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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189501 | Multiple MAC domains A satellite system for broadband communication with a plurality of remote locations is described. The system includes a satellite and a plurality of service spot beams from the satellite. A plurality of forward channels are transported on carriers in the service spo... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184563 | Selecting a position fix to determine the location of a wireless communication device Different types of position fixes may be used to determine the location of a mobile station in a wireless communication system. The position fixes include terrestrial, or network, based techniques, and non-network based techniques, such as satellite, based technique... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179826 | System and apparatus for adapting operations of a communication device A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a base unit operable in part as a femtocell having a controller to detect a cellular phone, wirelessly establish communications with the cellular phone, establish communications... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8149745 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and program A wireless communication system is provided that includes a first wireless communication device, a second wireless communication device, and a base station that relays wireless communication between the first and second wireless communication devices. The first wire... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8107406 | Offline mobile RFID event persistency and synchronization In various embodiments, RFID events are pre-processes with filtering logic by a mobile interrogator/reader before being inserted into tables of a local relational database on the mobile device when the mobile device cannot otherwise communicate collected events to a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098605 | System and method for dynamic distributed communication Growth of a distributed communication system is facilitated through dynamic addition of routing elements. A new routing element may be added to a network of routing elements by first establishing a connection between the new routing element and an existing routing e... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8009599 | Wireless communication device and wireless communication method A wireless communication device that transmits packets, on the basis of a packet transmission scheme for allocating wireless bands with virtual carrier sensing, has: monitoring module for monitoring packets communicated between other wireless communication devices a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000277 | Mobile communication network system and mobile communication method The mobile communication network system of the present invention is made up from a mobile communication network (MNW), a plurality of external networks (EX1-EX3), a plurality of mobile terminals (x, y, z), a plurality of gateways (EGW1-EGW3 | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986650 | Beam forming and/or MIMO RF front-end An RF front-end includes a transmit adjust module, a PA module, an antenna coupling circuit, a LNA module, and a receive adjust module. The transmit adjust module adjusts coordinates of up-converted analog signals when in a first transmit mode and adjusts coordinate... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974226 | Separating control and data in wireless networks Wireless communication techniques are described in which control and data are separated. In an implementation, a method is described which includes sending data packets on a first wireless channel and sending control data relating to the data packets on a second wir... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7920497 | System and method for multicast/broadcast reliability enhancement over wireless LANs A system comprises a communication engine for transmitting at least one groupcast packet to wireless stations on a wireless network; an ACK leader selection engine for identifying at least one of the wireless stations as a current ACK leader responsible for generati... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911988 | Selecting a navigation solution used in determining the position of a device in a wireless communication system Different types of position solutions may be used to determine the position of a mobile station (104) in a wireless communication system (101). The position solutions include terrestrial, or network (102, 103), based techniques and non-network, ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911989 | Information processing system, information processing unit, control method, program and a recording medium An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing units wirelessly communicating with each other, each of which includes a distribution data receiving section for receiving distribution data to be distributed to each of the information ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7885216 | Method and device for setting up the transfer of a multimedia content in a cell of a wireless cellular telecommunication network The invention concerns a method and a device for setting up the transfer of a multimedia content in a cell of a wireless cellular telecommunication network constituted of plural cells, the cells being neighbour of at least one other cell, each cell being managed by ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7848269 | Mobile communication system, core network apparatus, and mobile communication terminal A mobile communication system for relaying user data includes a plurality of base station apparatus and a core network apparatus. Each of the base station apparatus forms a cell for connecting to a terminal through a wireless link. The core network apparatus can be ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7808942 | Policy based mobile-IP address selection and assignment A method for imposing a communication policy for a mobile node. During Mobile-IP (MIP) registration for the mobile node, when a MIP home agent sends an access request to an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server, the AAA server will select a pool... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787402 | System and method of authenticating mobile devices Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through s... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7773547 | Method and apparatus for requesting point-to-point protocol (PPP) instances from a packet data services network A method and apparatus for requesting PPP instances from a packet data services network includes a mobile station configured to send an origination message to a packet data service node (PDSN) at which it has arrived upon leaving the vicinity of another PDSN. The me... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768952 | System and method of wirelessly communicating with mobile devices Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through s... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764635 | Cross-layer self-healing in a wireless ad-hoc network Disclosed is a method and apparatus for improved self-healing in a mobile ad-hoc wireless network in which network communication functions are divided into a plurality of functional layers. The system utilizes cross-layer self-healing techniques. Network data from a... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7746813 | Filtering using communication line identification In a method for terminating a plurality of ATM lines for a base station modulator/demodulator in a mobile communication system for data communication between upper stations and a base station by a transmission method wherein ATM cells are mapped utilizing an existin... