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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189505 | Transmission power control method and mobile station The present invention avoids deterioration in the radio quality caused by a transmission interruption of uplink user data, by periodically controlling an outer loop transmission power. A transmission power control method according to the present invention includes: ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189506 | Deep sleep mode for mesh points Disclosed herein is an apparatus, method and computer program embodied in a computer-readable memory medium. The method includes transmitting a beacon or a directed transmission from a first device to inform at least one second device in a wireless communication net... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184571 | Method of changing a source coverage area to a target coverage area in a terminal, a switching frame and a reverse-channel quality indicator channel thereof A switching frame includes information on a carrier-to-interference ratio that is included on a first time slot corresponding to a boundary with a previous frame and corresponds to a target coverage area having a first power level, and at least on up/down command in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8155051 | Apparatus and method for reducing latency in the transmission control protocol layer of a portable communication terminal Improving a transmission latency of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is provided. The apparatus includes a communicator transmitting a message for measuring power of a transmission signal to a radio access station (RAS) and receiving a response message correspo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149763 | Controlling a power level in a wireless communications system with different scrambling codes A power level of signals transmitted in a wireless communications system under a first or a second scrambling code, is controlled in an inner power control loop, where a quality measure is repetitively estimated and control commands generated from the quality measur... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139519 | Method for transmitting and identifying transmit power value in multi-user MIMO A method for transmitting and identifying a transmit power value in a multi-user MIMO scheme is disclosed. The transmit power value transmission method includes calculating available transmit power ratios for respective layers, reducing a number of bits used to repr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139518 | System for measuring a rise-over-thermal characteristic in a communication network A system for measuring a rise-over-thermal (RoT) characteristic in a communication network includes controlling a transmitting station to maintain its transmit power at a substantially constant level for a first time interval, and measuring a first received power le... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130694 | Method for controlling transmission power of HS-SCCH in UMTS system A method for controlling a power of a shared control channel for high speed downlink shared channel (HS-SCCH) in a system adopting a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technique is disclosed, which can control power of HS-SCCH by using the DPCH channel config... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130695 | Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating communications in a radio communication system that provides for data communications at multiple data rates Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a radio communication system that provides for multi rate data communications, such as a CDMA 2000 system that provides for 1xEV-DV communication services. A supplemental pilot, or control, signal ge... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116254 | Wireless repeater with smart uplink An over the air repeater for enhancing wireless communication is provided. The repeater employs a system and method by which strong signals can be prevented from exceeding the repeater's uplink output limits while still providing full operational gain to any concurr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116253 | Controlling forward and reverse link traffic channel power Forward link transmission power to a user terminal in a wireless communications system having a plurality of beams is controlled by determining a baseline power level, Pbaseline, from a received active pilot channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); determinin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098615 | Network protocol A system includes wireless network devices and a terminal device. The wireless network devices include a base station and plural repeater devices for routing data. The terminal device runs a network protocol to establish a presence in a wireless network that include... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098613 | Method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system In one embodiment of a method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system, a length of time over which a mobile station is permitted to re-transmit a packet or portion of a packet over a channel is controlled such that the length of time depend... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098614 | Channel-occupancy efficient, low power wireless networking An apparatus and method are provided for efficiently sharing a single wireless channel and for providing improved power saving. Automatic beacon “sliding” establishes a round-robin contention-free channel schedule among multiple IBSSs. Entering an idle state imm... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094606 | Adjusting transmission power under changing conditions A communication system includes a hub, a repeater, and a remote. The hub is configured to adjust a transmission power of the remote depending on an external condition based on (i) a measured carrier-to-noise ratio CNHubsignal1 of data transmitted from the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085702 | Pausing keep-alive messages and roaming for virtual private networks on mobile computing devices to save battery power Provided is a method, system and programming product for maintaining a connection between a mobile device and a server over a wireless network in a manner that conserves the power supply of the mobile device. The claimed subject matter addresses the transmission of ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081595 | Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel A method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions via an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) are disclosed. A scheduled power is calculated for scheduled data flows. A remaining transmit power is calculated for the E-DCH transmission. A rate request message is gene... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072915 | Common power control channel in a CDMA system and a system and method for using such a channel A CDMA communication system supports designated mode data bursts and contention-based transmissions on a reverse link common channel from a subscriber unit to a base station. When transmissions are scheduled and serviced in the designated mode data burst, collisions... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072916 | Mobile wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus using transmission power control information A mobile wireless communication system including a wireless communication apparatus and a counterpart wireless communication apparatus is provided, the system establishing wireless communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the counterpart wirele... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072917 | Methods and apparatus supporting adaptive decentralized traffic scheduling for wireless communications Methods and apparatus relating to scheduling of air link resources, e.g., traffic segments, in wireless communications are described. Various described methods and apparatus are well suited to wireless peer to peer networks in which traffic scheduling is decentraliz... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064381 | Method of controlling uplink output power in a wireless communication system A method of calculating uplink output power in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving a message which includes a command to a mobile station (MS) to perform handover from a current serving cell to a target cell... | 11/22/2011 |
