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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175024 | Bandwidth allocation for relay networks Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to relay networks or multi-hop networks, and also relating to bandwidth allocation for relay networks. According to an example embodiment, a method of allocating bandwidth in a relay network may include receiving at... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175025 | Wireless communication apparatus for selecting suitable transfer route on wireless network A wireless communication apparatus prepared in each of wireless terminals configuring a wireless network adapted to transmit and receive a data signal and terminal information to and from peripheral wireless terminals of a subject wireless terminal; to manage the te... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169945 | Maintaining network connectivity A network device may select between two or more network connections based on a determination of whether the network device can access general Internet resources via an available, higher-preference network without providing additional (e.g., OSI Model Layer Seven) lo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165059 | Multi-hop communication method, a multi-hop communication terminal and communication program The degradation of the communication characteristics and the throughput of the entire network can be improved. The failures of sending and receiving are reduced and the transmission time is reduced. In a multi-hop communication method how the source terminal 11 | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165058 | Protocol data units and header in multihop relay network The invention provides a data structure embodied in a computer readable media. The data structure is a protocol data packet (PDU) communicated in a mobile multihop network between stations. The data structure includes a relay media access header, a payload and an op... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159990 | Wireless audio data distribution using broadcast and bidirectional communication channels Embodiments include a method of communicating an audio stream from an audio source terminal to a plurality of speaker terminals. A broadcast channel is established for communication from an audio source terminal to a plurality of speaker terminals. A plurality of bi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159988 | Relay apparatus, relay method, and recording medium storing relay program A relay apparatus includes: a terminal position information updating part for updating position information of a wireless terminal and position information of a wired terminal stored in a terminal position information storing part, to position information of the wir... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159991 | Mobile WLAN repeater system A wireless local area network module including an input configured to receive a control signal, wherein the control signal indicates whether a vehicle is in a parked position. The wireless local area network module further includes a wireless local area network tran... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159989 | Relay network system and terminal adaptor apparatus The optimum relay route is selected out of a plurality of relay routes to a server. In order to solve a multirouting problem, introduced is a multi routing system for determining a relay route on the basis of a label corresponding to a terminal of an access source a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155047 | Communication station, communication method, computer-readable storage medium, and communication system, for relaying received data A communication station receives data from a transmission station, transmits a reception response representing the data reception condition, and determines, based on reception responses from other communication stations, whether communication station which has not n... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155048 | Resource allocation for rateless transmissions A method transmits a message of a source entropy from a source node, via a set of relay nodes, to a destination node, the set of relay nodes includes a node and a next node connected by a wireless link, wherein the next node is guaranteed to receive accumulated nats... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155046 | Apparatus and method for interference cancellation and synchronization maintenance over interference channel estimation in communication system based on full-duplex relay An apparatus and method for interference cancellation and synchronization maintenance over interference channel estimation in a communication system are provided. An interference channel estimator fixes synchronization and estimates an interference signal. An interf... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155049 | Method and device for user cooperative communication A wireless network system and corresponding methodologies that operates in a user cooperative communication system is provided. In operation, the system either combines packets transmitted from a direct channel with packets transmitted from and a relay channel, or u... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149756 | Method, apparatus and computer program product providing randomized relay network A relay node is provided for being interposed between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The relay node includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control unit. A transmission signal transmitted by the at least one source node is received by t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149758 | Wireless communication system Disclosed is a wireless communication method for executing transmission and reception of a radio signal among communication terminals via a plurality of base stations connected to an IP (Internet Protocol) network. One of the base stations performs AD conversion on ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149760 | Method and mobile system for path management in multi-hop cellular network and data frame used for the method and the mobile system A mobile system, a mobile system, a method for managing a path in a multi-hop cellular network, and a data frame used in the mobile system. The mobile system includes: an information receiving unit to receive information about at least one of link quality, traffic l... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149757 | Bandwidth efficient HARQ scheme in relay network The present invention provides an enhanced H-ARQ scheme that optimizes bandwidth utilization and spectrum efficiency. When an H-ARQ attempt is unsuccessful due to loss or error over a hop between the BS and MS/SS, then only the first node in the hop chain that fails... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149759 | Apparatus and method for processing bandwidth request in multihop relay broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system Apparatuses and methods for processing a bandwidth request in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. A communication method of a Relay Station (RS) includes determining a number of bandwidth request ranging codes received... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144640 | Location tracking in a wireless communication system using power levels of packets received by repeaters A location tracking apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving information from each repeater indicating which packets wirelessly transmitted by a mobile station were received by each repeater including received signal stre... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144642 | Method for controlling the synchronization in a communication system covering at least one cell for wireless communication with a line-limited or across-line wireless direct communication possibility between mobile parts that is synchronized with a base station In order to prevent in a communication system covering at least one cell for wireless communication, the system having a line-limited or across-line wireless direct communication possibility between mobile phones that is synchronized with a base station, that mobile... