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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159998 | Method and apparatus for improving a transmission signal characteristic of a downlink signal in a time division multiple access wireless communication system The invention relates to improving the quality of a received downlink signal in a time division multiple access wireless cellular communications network. The method of the invention comprises measuring a signal quality characteristic at a user equipment and comparin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149765 | Mobile station, base station, communications system, and communications method A mobile station includes a radio link control unit for outputting or inputting data that are transmitted or received via a radio channel to or from a higher-level protocol layer, a media access control unit for outputting or inputting data via a logical channel to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8125940 | Self-configuring, adaptive, three-dimensional, wireless network A network for wireless transmission of a media data in a building includes a plurality of access points. A first access point receives the media data from a source and transmits the media data downstream at a first data rate. A plurality of additional access points ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121068 | Techniques to improve co-existence among multiple radios Techniques are described that can be used to permit coexistence of different radios. Preambles of frames from a first radio are detected. If the preambles occur within a prescribed period of one another, then a frame synchronization signal is transmitted. Based on t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116258 | Self-configuring, adaptive, three-dimensional, wireless network A network for wireless transmission of a media data in a building includes a plurality of access points. A first access point receives the media data from a source and transmits the media data downstream at a first data rate. A plurality of additional access points ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116259 | Method and system for diversity processing based on antenna switching Methods and systems for diversity processing based on antenna switching are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include switching among a plurality of antennas in a multi-antenna wireless terminal to receive packets. An antenna may receive a number of packets befor... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111648 | Heterogeneous MAC protocol for forwarding VoIP traffic on wireless networks This disclosure describes a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that combines contention-free and contention-based MAC protocols into a heterogeneous MAC protocol used for forwarding VoIP traffic in VoIP systems on wireless networks which addresses the need to ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107413 | Method for allocating multiple radio communication periods A method for allocating multiple radio communication periods to an MS supporting co-existence mode is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a co-existence mode request message to a BS by the MS, receiving information about the position of a start frame for the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102796 | Wireless data communication method and wireless data communication system A method for transmitting and receiving data packets between a master device and at least one slave device using a synchronized data communication protocol. In the method, a time period to be used between consecutive packets to be transmitted to the master device is... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094607 | Method and system for saving bandwidth during broadcasting/multicasting Multi-channel network communication is improved by reducing the amount of data that is transmitted over connections that can stem from a similar source. Content of data packets transmitted from the source are reduced and the result is compared to previously transmit... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089918 | Time information receiver and radio controlled watch A standard time and frequency signal receiver receives a time code in which a plurality of data pulses “1”, “0” and “P” which are identified by width are arranged one in a respective one of unit periods of the standard signal. An amplitude of a detected ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068449 | Hybrid coordination function (HCF) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7936709 | Distributed beacon enabled wireless networks In a wireless network that includes multiple nodes, each periodic announcement cycle of a communication schedule is partitioned into a set of time slots, including a set of management time slots, a set of beacon time slots, and a set of superframe time slots. Manage... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7860045 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data traffic on a wireless communication channel Methods and apparatus are presented for scheduling data packet transmissions during optimal channel conditions. In one method, data packet retransmissions are scheduled for transmission during favorable channel conditions when the target remote station is moving slo... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7773552 | Mobile communication system and mobile communication method A mobile communication system includes a home agent which transfers a communication packet to a mobile communication device connected to a foreign network, an address management section which manages a plurality of IP addresses, an address generation section which a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7756072 | System and method for passively monitoring customer control messages in a multicast VPN A system and method to passively monitor multicast control traffic in the provider backbone. A monitoring station is located within the service provider network. Upon creation of an MVPN session, this monitoring station joins the default multicast distribution tree ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746817 | Communication timing control for allotting a time slot by a distributed coordination through interaction with neighboring nodes A transmission timing control apparatus included in a network node constituting a telecommunications system is configured to use the reception timing of a timing signal from another node to determine the transmission timing of a timing signal of the own node and det... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7616596 | Apparatus and method of determining uplink priority in wireless mobile communication system Provided is a wireless mobile communication system in which a mobile station reports a headroom value indicating the magnitude of currently used transmission power and additionally usable transmission power. An uplink scheduling method of a Base Transceiver Station ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7593361 | Method of operation for a three-dimensional, wireless network A method of operation for wireless transmission of data to one or more destination devices across a network that includes a plurality of access points disposed about a building, each access point having a first transmission range of maximum bandwidth and a second tr... