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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184572 | Real time control and management of a TDMA radio A method is provided to control scheduling of transmission and reception by a TDMA radio. This method allows individual transmissions and receptions to be independently configured for different frequencies, coding rates, modulation schemes, in fact anything which th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8134948 | Resource allocation method and apparatus in distributed MAC for wireless personal area networks A method for allocating distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) resources in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) includes calculating an acknowledgement overhead; calculating a Medium Access Slot (MAS) overhead depending on a payload length of a frame; calculati... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8111647 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a dual-beacon mechanism for two device types A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8085706 | Wireless communication method and apparatus A wireless communication method and apparatus for the same performs access control in the following manner, where an acquisition of a right to transmit is performed by CSMA access control method, and a collision of transmitted data packets among different communicat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8072920 | Method for signaling resource assignment information in a frequency division multiple access system A method for efficiently signaling resource assignment information to notify User Equipment (UE) of allocated resources in an Frequency Division Multiple Access mobile communication system is provided, in which a base station signals UE Identifications in the order ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064382 | Apparatus and method for scheduling in a wireless communication system A method of scheduling an uplink (UL) data packet on a packet data network (PDN) connection of at least one radio bearer by a wireless communication unit comprises receiving, by the wireless communication unit, a signalling message comprising at least one scheduling... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045502 | Method of reserving resources with a maximum delay guarantee for multi-hop transmission in a distributed access wireless communications network In a communication network (100), a method (400) of reserving X slots (610) for transmitting data from a source device (110A) to a destination device (110D) via multi-hop relay includes sending a first hop reservation request from ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040833 | Method for the transmission of data A method, system and computer program product for the transmission of data from a transmitter to a receiver according to the standard universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS standard). The present invention is directed to improving data transmission accordi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036156 | Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. In one embodiment, a radio head interface for a communications system comprises: a first interface for communicating with a signal processing module digitally performing waveform processing t... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031652 | Load balancing for an air interface protocol architecture with a plurality of heterogenous physical layer modes A system and method for dynamic traffic load balancing with a multiple physical layer modes of an air interface protocol architecture, the protocol architecture residing in a base station and/or an access network that includes a base station and access gateway that ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7995515 | Upstream resource optimization Systems, methods, and devices are described for scheduling and mapping upstream communications in a satellite communications system. The disclosure includes various channelization and frequency hopping techniques. A gateway is described to perform novel allocation o... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7965671 | Dynamic channel sharing using bandwidth metrics In a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), each node calculates a bandwidth output value representative of data output requirements for the node relative to the transmit time slots available to the node. This value is shared with other nodes in the MANET and may be employe... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7916683 | Wireless network system and method of transmitting/receiving data in wireless network Provided are a wireless network system and a method of transmitting/receiving data in the wireless network system, which separately set a period where a packet for requesting and approving bandwidth allocation of a network in a super frame period is transmitted/rece... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7839813 | Method and apparatus for reordering received packets in mobile telecommunication system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for reordering received packets in a mobile telecommunication system supporting HARQ so that the problem of order change is solved. The method includes receiving from a receiving-side HARQ entity an input of a packet and proces... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7706318 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving MBMS packet data and control information A method and apparatus is provided that enables a mobile terminal which cannot simultaneously receive two physical channels to receive a service that utilizes two physical channels. In one embodiment, the service data and control information are transmitted on separ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701893 | Method and system for efficient distribution of multicast services in a mobile network An acknowledged MBMS service in which a procedure for providing retransmissions of incorrectly received data blocks is performed, together with an outer coding of the data blocks to be transmitted to the MBMS MSs. A sequence of data blocks carrying information relat... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7688776 | Time-division multiplex arbitration with fractional allocation Disclosed embodiments reveal techniques for efficiently allocating time slots in a time-division multiplex (TDM) cycle among multiple channels of varying size, particularly when the channels do not all desire an integer number of time slots. TDM cycles can only allo... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7623481 | Hyper throughput method for wireless local area network A hyper throughput packet transmission method for a wireless local area network operating in burst and protection mode is provided. A first CTS frame is sent, comprising an NAV to reserve the medium for a duration. Upon completion of the first CTS frame delivery, a ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620006 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service guarantees using stateful monitoring of network load An approach is provided for supporting monitoring of network load. An allocation state is determined based on a bandwidth allocation value, a group load, and a guaranteed portion of capacity of a communication channel. The bandwidth allocation value specifies an act... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7596114 | Data transmission system in broadband wireless access system using band AMC and method thereof Disclosed are a system for transmitting data using a band AMC in a broadband wireless orthogonal frequency multiplexing access system and a method thereof. In a broadband wireless communication system, a method for allocating data bursts to a mobile subscriber stati... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7508785 | Downstream time domain based adaptive modulation for DOCSIS based applications In a DOCSIS based satellite gateway data is transmitted over a single downstream channel, at different throughput rates. Data destined for each subscriber/receiver is assigned a throughput rate depending upon the downstream signal quality of that subscriber/receiver... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7489651 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program In the case where there is a conflict over a band between communication stations that have reserved the band, the communication stations mediate and avoid the conflict of reservation use with low-load processing. In a wireless communication system, band reservation ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7474636 | Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network A scheme for realizing AV data transfer processing utilizing the transport layer protocol such as RTP protocol, between radio terminals in a radio system for carrying out data transfer after establishing a logical connection between radio terminals prior to data tra... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7466671 | Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network A scheme for realizing AV data transfer processing utilizing the transport layer protocol such as RTP protocol, between radio terminals in a radio system for carrying out data transfer after establishing a logical connection between radio terminals prior to data tra... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7450538 | Method for operating a system with a multiplicity of nodes and a base station according to TDMA and a system for this purpose A method is proposed for operating a system according to TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) with a multiplicity of wireless sensors and/or actuators as nodes (S.1 . . . S.n) and a base station (BS), said system being installed in a machine or installation, ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444169 | Wireless base station apparatus and wireless communication control method A wireless base station apparatus (100) used in a wireless communications system includes a statistical processing unit (140) that performs statistical processing on downlink radio quality information reported from a wireless communications terminal de... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436793 | System and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure A system and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure in a wireless network includes a forward receiver that monitors a wireless forward link for forward data that is transmitted over the wireless forward link by a forward transmitter.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433708 | Variable bandwidth in a communication system A method, device, and system that use narrowband channels to provide higher re-use without multiplying the operator spectrum requirement. If a communication system supports variable carrier bandwidth channels, the narrow channel capacity can be divided among adjacen... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433345 | Wireless LAN system and a method using the same A wireless LAN system and a method of using the same. The wireless LAN system includes at least one Interface Service Commercial module (ISCM) for collecting and transferring channel information related to channels in use for wireless networks located in a neighbori... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423987 | Feeder link configurations to support layered modulation for digital signals Systems and methods are disclosed for feeder link configurations to layered modulation. One feeder link system employs feeder link spot beam to antennas in distinct coverage areas to enable frequency reuse. Another system employs narrow beam width feeder link antenn... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423988 | Dynamic reconfiguration of resources through page headers Methods and systems for reconfiguring communications systems are provided. A communications system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module. The one or more radio head interface modules are adapted to communicate with ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418491 | Architecture for a centralized management system An example of a solution provided here comprises: providing a logical design, including at least one hub containing central management tools, and a plurality of lower tiers containing local management tools; placing components according to the design; and providing,... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412532 | Multimedia scheduler A song and ad scheduler supporting clip-based and stream-based scheduling of multimedia items generates several hours of schedule in advance. Having multiple channel capability, the scheduler uses as inputs: the channel, associated playlists associated, rotation pat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391711 | Method and system for adaptive modulation Methods and systems for adaptive modulation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a plurality of remote units of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a plurality... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391712 | Method and system for forward-looking tone allocation Methods and systems for forward-looking tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multipoint-to-point communications system comprises: establishing communication between a plurality of remote u... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388855 | Method for discovering a broadcast multicast services (BCMCS) controller in a packet data network A method and a packet data network for providing broadcast/multicast services (BCMCS) to a mobile terminal (MT). The method receives at a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server from the MT, for requesting an IP address of a primary BCMCS controller that s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382822 | Code acquisition device and method using two-step search process in DS-CDMA UWB modem There is provided a code acquisition device and method using a two-step search process in a DS-CDMA UWB modem. The device includes: an I/Q channel symbol generating unit for, generating a plurality (i) of nth I/Q channel symbols in a first search process ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366134 | Dynamic allocation of network resources in a multiple-user communication system In a multiple-user network communication system such as a satellite-based system, or in cable or wireless systems, the system resources, such as bandwidth, code allocation, and or slot timing, are allocated to users based in part on their class of service. The alloc... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366467 | Base station and mobile station in dedicated short range communications system A dedicated short range communications system can warn mutual approach between vehicles having mobile stations installed thereon through dedicated short range communications. Each mobile station includes: a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio... | 04/29/2008 |