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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169976 | Transmission rate control method, mobile station, radio base station, and radio network controller A transmission rate control method includes: measuring, at a radio base station, a reception power of a DPCH transmitted from the mobile station; extracting, at the radio base station, a transmission data block size of the uplink user data from an E-DPCCH; acquiring... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8098631 | Group MMSE-DFD with rate (SINR) feedback and without pre-determined decoding order for reception on a cellular downlink The invention is a method directed to group MMSE-DFD with rate (SINR) feedback and without pre-determined decoding order for reception on a cellular downlink. The method includes initializing channel matrix estimates and inner codes of all co-channel transmitter sou... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094624 | Method and apparatus for minimizing packet transmission loss in a wireless network A wireless communication device, such as a wireless router or access point, transmits and receives signals according any one of several standard or proprietary wireless protocols and automatically adapts its transmission rate according to the condition of a link or ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085733 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for dynamically adapting packet transmission rates A method and apparatus for use by a first transceiver, (e.g., wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), access point (AP), node) for adjusting the transmission rate of packets transmitted to a second transceiver based on signals the first transceiver receives from the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059606 | Method for reporting channel quality through uplink common channel in wireless communication In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting and receiving channel quality information is provided. A base station transmits a command or indication a terminal to transmit the channel quality information, the terminal receives the command or ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050235 | Apparatus and method of providing transparent relay service to mobile station in a multihop relay broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system Apparatus and method of providing transparent relay service to a Mobile Station (MS) in a multihop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. The communication method includes checking, at least one relay station (RS), a sounding channel allocated t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8009635 | Reducing handoff latency in a wireless local area network through an activation alert that affects a power state of a receiving mesh access point If a handoff by a mobile station currently associated with a particular access point is probable, then the particular access point sends an activation alert to one or more other access points. An access point receiving the activation alert that is in a low-power sta... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7978658 | Reference transport channel on/off status detection and reselection In a wireless communication system using a reference channel used for error rate measurement and associated with a plurality of transport channels multiplexed on a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH), a method is employed for reselection of the reference chan... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7936727 | Transmission device, transmission method, system LSI, and program One transmission rate of a physical layer (PHY rate) is selected from among a plurality of PHY rates of a protocol stack by calculating one or more effective values of transmission rates of an upper layer of the protocol stack with respect to one or more PHY rates o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7869408 | Technique for output power dithering for improved transmitter performance A technique for admission control of packet flows is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for output power dithering for improved transmitter performance. The method may comprise transmitting a plurality of pac... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852810 | Dynamic adjustment of forward-link frame-error-rate (FFER) target Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the forward-link frame error rate (FFER) target. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service to at least one mobile station on a carrier in a wireless coverage area using a fi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7813322 | Efficient automatic repeat request methods and apparatus Different NAK signals are used to indicate different relative levels of success in regard to an unsuccessful attempt to decode a received signal. An ACK signal is used in the case of successful decoding. The device which generated and transmitted the original encode... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796560 | Performance of a receiver in interfering conditions A device 22 includes a communication system transceiver 40 for exchanging signals in a first frequency band and a receiver 30 for receiving signals in a second frequency band. In order to improve the performance of the receiver. A processing por... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7768978 | Wireless communication method and mobile terminal used therefor In a VoIP system that employs the AMR coding system, by classifying packets by means of unequal error protection implemented during data coding based on the AMR coding system, and by transmitting packets through transport channels 26 corresponding to the requ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7733830 | Enhancing streaming media reception for a mobile device during cell reselection The invention relates to a method for streaming of media from a streaming server (111) to a mobile client device (101) over an air-interface, wherein, after a cell reselection, the method comprises requesting the streaming server (111) to resend... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706330 | Method and system for link adaptation in a wireless multi-carrier communication system A method and system for link adaptation between a wireless multi-carrier access point (102) and a wireless multi-carrier communication device (104) is described. The wireless multi-carrier access point obtains a set of available LEP methods from the wi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701908 | Mapping of non-isochronous and isochronous channels A method of mapping channels in wireless communications is discussed. The method determines error rates on potential channels to be used in a frequency hopping communication system. The error rates and then used in mapping data to the channels such that isochronous ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7680082 | Cell selection in high-speed downlink packet access communication systems The usual determination of signal-to-noise ratio EC/I0 in a communication system is modified such that EC/I0 is also based on either or both of the path delay profile (PDP) and estimates of the load on a cell in the commun... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7623494 | Adjustment of a clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold Embodiments of adjustment of a clear channel assessment threshold are presented herein. ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7609677 | Internet protocol based information transmission in a radio communication system Information is transmitted in a communication system having at least two communicating devices using a link between the at least two communicating devices provided at least via a radio communication interface of a radio communication system having a number of base s... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7522561 | Outer-loop power control device and method thereof The reference SIR control command determination unit of a reference SIR control unit provides a DSP with a target BLER and obtains an observation time period Sinc and Sdec from a conversion table in which an observation time period T, a reference SIR increase step S... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7477627 | Method and device of adaptive control of data rate, fragmentation and request to send protection in wireless networks A method and device for adaptive control of transmission parameters such as data rate, fragmentation and request to send protection. Packet error rates for frames transmitted with and without request to send protection are computed and compared to determine whether ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7443821 | Method for clear channel assessment optimization in a wireless local area network A method for optimizing clear channel assessment (CCA) parameters in a wireless local area network having an access point (AP) and at least one station begins by receiving a trigger condition. An upper bound and a lower bound for an energy detect threshold (EDT) par... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444145 | Automated real-time site survey in a shared frequency band environment An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more radio sensor devices positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440431 | Method and apparatus for adaptive rate selection in a communication system A method and an apparatus for adaptive data rate selection in a high data rate (HDR) communication system are disclosed. An exemplary HDR communication system defines a set of data rates, at which an access point (AP) may transmit data packets to an access terminal ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437174 | Received signal quality determination A method of generating a received signal quality signal in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving a signal from a physical channel, extracting a transport channel format combination indicator from the received signal, processing one or more transpo... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7436803 | Apparatus and method for determining a soft handover in a CDMA mobile communication system A mobile station that determines whether to perform a soft handover in a CDMA mobile communication system and method thereof. The mobile station compares strength of a signal received from a source BTS (Base Transceiver Station) with a prescribed reference value. If... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433310 | Estimation of interference variation caused by the addition or deletion of a connection A method for determining whether a connection event between a base station and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) should be accepted or rejected, comprises measuring the interference level I0 in a candidate timeslot; measuring the path loss L between... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430178 | Error detecting method of mobile communication system A system and method detects an uplink error during the transmission of visual data in a mobile communication system. When such an error is detected in data which has passed an uplink radio section, a specific CRC code causing a ‘CRC fail’ is inserted into a corr... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428264 | Transmission power control method for a wireless communication system Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increas... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428425 | Method and apparatus for providing biasing criteria for binary decisions for use in wireless communications to enhance protection A criterion for biasing a binary decision requiring an unequal protection which utilizes a measured signal to interference ratio (SIR). The SIR may be derived from a determination of channel estimation. The SIR is compared against a threshold, the threshold being se... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426200 | Wireless communication apparatus and a method using the same A wireless communication apparatus and a method using the same are capable of transmitting data while changing a packet type according to a packet error rate. The wireless communication apparatus has a transceiving portion for receiving and transmitting a data packe... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423976 | Block error rate estimate reporting for target signal to interference ratio adjustment A method and apparatus is provided for reducing block error rate (BLER) estimate reporting to conserve system resources, while eliminating reports of BLER estimates unlikely to require an adjustment to target signal to interference ratio (SIR). A plurality of data b... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417955 | Method of tuning process for WLAN devices A method of a tuning process for WLAN devices is to select test channels of the DUT (device under test) by utilizing the method of random sampling or sequence. Besides, the method obtains a parameter average by averaging the parameters of the already tested channels... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408897 | Method for assigning home agent in mobile network A method, system and apparatus for selecting an optimal home agent in a mobile IP network, are provided. The method enables selection of a topologically optimal home agent for establishing an efficient communication link. The method includes retrieving a set of home... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408902 | Method of using a radio network controller for controlling data bit rates to maintain the quality of radio links A wireless communication method and system for controlling the current data bit rate of a radio link (RL) to maintain the quality of the RL. The system includes a core network (CN), a radio network controller (RNC) and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WT... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409215 | Mobile communication hand-off control system and unit When a first base station serving a mobile communication terminal in a standby mode, a first neighbor list is acquired from the first base station and stored in a memory. If the serving base station is changed in a standby mode from the first base station to a secon... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400899 | Method for controlling power level based on packet error rate in wireless personal area network system Disclosed is a method for controlling a power level based on a packet error rate (PER) in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) system. The method for controlling a power level based on a packet error rate (PER) in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) system, i... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400605 | Method for determining when a communication device should rate shift or roam in a wireless environment Methods for improving communication performance in a wireless communication system where the wireless communication system has at least one mobile wireless communication device and a plurality of transmitter/receiver sites. The transmitter/receiver sites have a geog... | 07/15/2008 |