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590084 | Self-configuring, adaptive, three-dimensional, wireless network A network for wireless transmission of a media data in a building includes a plurality of access points. A first access point receives the media data from a source and transmits the media data downstream at a first data rate. A plurality of additional access points ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7428244 | Data transmission In order to measure the rate at which a terminal 2 can receive data from a source 5, 6, 7 the source temporarily increases it transmitting rate. The time taken to receive these higher-rate transmissions is measured at the terminal (or acknowledged by t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428231 | Channel sharing method and device thereof A channel sharing method and device thereof are disclosed. The method starts by providing a plurality of channels, wherein each of the channels comprises a time interval. A time slot having a width being X times of a maximum value of all the time intervals is provid... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7397774 | Downlink data multiplexer A data multiplexer that accommodates both industry standard CCSDS data packets and bits streams and standard IEEE 1394 data is described. The multiplexer provides a statistical allotment of bandwidth to the channels in turn, preferably four, but expandable in increm... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7379432 | Hybrid coordination function (HCF) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372834 | Method of controlling transmission power of retransmission packet and mobile terminal using the same The transmission power of a retransmission packet is controlled in the event of a packet retransmission request being sent from a receiving side in a wireless mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) transmission. In a me... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373652 | Server-centric search function in an interactive program guide Techniques for searching a program guide database. In accordance with a method, one or more search criteria (e.g., keywords) are received and a request for a search is then sent, along with the search criteria, to a head end of an information distribution system. In... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366126 | Modified-beacon, bandwidth-access control in wireless network communication system Apparatus and a method employable in a wireless communication network for managing, among plural communication stations in a group of such stations, bandwidth-sharing of available, unused bandwidth. Implementation and practice of the invention involve (a) establishi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362723 | Wireless routing mechanism for same group and inter-group operations covering both wire network and wireless network The present invention is to provide a wireless routing mechanism by applying a management frame defined in IEEE 802.11 standard to different access points (AP) in a wireless distribution system (WDS) and adding an information element (IE) to the management frame, en... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352693 | Fault tolerant wireless communication systems and methods Systems and methods for fault tolerant communication are provided. A base site is coupled to a central office via a channel service unit. The channel service unit is coupled to the central office via primary and secondary communications links. A first and second per... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343141 | Concurrent content capturing radio systems and methods An enhanced radio system is disclosed that provides for the capture and playback of one or more radio stations. The user may tune to a station, or scan through stations, rewind to hear what was missed (even while the system is turned off), and fast-forward through u... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330457 | Cooperative wireless communications When it is advantageous to do so, a wireless LAN station sends data packets to a destination station via an intermediate station, instead of to the destination station directly. That is, the intermediate station, which serves as a helper to the source, forwards pack... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327700 | Flexible multi-channel multi-thread media access controller and physical layer interface for wireless networks A wireless signal processor for handling a plurality of wireless sessions comprises a plurality of baseband receivers, one for each session, each receiver producing a digital output, a multiplexer for multiplexing the plurality of digital outputs into a single data ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321572 | Frame relay protocol-based multiplex switching scheme for satellite mesh network A frame relay protocol-based earth station interface architecture provides full mesh connectivity for a relatively small number of network stations. The fundamental component of the architecture is a frame relay protocol-based switch, which employs a network interfa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7308005 | Time division multiple access system and method for using available TDMA slot time to transmit additional messages A method and system for providing time division multiple access communications is disclosed. The disclosure includes sending a first message in a time slot. The time slot has a slot length. The first message has a first time associated therewith. The first time incl... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307955 | Method and equipment for lossless packet delivery to a mobile terminal during handover A “loose ACK” method by which a radio access network of a cellular network monitors wireless transmission of packets according to a layered protocol including a radio layer (near the physical layer) and an upper layer, the method including: a step (23) of... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304972 | Method and device for establishing communication links and handling unbalanced traffic loads in a communication system A wireless communication network includes a plurality of mobile nodes each including a transceiver, a directional antenna, such as a phased array antenna, connected to the transceiver, and a controller connected to the transceiver. The controller schedules a respect... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302699 | Logged-in device and log-in device A management agent ME1 of a target T1 receives a request of log-in from an initiator of interest and determines whether or not a number of initiators that currently log in the target T1 reaches a predetermined allowable number of simultaneous lo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298748 | Method of packet transmission and wireless communication device Provided is a method of packet transmission capable of efficiently utilizing ACL link resources in transmitting and receiving packets after an ACL link is established in Bluetooth. A Bluetooth device A determines the maximum rate for packet size to be transmitted to... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295542 | System and method for beacon timing control in a mixed IEEE 802.11 network In a mixed IEEE 802.11 network, a system and method are provided for preventing beacon delays. The method comprises: establishing communications between an IEEE 802.11e access point (QAP) and at least one IEEE 802.11 station (STA); determining a safety interval with... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292547 | Device and method for nodal multiple access into communications channels A nodal division multiple access technique for multiple access to a communications channel such as a satellite transponder. The present invention provides multiple access into a communications channel where each accessing site utilizes one signal from a composite am... | 11/06/2007 |
