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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189500 | Communication terminal and communication system A communication terminal having a control unit performs a station search for determining that a not-yet-connected station is included in connectable stations, and performs a trial connection to the not-yet-connected station for determining whether the not-yet-connec... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189499 | Cross-layer optimization method for controlling bit rate of video codec in transmission of video data in WiBro system A cross-layer optimization method for controlling a bit rate of a video coder/decoder (codec) in video data transmission for wireless devices such as a wireless broadband (WiBro) system terminal that adapts to changing transmission/reception characteristics and usag... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184562 | Process control system having dual wireless communication links Field devices or other devices within a process control system are provided with both hardwired and wireless communication ports to enable communications to be performed within the process control system using one or both of hardwired and wireless communications. In... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184561 | Terminal based packet loss due to mobility detection The invention proposes a method for controlling a packet transmission between a sender and a receiver sent via a packet transport protocol, the receiver being a mobile network element, comprising the steps of detecting whether a mobility event has occurred, detectin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179825 | Method and system for detecting radar signals A method and system for detecting RADAR signals in a radio communications system is provided. A detection system includes a pulse examination. Based on the result from the examination/analysis, a RADAR pulse is detected. The examination/analysis may include a correl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169938 | Communication system for wireless audio devices The present subject matter provides a system for wireless communications between one or more wireless audio devices and other electronics for providing a rich set of streaming audio, control, programming and enhanced hearing functions. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165048 | Wireless communication system, terminal station, and wireless communication method The invention includes a wireless communication system including a control station which transmits a wireless signal by one of a plurality of schemes, and a terminal station which receives the transmitted wireless signal using a plurality of directional antennas by ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165047 | Apparatus and method for forward link outer loop rate control using hybrid automatic repeat request in mobile communication systems An apparatus and method for Forward link Outer Loop Rate Control (FOLRC) using Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes receiving information, which indicates success or failure in receiving a packet t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165049 | Filtering of electronic information to be transferred to a terminal The object of the invention is a system, a device, a terminal and a method for filtering electronic information to be transferred to the terminal through a telecommunication connection. The invention comprises attaching a specific filtering parameter (30-3... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159981 | Determining transport block size using channel quality indicator value and block error rate In a TBS (Transport Block Size) determination apparatus, a CQI (Channel Quality Indicator) value setting section sets a CQI value which is transmitted from a UE (User Equipment) which communicates based on a packet transmission standard HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Pa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159980 | PS network with CS service enabling functionality Method and system for optimization of a handoff of a user equipment between packet switched and circuit switched networks in response to a request for circuit switched network services on the user equipment while the user equipment is resident on a packet switched o... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155037 | Transmitter-receiver There is provided a transmitter receiver apparatus in which a directional coupler and single pole double throw (SPDT) switches are includes on the reception side. In the directional coupler, a reception signal is inputted and split into two signals having phases dif... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155038 | Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method using bluetooth A wireless communication apparatus which is capable of communicating with a first wireless terminal holding a first data packet by Bluetooth includes a search unit, a first transceiver transmitting, a first controller, and a scheduling unit. The search unit reserves... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155039 | System and apparatus for cascading and redistributing HDTV signals Redistribution of multimedia signals or the like within a service area is performed by identifying one or more pieces of white space in the VHF/UHF spectrum, selecting a carrier frequency for each piece of white space spectrum, parsing the signal into a like number ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155040 | User equipment capability biasing In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and executable computer program to perform operations including receiving at a user equipment information from a network access node, prioritizing capability informa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149744 | Digital broadcasting system and data processing method A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system may include a signal receiving unit, a demodulating unit, a demultiplexer, and an audio/video decoder. The signal receiving unit receiv... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144636 | Methods for sending small packets in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network An improved mechanism is provided that facilitates transmission of small packets within an ad hoc peer-to-peer network. A small packet is identified to a receiver within a control channel so that its lower power can be considered in an interference management protoc... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139513 | Wireless base station apparatus capable of effectively using wireless resources according to sorts of data A wireless base station apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of wireless resources allocated in correspondence with communication processings on real-time data, non-real-time data and shared data, and a control section. The control section st... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130683 | Establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection When a request is sent by a switching unit, relating to the use of at least one subset of a codec mode configuration for the establishment of a transcoder-free operation connection by a radio network controller, it is checked whether the at least one requested subse... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130684 | Wireless communication system for wirelessly transmitting and receiving CEC message In a wireless communication system including a source device and a sink device for wirelessly transmitting and receiving a CEC message specified in an HDMI standard, a CEC controller of the source device generates and outputs a CEC frame including the CEC message. A... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121063 | Method and apparatus for handling timers during re-establishing receiving sides in a wireless communications system A communications device utilized in a wireless communications system has an RLC entity with a transmitting side and a receiving side. Handling timers during re-establishment of the receiving side includes only re-establishing the receiving side in the RLC entity of ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116244 | Method and apparatus for transmitting a superframe across a communication network A method and apparatus includes a scheduling entity (308) for scheduling and transmitting the superframe (402) across a communication network (200). The controller (310) coupled with scheduling entity (308) groups the subscriber un... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116241 | Wireless communication system and transmission device The present invention relates to a wireless communication system to properly switch over a transmission method of radio signals corresponding to a configuration of a receiver. The wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitti... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116242 | Receiver having multi-antenna log likelihood ratio generation with channel estimation error A receiver and methods of operation wherein Log-Likelihood-Ratio calculation are performed for arbitrary channel estimators with linear Minimum-Mean-Square-Error (MMSE) combining, successive cancellation combining, or joint detection. In some embodiments, the use of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116243 | Wireless sensor network and adaptive method for monitoring the security thereof The present invention relates to a sensor network having node architecture for performing trust management of neighboring sensor nodes, and to an adaptive method for performing trust management of neighboring sensor nodes for monitoring security in the sensor networ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107405 | Radio communication terminal A radio communication terminal according to the present invention comprises: a call request transmitter configured to transmit a call request for a destination terminal to a call control server; an input information acquisition unit configured to acquire inputted in... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102787 | MAC layer timestamping approach for emerging wireless sensor platform and communication architecture In the receiving side MAC layer timestamping approach, the MPDU structure is changed by adding an extra timestamping field. When a MPDU packet is generated, a captured receiving timestamp is written into the MPDU's timestamp field. The MPDU packet is then forwarded ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102786 | Method, system and apparatus for providing modulation and coding mode used by multicast service macro diversity The invention discloses a method, a system and apparatus for providing modulation and coding mode used by multicast service macro diversity. In this method, a message containing relevant information of modulation and coding mode(s) used by an MBS zone is sent in the... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098603 | Bandwidth adaptation in a wireless network An arrangement is provided for adapting the output bit rate of a multimedia source to the bandwidth available in a wireless network. Depending on the value of the available network idle time, at least a portion of the available network idle time may be used by the s... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098604 | WiMAX based point to multipoint system operating in frequencies below 1 GHz A system for the delivery of high speed data mission critical, private broadband wireless networks based on a modified version of the ieee802.16e-2005 standard and subsequent versions of this standard referred to, known as “mobile WiMAX”. The system comprises a ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094594 | Method for creating a peer-to-peer immediate messaging solution without using an instant messenging server A messaging method in a system including a wireless network, a routing server, and a plurality of mobile stations. A first mobile station has first communications applications and a first PIN and a second mobile station has second communications applications and a s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094593 | Communication apparatus, communication program, and communication method A communication apparatus of the present invention used for communicating with an external communication device is provided with a memory section to store a correspondence table associating users of external communication devices with contact addresses for contactin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094591 | Data carrier detector for a packet-switched communication network A data carrier detector for a packet-switched communication network. The detector includes an envelope detector to provide peak-to-peak amplitude of an incoming waveform at any given time, a peak-to-peak amplitude monitor to monitor peak-to-peak amplitude, and to se... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094592 | Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon positive and negative polling events and related methods A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one dat... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085697 | Method and arrangement in real-time data bi-casting mobile system An object of the present invention is to provide an improved real-time application performance for user equipments. The object is achieved by a method for bi-casting real time data packets in a mobile system node. The node is comprised in a mobile system, which mobi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085695 | Bootstrapping devices using automatic configuration services The present disclosure relates to attempting to automatically configure an unconfigured device utilizing a previously configured device and, more specifically, to attempting to bootstrap a universal plug-and-play (UPnP) access point utilizing a previously configured... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085696 | Dynamic modification of route update protocols A radio access network dynamically modifies a route update protocol of an access terminal in an active state that is in communication with the network, such that the access terminal reports a route update message upon satisfaction of a condition. The condition may b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081589 | Access points using power over ethernet An access point coupled to an Ethernet port detects whether it is using power over Ethernet, and if so, adjusts its operation to maintain its power requirements within those capable of being supplied by power over Ethernet. The access point might include a detector ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081588 | Methods and apparatus for increasing data throughput by grouping data packets into maximum transmissible units A mobile communication device has a wireless transceiver and one or more processors for communicating data in a wireless communication system. The one or more processors are operative to receive a plurality of data packets of varying payload size in a queue; associa... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081587 | Method, subscriber device and radio communication system for transmitting user data messages A method is provided for transmitting user data messages from a network element of a radio communication system via at least one transmission channel to at least one subscriber terminal of the radio communication system, whereby the form of the user data messages is... | 12/20/2011 |