| RE42919 | Power control with space time transmit diversity A circuit is designed with a measurement circuit (432). The measurement circuit is coupled to receive a first input signal (903) from a first antenna (128) of a transmitter and coupled to receive a second input signal (913) from a second ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054775 | Power control for reverse packet data channel in CDMA systems A method of reverse link power control for a reverse packet data channel in a wireless communication system allows a mobile station to autonomously change its data transmission rate. The mobile station transmits packet data over a reverse packet data channel having ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050214 | Method for entering silent mode and mobile communication terminal for the same Disclosed herein is a function for controlling sound output during power on. Upon the start of its booting-up process, a mobile communication terminal determines whether a key for entering the silent mode is pressed by the user. If the corresponding key is pressed, ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050215 | Scheduled power-saving method in IEEE 802.16e system A method for improving power saving performance of a mobile station in an IEEE 802.16e system is provided. The method includes a first process for determining whether a synchronization condition is satisfied, the synchronization condition being that a service connec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040831 | Method and system for control channel beamforming A system and method for managing control information in a wireless communications system. The method comprises broadcasting a predetermined number of preambles through beamforming from a base station, detecting, by a subscriber station, a predetermined frame associa... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8009605 | Low power, programmable modem for software defined radio applications A device reconfigurable to support communication using different communication technologies is provided. The device includes, but is not limited to, a plurality of communication processing modules and a switching interface. The switching interface couples to the plu... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000284 | Cooperative autonomous and scheduled resource allocation for a distributed communication system An access terminal (206) configured for wireless communication with an access network (204) within a sector (1032). The access terminal (206) includes a transmitter (2608) for transmitting a reverse traffic channel to the access ne... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000285 | Reverse link overload power gain control In one embodiment, a reverse link overhead channel power gain for an access terminal is determined based on the service activity of the access terminal. In association therewith, or independent thereof, the reverse link overhead channel power gain may be dynamically... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990908 | Addressable outlet, and a network using the same An addressable outlet for use as part of local area network based on wiring installed in a building, such as telephone, electrical, cable television, dedicated wiring, and the like. The use of such wiring for data communications networks in addition to the wiring's ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7974230 | Mitigating interference by low-cost internet-base-station (LCIB) pilot beacons with macro-network communications Methods and systems are provided for mitigating interference by low-cost Internet-base-station (LCIB) pilot beacons with macro-network communications. In one embodiment, an LCIB transmits a pilot beacon on the forward link of a carrier at a first power level. While ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974231 | Communication control apparatus and communication control method A communication control apparatus (30, 10) used in a mobile communication system includes: means (32, 12) that derives a second target communication quality Q2 for TFs other than a reference format from a first target communication quality for t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969928 | Method and apparatus for battery-aware dynamic bandwidth allocation for wireless sensor networks A method and apparatus that allocates bandwidth among wireless sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is disclosed. The method may include allocating transmission time slots for a plurality of wireless sensor nodes based on at least one channel quality metr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957335 | Dynamic power usage management based on historical traffic pattern data for network devices Particular embodiments provide power usage management for network devices according to historical traffic pattern data. Network traffic statistics for traffic flowing through a network device may be determined. A traffic pattern for a time period based on the traffi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948930 | Network protocol A system includes wireless network devices and a terminal device. The wireless network devices include a base station and plural repeater devices for routing data. The terminal device runs a network protocol to establish a presence in a wireless network that include... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940715 | Entropic based activity passive detection and monitoring system The present invention relates generally to computer systems in the field of signals intelligence, and more particularly, to entropic activity detection and monitoring computer systems for collecting and analyzing data packets wirelessly transmitted from a wireless t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936708 | Device, system, and method of wireless network selection and handover Device, system, and method of wireless network selection and handover. A multi-transceiver wireless device includes: at least first and second co-located wireless transceivers; one or more firmware modules to handle network selection of at least one of the first and... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933233 | Method and apparatus for providing service availability information in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for providing service availability information includes receiving a signal transmitted from a base station. A power level and interference level of the received signal is measured and an estimate of a power level of each potentially available ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929480 | Quality indicator bit (QIB) generation in wireless communication systems Techniques for generating quality indicator bits in a wireless communication system (e.g., a cdma2000 that implements IS-2000). In one method, a determination is first made whether a good data frame was received from a first transmission for the current frame interv... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929482 | Data rate selection in a constant power variable data rate two-way mobile satellite communication link A method an apparatus for selecting a forward link and return link data rate for a constant power, variable data rate two-way, mobile satellite communications link. The forward link and return link signal strength (in the form of carrier power to noise power spectra... | 04/19/2011 |
