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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116271 | Methods and apparatus to allocate acknowledgement channels A method and apparatus allocate acknowledgement channels in a communication network. A linking scheme is established between indices of physical hybrid automatic repeat-request indicator channels (PHICHs), and a combination of indices of control channel elements (CC... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116267 | Method and system for scheduling users based on user-determined ranks in a MIMO system In a wireless network comprising a plurality of subscriber stations and a base station capable of providing service to the subscriber stations, a subscriber station is provided that includes a rank selector and a scheduling data reporter. The rank selector is operab... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116276 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method 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 mul... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116275 | System and network for wireless network monitoring A technique for wireless network monitoring involves scanning channels using clients instead of access points. An example of a method according to the technique may include, for example, receiving from a wireless access point a command to perform a channel scanning ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116273 | Apparatus and method for supporting hybrid automatic repeat request in a broadband wireless communication system A broadband wireless communication system using a plurality of Frequency Allocations (FAs) is provided. A method for packet transmission of a packet of a transmitting end includes dividing one encoded packet into a plurality of parts, mapping a plurality the plurali... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116270 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel quality indicator in communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a communication system are provided. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to transmit, when a CQI transmission time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmiss... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116269 | Methods for optimal multi-channel assignments in vehicular ad-hoc networks A communications path is established among an ordered sequence of moving nodes, representing vehicles. Available channels may differ from one node to the next node and a node cannot use the same channel for both receiving and transmitting information. Three methods ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116268 | Method for controlling data transmission A method for controlling data transmission comprising following steps of: obtaining transmission delays and time differences between a RNC and respective base stations by the RNC; configuring cells and a common channel for data transmitting by the RNC; controlling a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116274 | Method and apparatus for reporting a buffer status A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) reports a buffer status as part of scheduling information for enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transmissions. For reporting the buffer status, the WTRU calculates a total amount of data available across all logical channels ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116272 | Method for dealing with the packet domain gateway support node errors A method for dealing with the packet domain gateway support node errors, including: a Radio Network Controller (4) sends a notification message to a Serving GPRS Support Node (2) according to an error indication message; in the case of a direct tunnel,... | 02/14/2012 |
| RE43180 | Management of packet switched connections in a mobile communications network In connection-oriented switching of packet data in known mobile communications systems, resources of the transmission path between the serving node (SGSN) and the radio network subsystem (RNS) and memory resources of the radio network subsystem are reserved unnecess... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116277 | Method for receiving ACK/NACK signal in mobile communication system Methods for receiving ACK/NACK signals in a mobile communication system are disclosed. One of the methods including receiving reference signal information and a resource block index corresponding to resource block allocated for transmission of data; identifying ACK/... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111655 | System and method of base station performance enhancement using coordinated antenna array In wireless system, a group of Basestations (BTSs) can be managed by a centralized network management identity or can be self-organized by communicating with each other via wireless air-interfaces or wired interfaces. One such example are Femtocell systems. When the... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111652 | Base station, radio communication system, and communication method A base station comprises a packet classification unit configured to classify packets received/transmitted from/to a plurality of mobile stations into a quantitative guarantee type packet having a request value for communication quality or a relative guarantee type p... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111657 | Optimising communication links A method allocates transmission channels to transmit nodes in a wireless network, the network comprising receive nodes and respective transmit nodes. Each receive node receives a data signal from its respective transmit node and is subject to interference from other... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111659 | Method and apparatus for efficient bandwidth utilization for subscriber unit initialization and synchronization in a time-synchronized communication system A bandwidth efficient subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus is described. The inventive subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus uses a combination of an access burst format and a data transportation t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111658 | Method for packet-switching interface for code division switching in a terrestrial wireless system An access radio port is provided that includes means for spreading a payload data signal, extracted from an ATM packet, with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code, means for transmitting the spread payload data signal to one of a group of mobile subscriber terminals l... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111654 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgement (ACK) frames A wireless communication system and method for wireless communication are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet via a channel. The device further includes ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111653 | Wireless transmission system having reduced interference In the present invention, a wireless transmission system includes a plurality of mobile stations in a cell area, and a base station. The base station divides each of an uplink frame and a downlink frame into a plurality of blocks, assigns a specific one of the plura... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111656 | Method and apparatus for providing random access window configuration An approach is provided for providing random access window configuration by estimating a processing time margin for processing random access preambles received in one or more random access channels. The estimated processing time margin is then used to offset the res... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107427 | Wireless communication sharing in a common communication medium Performing wireless communication using first and second wireless communication protocols. The first and second wireless communication protocols may operate in a common communication medium. The wireless communication may be performed using the protocols over the co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107424 | Method for an random accesses in a local network Random accesses are regulated in a radio-assisted local network having at least one access point, a reachable radio station located in the radio coverage area of the at least one access point, at least one remote radio station located outside the radio coverage area... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107426 | Method and apparatus for allocating and signaling ACK/NACK resources in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for allocating and signaling ACK/NACK resources in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a Node B determines to use ACK/NACK resources within a predetermined fixed-size first resource group for ACK/NACK transmission for non-pe... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107428 | Method of ranging signal design and transmission for MIMO-OFDMA initial ranging process A mobile communication system uses a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) scheme. At network entry, an initial ranging method selects from multiple ranging signal designs to accomplish the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107430 | Intelligent traffic channel assignment message transmission Disclosed herein is a method for selecting one or more capsules in which to include a traffic channel assignment message. The method may involve: (a) receiving a request from an access terminal to engage in a communication session; (b) making a determination as to w... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107425 | Radio quality based channel resource management The present invention provides a quality based resource management in a radio communications system. In this resource management, channel resources are dynamically allocated to a multiresource capable mobile unit based on a radio quality of a radio link between the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107429 | System and method for protecting payload information in radio transmission System and method for improving the protecting radio channels in transmission, according to which the payload information of the signal to be transmitted is divided into a plurality of data portions of smaller size which are then grouped into packets and the packets... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102802 | Method and apparatus for providing downlink acknowledgments and transmit indicators in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system A communication system provides downlink acknowledgments corresponding to uplink transmission using hybrid automatic repeat request to multiple users in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system, wherein a frequency bandwidth comprises multi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102803 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication of packet data using transmit diversity weighting A method and apparatus for transmit diversity in packet data communications includes applying an initial transmit antenna weight. A link adaptation signal is received and analyzed. A transmit antenna weight change is determined based upon the analysis of the link ad... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102806 | Method of supporting data retransmission in a wireless communication system A method of supporting data retransmission in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of supporting data retransmission in a wireless communication system which uses multiple carriers includes receiving NACK from a user equipment in response to a tran... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102807 | Selectively managing mobile station subscriptions between fully used zones and segmented zones A base station receives a connection request from a mobile station. A scheduling module determines whether the fully used and/or segmented zones of the base station are oversubscribed. If the fully used zone is oversubscribed while the segmented zone is not, the mob... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102804 | Method for transmitting and receiving random access request and transmitting and receiving random access response A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number info... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102808 | Method for ensuring medium access in a wireless network Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of a data stream from a station. A QoS registration frame is received, via an access point, from the station. The QoS registration frame includes information indicating a request for transmission of a data stream fro... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102805 | HARQ in spatial multiplexing MIMO system An exemplary method for signaling scheduling information includes scheduling first and second transport blocks for simultaneous transmission during a first transmission interval on first and second data substreams, respectively, assigning a single re-transmission pr... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098622 | Method for requesting resource and scheduling for uplink traffic in mobile communication and apparatus thereof The present invention relates to a resource allocation requesting method and a packet scheduling method for uplink packet traffic in a mobile communication system, and an apparatus of the packet scheduling method. For efficient scheduling for the uplink traffic, sch... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098623 | Telecommunications frame structure accomodating differing formats A radio access network (RAN) (20) comprise a base station (28) and a wireless terminal (30). The base station 28 comprises a transceiver (38) and a frame handler (40), the wireless terminal (30) comprises a transceive... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098624 | Method of controlling packet service setup and mobile communication system A method for controlling packet service setup includes the steps of: transmitting a packet service request message containing a requested QoS to a packet service node by a mobile communication terminal; transmitting to the mobile communication terminal a packet serv... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098621 | Compatible broadcast downlink and unicast uplink interference reduction for a wireless communication system Embodiments of the current invention reduce interference from a mobile station (UE) uplink transmission to a received broadcast downlink transmission through a network-based scheduling of time-slotted downlink broadcast transmissions, so that they do not occur concu... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094613 | Enhanced high traffic density CDMA wireless systems A method of assigning calls to a hot cell site. A hot cell site is a cell site for carrying highly concentrated traffic, which cell site supports only a proper sub-set of the frequencies supported by other (basic) cells. It is surrounded by hot zones of other (basic... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094614 | System and method for adaptive queuing for discontinuous wireless channels A method and system for data transmission on wireless discontinuous channels. The method and system include adjusting ordering of a plurality of transmission units in a queue to be transmitted in a wireless discontinuous channel to reduce unusable channel access tim... | 01/10/2012 |
