate. In view of both the difference in data rates and t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121059 | Wireless non-cellular network A communication method includes monitoring a time division multiple access (TDMA) frame structure of a cellular system by a plurality of non-cellular nodes of a non-cellular network by using a common channel of the cellular system, and using the time division multip... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121060 | Protocol extensions in a display port compatible interface A computer can control a target device using a packet format described herein. In one example, an extension packet controls the target device in at least one of power consumption, image rendering, and register updating. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116238 | Plural network protocol wireless transmit/receive unit A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) communicates in a system which includes plural network protocols. The WTRU includes a circuit configured to make an initial communication request. A communication circuit establishes a communication link in response to the ini... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111638 | Radio measurement procedure in wireless communication system There is provided a radio measurement procedure for station statistics measurements in wireless communication network. In the method, a requesting station transmits to a requested station a triggered station statistics measurements request message including a group ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111639 | Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmitting method A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the increase of the guard time in a random access region is reduced to secure the data transmitting region of an upstream line. In this apparatus, when a received signal power estimated by a rece... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111640 | Antenna feed network for full duplex communication The present invention provides a wireless device for effecting two way wireless transmission, an antenna feed network, and a patch antenna. The wireless device includes an antenna assembly having two inputs accepting two feed signals shifted a feed signal phase diff... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107404 | Wireless communication control apparatus and method By using multiple channels at the same time to realize broadbanding of the frequency channels and suppressing increase in the waiting time before starting transmission of wireless signals, improvement of the practical throughput can be realized. A wireless communica... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8081584 | Control system apparatus and systems using value-based transfers A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing devic... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077638 | Methods and apparatus for providing quality of service in a peer to peer network Methods and apparatus related to scheduling traffic slots in a wireless communications system, e.g., an ad hoc peer to peer communications network are described. An implemented timing structure includes multiple traffic transmission slots and multiple request blocks... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077637 | Mobile communication apparatus A mobile communication apparatus on the receiving side receives and stores data being transmitted over the period of a plurality of processing time units, from the mobile communication apparatus on the transmitting side. At the time of retransmission of the data con... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077639 | High isolation signal routing assembly for full duplex communication A signal routing assembly accepts a first transmission signal at an input and outputs a substantial portion of the signal at a common port of the signal routing assembly. A second transmission signal is received at the common port and is routed through the signal ro... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072910 | Retransmitting lost packet with subsequent received packet In one embodiment, a method comprises transmitting onto a wireless connection, by a device, a first wireless data packet destined for a second device; in response to a determined absence by the device of a required acknowledgment of the first wireless data packet fr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064371 | Radio communication apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and radio communication system In a radio communication system that simultaneously uses plural radio channels, a radio communication apparatus can quickly secure plural radio channels simultaneously used for radio communication while preventing collision with a radio signal transmitted by another... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064370 | Transmitting device, wireless communication system and transmitting method At a time T131, a wireless communication apparatus 11A determines to transmit a data packet, and then performs interference signal detection for a period TA. At a time T132, which precedes a time T133 at which the period TA has elapsed si... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059567 | Distributing mobile stations across carriers of plural frequency bands Distribution of mobile stations across carriers of multiple frequency bands is achieved by using either a static distribution mechanism or a dynamic distribution mechanism. With the static distribution mechanism, a combination of a redirection message and a channel ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8031642 | Subcarrier cluster-based power control in wireless communications Devices, systems and techniques to monitor signal fading based on a cluster of subcarriers at a receiver and feedback monitored signal fading to a transmitter in wireless communication systems such as OFDM and OFDMA systems. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031643 | Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving ACK/NACK in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for multiplexing and transmitting/receiving an ACK/NACK resulting from use of a HARQ scheme in an OFDMA system. Frequency and code multiplexing methods are combined with regard to the ACK/NACK to reduce signaling overhead. Freq... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027278 | Wireless communication base station apparatus, wireless communication mobile station apparatus, and method for mapping response signal in ARQ In ARQ where a plurality of mobile stations share and use a single channel for response signals (ACK/NACK signals), a wireless communication base station apparatus can prevent failure of the ARQ control. In this apparatus, a CRC part (114) performs an error d... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014324 | Tone signaling In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first communication interface, a second communication interface and tone control logic coupled to the first interface and the second interface. The tone control logic is operable to continuously ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014323 | Systems and methods for facilitating communication between communication devices Systems and methods for facilitating communication between communication devices are provided. An exemplary method includes: sending an indication signal by a second communication device to a first communication device, the indication signal corresponding to a reque... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005028 | Data communication system, data transmitting device, data transmitting method, data receiving device, and data receiving method A probe transmitting section (216) in a packet receiving terminal (210) sends a probe packet to a second radio channel (320) at fixed intervals. A probe analyzing section (117) in a packet sending terminal (110) detects a burst los... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005026 | Multiple radio platform transmission power control In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes a first radio to communicate with a first wireless network and a second radio to communicate with a second wireless network. A controller is used to estimate signal to noise and interfere... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005027 | Method and apparatus for multicasting with feedback information A method for multicasting a packet begins by providing a buffer for each of two user equipments (UEs) in communication with a base station. A determination is made whether there is a previously unsent packet at the base station. A second determination is made whethe... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7969920 | Communication roaming systems and methods Embodiments of communication roaming systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises sending a frame to a station based on an identifier of the station to prompt an immediate response frame, and determining whether the station is su... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969921 | Method and system for data packet communication in wireless communication systems The present invention provides a method and system for data packet communication in wireless communication systems. One embodiment involves determining if one or more data blocks pending transmission in a current transmission opportunity period over the channel will... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957328 | Method and system for communicating to radio frequency integrated circuit A method and system for managing change-over in radio functionality at a radio front-end in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) system is provided. The method comprises storing one or more control commands. The one or more control commands may correspond to the change-o... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957327 | Efficient support for TDD beamforming via constrained hopping and on-demand pilot Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing time-division duplexed beam-forming support in traditionally non-time-division duplexed wireless systems, such as an OFDMA system, a WCDMA system, etc. According to an aspect, a base station can analy... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953029 | Mobile communication system with transmission control of data transmission rate request value A mobile communication system which is capable of, when carrying out mobile communication using a shared channel, increasing in efficiency of transmission timing of the data transmission rate request value to prevent wasteful power consumption and hence reduce power... | 05/31/2011 |