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7710907 | Local area network having multiple channel wireless access A communication network having at least one access point supports wireless communication among a plurality of wireless roaming devices via a first and a second wireless channel. The access point comprises a first and a second transceiver. The first and second transc... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7675878 | Enhanced passive scanning This application describes an enhanced passive scanning method for a wireless local area network, including the steps of transmitting at least one of a beacon signal or a gratuitous probe response in a WLAN channel by an access point. The gratuitous probe response i... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643438 | Method of determining random access channel preamble detection performance in a communication system In a method for determining link level performance of random access channel (RACH) preamble detection in a wireless communication system, link level performance results may be obtained without having to perform extensive simulation. Link-level performance results of... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639637 | Wireless apparatus and method of selecting wireless access point PER when a wireless apparatus is connected with a predetermined wireless access point is estimated on the basis of three parameters of the received signal strength, the interference signal strength, and the interference adjacency, which have been transmitted from th... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7619997 | Beamforming and/or MIMO RF front-end and applications thereof An RF front-end includes a transmit adjust module, a PA module, an antenna coupling circuit, a LNA module, and a receive adjust module. The transmit adjust module adjusts coordinates of up-converted analog signals when in a first transmit mode and adjusts coordinate... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613138 | Separating control and data in wireless networks Wireless communication techniques are described in which control and data are separated. In an implementation, a method is described which includes sending data packets on one or more wireless channels and sending control data relating to the data packets on at leas... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7567526 | System and method for asynchronous wireless collision detection with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for asynchronous busy-tone multiple access with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks. In one example, the method includes emitting a tone after determining that a transmission is incoming from a... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561540 | System and method for dynamic distributed communication Growth of a distributed communication system is facilitated through dynamic addition of routing elements. A new routing element may be added to a network of routing elements by first establishing a connection between the new routing element and an existing routing e... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7551574 | Method and apparatus for controlling wireless network access privileges based on wireless client location An access point through which a wireless device attaches to a wireless network determines the access privileges that will be accorded to the device based on a criteria set, such as the ID and physical location of the device requesting network access, the access poin... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545762 | Method and system for network presence notification In a packet-switched network, a subscribing application subscribes to a network presence server to receive selected network presence information. The network presence server obtains the selected network presence information, at least in part, from status messages th... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539155 | Centralized feature platform in a packetized network A packetized telecommunication network directs a call that is received at a gateway of the network to connect to a feature platform via the network, which performs a service related to the call, such as an authentication service. After the service is performed, the ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7480264 | Centralized wireless LAN load balancing A centralized wireless LAN load balancing mechanism is described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a request for entering a wireless network from a wireless station and forwarded from multiple access points (APs) of the wireless network, a network access dev... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7433345 | Wireless LAN system and a method using the same A wireless LAN system and a method of using the same. The wireless LAN system includes at least one Interface Service Commercial module (ISCM) for collecting and transferring channel information related to channels in use for wireless networks located in a neighbori... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430194 | Method and apparatus for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network A method and apparatus are provided for communication among many coordinator-based wireless networks connected together through a wired backbone network using wired/wireless connecting devices. According to the method and apparatus, communication is allowed between ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430183 | Communication system for connecting a communication apparatus to a specific connecting apparatus A wireless communication device can be wirelessly connected uniquely to a specific single wireless communication access point among a plurality of these access points in a roaming environment. Wireless LAN terminals input a connection ID for identifying a specific a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423985 | System for large area telemetry data collection networks System for large area such as citywide telemetry data collection networks using a Mesh network of nodes including a backbone network of nodes, usually powered, and a plurality of sensor nodes, usually battery operated, in the Mesh network to communicate directly or ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417998 | Wireless network device and communication method using the wireless network device A wireless network device and a communication method using the wireless network device are provided to simplify an association process of the device moving over different wireless networks and to enhance mobility of the device. The wireless network device includes a... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417997 | Method for communication in coordinator-based wireless network and method for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network A method for communication between first and second coordinator-based wireless networks connected through a backbone network is provided. The method includes receiving a frame indicating data transmission containing information needed for remote channel time allocat... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417996 | Method and apparatus for communication between coordinator-based wireless network and different type of network which are interconnected through a backbone network A method and an apparatus for communication between a coordinator-based wireless network and a different type of network interconnected through a wired backbone network by means of a wired/wireless connecting device are disclosed. In the method, in order to communic... | 08/26/2008 |
