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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189502 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control channels by restricting a set of the control channels in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a control channel in a base station for a wireless communication system. The base station transmits information including a number of channel elements constituting control channels, to a terminal; establishes a set of control ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184565 | Wireless communication apparatus having self sensing function Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus having a self sensing function, which can detect an object by use of a wake-up function without employing a separate sensor. The wireless communication apparatus includes a communication unit wirelessly communicating w... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184566 | Systems for wireless local area network (WLAN) transmission and for coexistence of WLAN and another type of wireless transmission and methods thereof An embodiment of a system for the coexistence of a wireless local area network (WLAN) in power saving mode, and another type of wireless transmission is provided. A wireless transmission module is configured to transmit or receive data in two slots separated by an a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184567 | Communications device capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and method thereof, and Ethernet communications device A communications device is capable of adjusting power consumed thereby and includes a receiver and a control circuit. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter and a decoding circuit. The analog-to-digital converter receives receive-data from another comm... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184564 | Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of MAC addresses A method, a software product, and an apparatus to operate in a wireless device of a wireless network. The wireless device acts as a plurality of APs. The method includes transmitting bursts of management frames containing a broadcast-buffered indication for a corres... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179827 | Data processing apparatus and method for transmitting data in a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method for transmitting data in a data processing apparatus are provided. A data processing apparatus provided has a data input for receiving data, a processor for processing the data with an input, a data supply suppression unit whic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179828 | Precoding matrix index feedback interaction with discontinuous reception A user equipment (UE) is provided that includes a processor configured to transmit a preceding matrix index (PMI) using one of an assigned periodic PMI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) opera... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175018 | Data scheduling module, method, and computer program product thereof for a wireless communication apparatus A data scheduling module, a data scheduling method and computer program product thereof for a wireless communication apparatus are provided. The data scheduling method comprises the following steps: determining that the frame length of a second data transmission int... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175017 | Method of operation in a wireless communication system A method of operation (300) of a wireless communication system (100) includes: a client node sending (301) to the infrastructure node a message indicating that it intends to enter an unassociated state and a message requesting (303) the i... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175019 | Wireless network connection device and method A wireless network connection device and method are provided for setting a wireless connection to an access point (AP). The device includes a radio frequency (RF) module, a base band (BB) module, and a control module. The RF module receives a packet transmitted by t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175016 | Systems, methods and computer readable media for energy conservation in sensor networks Systems, methods and computer readable media consistent with the present invention address this and other needs by providing mechanisms for minimizing an energy cost within a wireless network having a plurality of nodes, including a plurality of transmitting nodes a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169940 | Techniques for device and piconet controller availability notification in wireless personal area and wireless local area networks An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising notifying of device and piconet controller (PNC) availability in wireless personal area network (WPAN) and/or wireless local area networks (WLAN) at the start of a superframe, wherein whether the P... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169943 | Method and a device for saving power in a wireless user terminal A method (400) for use in a cellular system with at least one controlling node (110), eNodeB, which controls user terminals, UEs (130), in a cell (120). According to the method, a UE can be in one of at least two different states (410 | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169941 | QoS scheduling methods for WLANs with heterogenous applications A wireless system (100) includes at least one power-save wireless station (PS STA)(102). A method of wireless includes allocating deterministic time intervals (206,207) to the PS-STAs. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169942 | Method for wireless multi-hop network Technology for a wireless multi-hop network is disclosed. a plurality of nodes in the wireless multi-hop network are synchronized to a period sequentially including a first interval and a second interval and are in an active state at the start time of the first inte... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169939 | Mobile computation device and data packet reception method thereof The present invention provides a mobile computation device and a data packet reception method thereof. The mobile computation device comprising a network communication module and a mobile computation unit, wherein the mobile computation device has a power supply for... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165051 | Radio terminal, radio communication system, and radio communication method A radio terminal includes a radio interface configured to allow radio communication with a radio base station, and a controller configured to control switching between a wake-up state in which the radio interface is turned on and a sleep state in which the radio int... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165050 | System and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network A system and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a short beacon comprising PHY information, wherein the short beacon excludes MAC information and transmitting the short... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159982 | Method, system and network entity for providing digital broadband transmission A method, a system, a transmitter and a receiver for identification of a time sliced elementary streams using PSI/SI tables. This identification provides a way to separate time-sliced elementary stream from non-time-sliced elementary streams by defining two descript... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155041 | Method for handover between heterogeneous networks using link trigger signal in multi-interface mobile router Provided is a method for handover between heterogeneous networks using a link trigger signal in a multi-interface mobile router. The method includes: maintaining a state of a second network access interface in a sleep state, activating a first network access interfa... