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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189503 | Systems and methods for packaging and distributing information A system (190) provides information to multiple subscribers (105-125). The system (190) receives requests for different types of information from the subscribers (105-125) and stores rules for delivering the requested inform... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184569 | Method for terminal to join multicast broadcast service in wireless network and system using thereof A method for a terminal to join a multicast broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless network and a wireless communication system are provided, so as to enable a terminal to successfully join an MBS and receive MBS content. The method and the system relate to a wireless... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184570 | Method of transmitting data in wireless communication system supporting multimedia broadcast/multicast service A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system supporting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) includes transmitting a data block for the MBMS through a main channel, and transmitting the data block through a sub-channel if an error repo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184568 | Wireless LAN system and wireless communication method Each of a plurality of wireless terminals connected to a wireless LAN base station notifies the base station of an address for receiving data by one-to-many communication from the base station when said wireless terminal executes a program using the one-to-many comm... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179829 | Delivery of multicast and uni-cast services in an OFDMA system A method of operating a radio telecommunications network including, a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) each transmitting on a respective transmission bandwidth, and one or more mobile terminals (MTs) each having a respective maximum reception bandwidth,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179830 | Transmission control method and transmission control device A transmission control device determines cells, each of which has the number of reception users larger than a predetermined value, as a first group and sends data to the first group cells in the point-to-multipoint transmission mode. The transmission control device ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175023 | Radiocommunication system and multicast data distribution method in the radiocommunication system Radio resources are utilized efficiently and the communication quality is improved by flexibly adapting to the state of radio waves at a base station varying every moment or the topology of the distribution area of contents in multicast communication. The base stati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175020 | Method for the transmission and distribution of digital television signals A system for the end-to-end delivery of digital television signals. In a preferred embodiment a digital television signal is: received from production equipment, typically in HD format at approximately 1.4 gigabits per second (Gbps); the received signal is transmitt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175022 | Transmission of system configuration information in mobile WiMAX systems The particular frame in a super-frame using orthogonal frequency division multiple access techniques will contain system configuration information in the super-frame header. This super-frame header may be located at a fixed offset from the initial preamble of the fr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175021 | Method for transmission of unicast control in broadcast/multicast transmission time intervals Embodiments of the invention provide methods for maximizing the bandwidth utilization in the uplink of a communication system supporting time division multiplexing between unicast and multicast/broadcast communication modes during transmission time intervals in the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165055 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving time stamp to provide multicast service in communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a time stamp to provide a multicast service by a base station in a communication system is provided. Upon receipt of a multicast service request from a first terminal, the base station determines whether a second terminal exis... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165054 | Multicast service provision in a mobile communication system having overlapping pool areas A method and apparatus for establishing a user plane between a user plane entity and different access nodes assigned to different pool areas simultaneously for multicast or broadcast service provision. The method includes receiving at a respective access node assign... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165052 | Method and device for multiplexing broadcast service channel and non-broadcast service channel A method for multiplexing a broadcast service channel and a non-broadcast service channel includes: reserving TF resources for carrying non-broadcast service data on a sub-frame for carrying broadcast service data, and multiplexing the broadcast service data and the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165053 | Method for supporting MBMS service transmission in LTE system A method for supporting Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (MBMS) data transmission in a Long-term evolution (LTE) system includes a network entity (ECN) to which a user equipment (UE) is registered, receives an Activate MBMS context request message from the UE,... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159983 | Communicating packets in a wireless multi-user multi-hop relay networks A method communicates packets in a relay network. Multiple packets are communicated between a set of mobile stations and a relay station using a set of connections. There is one connection between each mobile station and the relay station. The multiple packets are a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159984 | Apparatus and method for detecting hidden nodes in a wireless network A wireless network comprises a plurality of nodes. An access point wirelessly communicates with the plurality of nodes, generates a table comprising a list of the plurality of nodes, and transmits the table to a first node of the plurality of nodes. The first node d... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159985 | Registering access device multimedia content via a broadband access gateway A system and method of registering or exchanging information about the availability of multimedia information and services is disclosed. Access devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN) and/or personal area network (PAN) may register, with a wireless broadband... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159987 | Method and system for embedding a data message in a pilot signal Disclosed herein is a method for data communication between a wireless-communication system and one or more wireless-communication devices. The wireless-communication system broadcasts a standard pilot signal over a pilot channel. The method comprises (a) the wirele... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159986 | Method for providing multicast broadcast service in communication system In a communication system, a plurality of radio access systems (RASs) respectively receives connection resources from an MBS server for transmitting a multicast broadcast data packet. The MBS server is involved in transmission of the multicast broadcast data packet.... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155045 | Supporting mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) and point to multi-point (PMP) communications among nodes in a wireless network Nodes in a wireless network participate in either point-to-multipoint (PMP) or MANET/mesh communications with other nodes on one or more shared channels of the network. A first or base station node transmits a downlink signal having a time frame structure of determi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155044 | Method for broadcasting alert message in mobile multi-hop networks using inferred distance prioritization A method and system broadcasts an alert packet in a wireless multi-hop network of nodes. An event is sensed in a source node of the network, and an alert packet is broadcast in response to sensing the event. The alert packet is received in a set of candidate nodes w... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155043 | Wireless communication receiver, system, and method for loading firmware A wireless communication system comprises a plurality of antennas, a plurality of tuners, a plurality of receiver ends, a bus, and a processor. Each of the tuners is connected to one of the antennas and one of the receiver ends. Each of the receiver ends has a corre... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149754 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, acquiring transmission-paramete... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149755 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast system and a method of processing data disclose. A receiving system of the digital broadcast system may include a baseband processor, a management processor, and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives broadcast signals includin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149751 | Method and system for transmitting/receiving multimedia contents via a radiocommunication network A method for transmitting/receiving multimedia contents via a radiocommunication network includes a first step of a first server transmitting an identifier specific to a multimedia content over a dedicated point-to-point transmission channel to all terminals registe... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149753 | Method and apparatus for allocating multicast connection identifier used for IP multicast packet transmission over portable internet network and transmitting packet using the multicast connection identifier Provided is a method and apparatus for allocating a multicast connection identifier (MCID) for Internet protocol (IP) packet transmission over a portable Internet network and transmitting packets using the MCID. More specifically, there is provided a method of defin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149752 | Media-access-control protocol for a network employing multi-user wireless channels A medium-access-control (MAC) scheduler, according to one embodiment of which a station of a wireless network evaluates data throughputs corresponding to three different transmission configurations for transmission of a packet over a first of that station's wireless... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139515 | Device and method of managing data communications of a device in a network via a split tunnel mode connection A device and a method for managing data communications of a device in a network are provided. The method includes establishing a secure communication connection for the device with a service provider via a tunnel mode connection. A determination is then made whether... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139514 | Method and system for communicating with multiple users via a map over the internet A method, device, and system for communicating with multiple users via a map over the Internet are disclosed. The device includes a processor for executing computer programs, a memory for storing data, an input module for entering user commands, a communication modu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139516 | Wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, communication management method and computer program A wireless communication terminal, which forms a wireless network with a plurality of other wireless communication terminals, includes a detection portion to detect a first communication management signal periodically transmitted via broadcast from another wireless ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134943 | Repeating multicast message transmissions in a wireless communications system In an embodiment, an application server determines a priority associated with a given multicast message for transmission to at least one access terminal, configures the given multicast message to indicate the priority of the given multicast message and forwards the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130688 | Multimedia broadcast multicast service providing system and method thereof The present invention relates to a multi-media broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) providing system and a method thereof. The MBMS providing system provides an MBMS to a terminal having an MBMS function. The MBMS providing system includes a service center and a r... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130689 | Method and device for the dynamic setting up and control of temporarily formed communications groups with secure transmission A method and a device are provided for the dynamic setting up and control of temporarily formed communications groups with secure transmission, in which nodes potentially participating in a communications group are connected via a common transmission medium. The tra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130687 | Multi-stage setup for long-term evolution multimedia broadcast multicast service transmissions A system for providing a service is provided. The system includes a central control to promote a plurality of cells to use a first counting method to determine whether user equipment within the plurality of cells are interested in the service. Based on responses fro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130690 | Communication system and gateway There is provided a communication system in which semi-duplex many-to-many multicasting service can be performed to both a mobile station and a base station by using a unified call control protocol such as SIP on an IP network, and can contain mobile stations and ba... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130686 | Multicasting push-to-media content In addition to other aspects disclosed, in response to an attempt by an access terminal in a sector of a wireless network to provide push-to-media content to another access terminal, the push-to-media session content is transmitted from the first access terminal ove... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125937 | Data over signaling (DoS) optimization over wireless access networks The present invention supports a communication protocol on a wireless communication network to transmit application data on the control channel to an access terminal. Base transceiver stations are grouped and configured into paging zones. The radio network controlle... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121064 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116250 | Medium access control discard notification A method is provided for a base station set (NODE B) adapted for RLC and MAC-hs signaling in acknowledged mode (AM), the base station set at least forwarding protocol data units (MAC-d PDU) from a Radio Network controller (RNC) to a user entity (UE), the method comp... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116249 | Wireless communication system and wireless communication device An access point transmits data frames to a plurality of wireless terminals by MC or BC communication. When the data frames are transmitted, data to identify the presence of the return of an ACK frame as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to transmitted contents... | 02/14/2012 |