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144641 | System and method for implementing an in-band relay scheme A method for implementing an in-band relay scheme includes establishing a connection between a base station and a relay station and between the relay station and a mobile station using a frequency. The method also includes receiving data from the base station during... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134944 | Apparatus and method for configuring a relay frame control header in a multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system An apparatus and method for configuring a Relay-Frame Control Header (R-FCH) transmitted in an intermediary link area in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The method includes determining a modulation scheme of a Rel... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134945 | Apparatus and method for increasing cell capacity through optional signal combining between relay stations in a cellular system using wired relay stations A method, apparatus and system for increasing cell capacity through optional signal combining between Relay Stations (RSs) in a cellular system using wired RSs is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a Base Station (BS), an average Carrier-to-Interference ra... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134946 | System and method for scheduling in relay-assisted wireless networks A scheduling system and method for use with relay-assisted wireless networks includes accessing feedback from mobile stations in a network and arranging users associated with a relay station in a list in accordance with marginal utilities. A determination of whether... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134947 | Cooperative relay method and system in multi-hop relay network A cooperative relay method and system in a multi-hop relay network are provided. The method may include receiving, at a first time slot, resource allocation information from a base station, and identifying a first hop Mobile Station (MS) data zone, receiving, at the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130691 | Relay apparatus, communication terminal, and communication method A relay apparatus (110) includes a communication I/F (113) that receives an IP packet from a source terminal (120A) via a communication network (101), a broadcast wave interface (114) that transmits the IP packet received via the c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125939 | Base station apparatus, communication method and mobile communication system for restraining traffic quantity To provide a technology capable of reducing a processing load on a base station controller and restraining a traffic quantity within a mobile communication system. A base station apparatus connected to a base station controller has a first establishing unit establis... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125938 | Relay station and method for enabling reliable digital communications between two nodes in a wireless relay based network A relay station (606, 806a, 806b, 906a, 906b, 1006 and 1106) and a method (700) are described herein that enables reliable digital communications to occur between two nodes in a wireless re... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121066 | Radio network expansion method One objective of the present invention is to determine a location for a relay terminal in a radio network, without preparatory surveying a radio status, and to arrange the relay terminal at the location. Another objective is to provide a method for retrieving the ar... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111645 | Wireless local area network repeater with detection A frequency translating repeater (200) for use in a time division duplex radio protocol communications system includes an automatic gain control feature. Detection is performed by comparators (401, 411) ADCs (402, 412); DACs (404, 414) an... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107409 | OAMP for distributed mobile architecture A method of routing calls includes receiving a first call at a first distributed mobile architecture gateway (dMAG) from a legacy communication network. A routing path for the first call is determined based on register data associated with a mobile station, the rout... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107408 | Route maintenance and update based on connection identifier in multi-hop relay systems Connection ID (CID) assignment in multi-hop relay system can be used to perform routing. Using CID assignment as routing information in a multi-hop wireless relay system to maintain the routing structure is disclosed. In a CID cache scheme, a base station builds a C... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102794 | Cross-layer routing method in wireless sensor network Provided is a cross-layer routing method in a wireless sensor network including: locating a destination node which is a final destination of data by a source node which generates the data; and determining an optimal relay node among one or more neighboring nodes usi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102793 | Mobile wireless internet service provider system The system includes a waterproof housing enclosing selected apparatus, which may include a modem for receiving a signal from an ISP and providing an output signal, and a wireless router for receiving the output signal from the modem and providing an output signal, a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098611 | Relay coded multi-user cooperative communications for uplink 4G wireless networks Source nodes in an International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-advanced 4G network transmit data on uplink channels to a relay node and a BS using a channel code. The relay node decodes independently the data received from each source node, and applies network cod... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094603 | Apparatus and method for modulating of on-channel repeater Provided is a modulating apparatus and method of an on-channel repeater. An object of the present invention is to provide a modulating apparatus of an on-channel repeater for reducing time delay by configuring and up-sampling a baseband signal, filtering the up-samp... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094604 | Method of inputting data in a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same A method of inputting data into a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same are provided, in which first data is input in data input mode, at least one pixel value of the first data detected is registered at a predetermined reference position, se... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089914 | Relay and method of allocating bandwidth in communication system To allocate a bandwidth to a terminal, a base station in a communication system including a relay receives a bandwidth request code from the relay, and determines whether a bandwidth request code that is the same as the received bandwidth request code has been recei... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089917 | Method, system and apparatus of implementing inter-system communications Methods for implementing inter-system communications includes as follows: a serving base station selects a relay terminal, transmits a neighboring base station access request to the selected relay terminal; the relay terminal receives the neighboring base station ac... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089915 | Synchronous data transmissions by relay node A method of transmitting data in a synchronous communications network, which includes multiple nodes, includes communicating a super frame that includes multiple frames, based on a network cycle, each frame being associated with one of the nodes. Each frame includes... | 01/03/2012 |