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155042 | Method and arrangement relating communication devices A method for use in controlling transmit power of a radio transceiver for communication with a receiving and/or transmitting node is provided. The method may include transmitting a signal from the radio transmitter, the signal including a Transmit Power Control port... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149748 | Wireless data networking A meshing network comprising one full function controller (WDC) and a plurality of nodes (WDN, WSN), that is RF quiet capable with very low power consumption and the ability to quickly heal itself and create new network paths. The network uses an addressing scheme t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149746 | Battery level based configuration of a mobile station by a base station Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for battery level based configuration of a mobile station by a base station. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149747 | Power saving operation of always-connected wireless roaming Methods and apparatuses enable maintaining wireless connectivity while the wireless client device is in a power save mode. The system includes a host operating system (OS) that handles wireless connections while the device is executing in normal operation, and an em... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149749 | Mobile communications system and mobile terminal A mobile terminal judges whether or not the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, and, when judging that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, notifies a base station to that effect. If ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149750 | Device power management in a wireless network In various embodiments of the invention, a device in a wireless communications network may negotiate with a network controller to determine when the device may enter a power save mode. The power save mode may include period(s) in which the device is in a low power s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144638 | System and method thereof for dynamically adjusting sleep/awake intervals of wireless network device A system and a method thereof for dynamically adjusting sleep/awake intervals of a wireless network device are provided. The system has at least one base station (BS) and at least one wireless network device. The system performs the method to dynamically adjust the ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144639 | Dynamic mode transition based on resource utilization and user application A wireless communication system comprises a mode transition control system. The mode transition control system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The communication interface is configured to receive first information for a first user. The p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144637 | Method and system for optimizing power resources in wireless devices A method and system is disclosed for a device to quickly determine if data is being sent to it. If no data is being sent to the device, the device may return to a sleep mode so as to conserve energy. The present invention includes organizing and transmitting, one at... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134942 | Communication protocol for low-power network applications and a network of sensors using the same A network sensor system is provided that is capable of extremely low-power operation. The network sensor system implements a communication protocol that allows the sensors to operate at most times in a sleep mode, where only a low-power time is active. In this way, ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134941 | Power saving in signal processing in receivers A method of receiving a signal in bursts including frames each including payload data and error correction data received in separate time periods, the bursts being separated by time intervals during which power is saved by disabling at least some signal processing c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130685 | Mobile communication system, base station, mobile station, and power-saving transmission and reception method used in them There is provided a mobile communication system that can prevent a situation in which, although there is no occasion to receive packets for a mobile station, the reception processing is continued and useless power is undesirably consumed. The mobile communication sy... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125935 | Methods for reducing power consumption at transmitters and receivers Whether to process a control channel corresponding to a data channel carrying transmitted data based on a re-transmission indicator and a threshold value is determined at the receiver. The re-transmission indicator indicates a number of times the transmitted data ha... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125936 | Low power data streaming To save power, a controller formats data packets for transmission to a remote device and then enters a low power mode. A direct memory access unit reads the formatted data packets and presents them to a communication interface for transmission to the remote device. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116248 | Apparatus and method for power-saving in multiple antenna communication system A multiple-antenna transceiver in the present invention includes a frame controller and circuitry for transmitting and receiving. The transmitting component includes a sequence selection circuit, a MIMO modulation and coding circuit, and numerous TX RFE and AFE circ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116247 | Adaptive mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of mesh networks In a wireless mesh network of network nodes, there is identified a first subset of the nodes that have a direct connection to at least one end user, and a second subset of nodes that are necessary to maintain connections among the end users. The first subset is excl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116245 | Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of wireless LAN device A method and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a wireless LAN device that operates in a wireless network are disclosed. The method for reducing the power consumption includes receiving a high throughput (HT) frame; judging whether the received HT frame... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116246 | System and method for data transmission/reception based on an operational state of a mobile station in a communication system Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting data based on an operational state of a mobile station in a communication system. The method includes, when detecting a low battery state of the mobile station, storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111642 | Using traffic patterns to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset Disclosed is a method of using observed traffic pattern data to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset. The radio handset determines quality of service (QoS) requirements of an application currently executing on the radio handset and selects a pre-defined ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102790 | Saving power in a wireless network in the presence of multicast or broadcast data In one embodiment, when conditions are observed a wireless device keeps its radio circuitry powered down during a designated transmission window orchestrated by an associated Access Point (AP) for forwarding buffered broadcast and multicast data to reduce power cons... | 01/24/2012 |
