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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189541 | Method and system for generating timed events in a radio frame in an E-UTRA/LTE UE receiver A mobile device coupled to a common system clock receives a signal comprising a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) and a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) in a radio frame. Sample counts are generated for timed events based on corresponding operating band... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179867 | Apparatus and method for transmission opportunity in mesh network An apparatus and method of transmission opportunity in a mesh network is disclosed. A beacon timing from a receiver MP is received. The beacon timing includes a beacon reception timing of a received beacon frame that is received by the receiver MP from a neighboring... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169980 | Methods and apparatuses for interworking Apparatuses and methodologies are described that coordinate multiple wireless communication protocols within a mobile device. A single mobile device can contain multiple communication components (e.g., a Bluetooth component, an IEEE 802.11b/g component). To prevent ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165099 | Continuous packet connectivity (CPC) scheduler A base station establishes a data channel in an uplink between the base station and a user equipment, establishes a control channel in the uplink between the base station and the user equipment, and determines a gating configuration associated with the control chann... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160033 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packets in a mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic repeat request An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data in a mobile communication system supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ), e.g., a method and apparatus for performing HARQ retransmission on a packet received through persistent resources w... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160032 | Coordinating communications among wireless personal area network devices Embodiments of a multi-radio wireless communication device having two or more radio modules are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an initiating link manager may generate and transmit messages to a responding link manager. The messages may include a de... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160034 | Dynamic determination of EV-DO control-channel bit rate based on forward-link-timeslot utilization, control-channel occupancy, and amount of buffered forward-link traffic data Methods and systems provide dynamic determination of a control-channel bit rate. An access node provides service on a carrier comprising active and idle timeslots, active timeslots comprising a data channel for carrying a control channel at a bit rate that can be se... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155090 | Method and apparatus for efficient multimedia delivery in a wireless packet network The present invention sends multiple versions of a multimedia packet to the base station, and, based on the radio channel and traffic characteristics, an appropriate version of the multimedia packet is selected to send to the mobile station at a given time. In this ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149793 | Allocation of access slots to mobile stations in order to count the number of stations interested in a MBMS (multimedia broadcast/multicast service) A method of operating a radio network, such as UMTS or cdma2000, which comprises at least one primary station (PS), i.e. and access point or bare station, and a plurality of secondary stations (SSI, SS2, SS3), i.e. mobile stations. The primary station ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149795 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication in high-frequency band A beacon packet is provided. The packet includes a first information field that includes channel-time-allocation information in a wireless network; and information about whether there is residual channel time that can be allocated to a device that belongs to the wir... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149794 | Channel allocation management method for transferring asynchronous data, asynchronous data transferring method, and apparatus thereof A method of managing channel allocation for asynchronous data transmission includes (a) broadcasting a first superframe for a first beacon period, the first superframe containing a control section and a data slot section; (b) receiving a request frame from at least ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144669 | System and method for best effort scheduling A system and method for increasing bandwidth usage between an access point and a wireless device are described. One embodiment can include an access point, a prioritizer, and a priority storage device. These components can increase bandwidth usage between an access ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144670 | Channel allocation management method for transferring uncompressed isochronous data, uncompressed isochronous data transferring method and apparatus thereof A method of managing channel allocation for uncompressed isochronous data transmission includes broadcasting a first superframe for a first beacon period, the first superframe containing a control section and a data slot section; receiving a request frame from at le... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139548 | Method and apparatus for removing interference from uplink signal in Time Division Duplex (TDD) system A method and apparatus for removing interference from a UpLink (UL) signal in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system are provided. The method includes determining whether a section for receiving an UpLink (UL) signal from the MS overlaps with sections for sending a Dow... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139549 | Method of scheduling an uplink packet transmission channel in a mobile communication system A method of scheduling an uplink packet transmission channel in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method of scheduling includes determining a scope of user equipments (UEs) to be applied to a scheduling assignment for scheduling the uplink packet trans... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134983 | Base station, mobile station, and method of communicating for controlling a transmission time interval A disclosed base station apparatus includes: a TTI-length determining unit which determines, based on downlink receive quality information transmitted from a mobile station, whether data is to be transmitted in a first TTI with, as a unit, a predetermined period no ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8111671 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and computer program The present invention eliminates a transmission-waiting operation which is unnecessary while accommodating a prioritized traffic. Although a communication station enters a transmission-disallowed state in response to detection of a signal addressed to another statio... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107445 | Method for constructing RACH preamble and method for transmitting RACH signal A wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for constructing a RACH preamble according to a cell radius of a base station (BS) irrespective of a guard time (GT) and a method for allocating the RACH preamble are disclosed. A method for constructing a pream... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102821 | Packet scheduling method, base station, and mobile station in mobile communication system A downlink packet scheduling method is disclosed for a shared channel or a common channel in a mobile communication system between a base station and a mobile station, the method including a step in which the base station determines whether there is a waiting packet... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102820 | Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data control channel in a packet data communication system A method for transmitting/receiving a data control channel in a wireless communication system that transmits packet data. The transmission method includes transmitting packet data over a packet data channel, transmitting a control channel and receiving an ACKnowledg... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085738 | Preamble retransmission method in mobile communications system A preamble retransmission method in an Evolved Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) system is provided by which a terminal transmits a Radio Access Channel (RACH) preamble to a base station, the base station compares the received RACH preamble with preset speci... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085737 | Multi-transceiver mobile communication device and methods for negative scheduling A broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver of a multi-transceiver mobile communication device may transmit a negative scheduling (NS) request frame that includes time-related QoS parameters to a BWAN base station to request one or more negative allocatio... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081606 | Method and apparatus for allocation of an uplink resource A component in a telecommunications network including a processor configured, responsive to receiving a scheduling request from a user equipment (UE), to grant a minimum level of resource capacity to the UE for an uplink transmission from the UE to the component. Th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072944 | Staggering forward and reverse wireless channel allocation timing An apparatus and method for staggering forward and reverse channel time slot allocation in a wireless communication allows a wireless communication unit, such as a base station processor or a subscriber access unit, to transmit a return message in less than a full t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064410 | Methods and devices for scheduling transmissions in a wireless network based on traffic priority and channel conditions Methods and systems for assigning time-division multiplexed (TDM) slots in a multi-channel TDM system are presented. Preferably, a radio access network (RAN) assigns forward link and reverse link transmissions between the RAN and one or more wireless communication d... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8031111 | Compact transmission of GPS information using compressed measurement record format A format for providing messages among GNSS apparatus includes providing a message identification block and a message body. The message identification block includes information specifying a message length and a message type block specifying a message type. Rather th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031681 | Communication between overlapping WRAN cells working in different channels A common control channel for base station (“BS”)/consumer premise equipment (“CPE”) communication in areas of overlapping coverage by wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells operating on different working channels is disclosed. A common control cha... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027317 | Point-to-multipoint transmission of localized data The present invention relates to a method, system, network element and computer program product for transmitting a data stream in a point-to-multipoint mode from a source entity to a plurality of users in a predetermined area of a cellular network, said predetermine... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023474 | Systems and methods for communicating control data using multiple slot formats Systems and methods for communicating control information in slots that use at least two different slot formats. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless communication system includes providing at least two different slot formats, formatting control dat... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023473 | Multiple wireless networks management A multiple wireless networks structure comprising a plurality of beacon groups each comprising one or more devices communicating via an associated wireless network utilizing a superframe structure; wherein each device of each beacon group allocates a local control p... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014364 | Handover process and system with commercialization service A method for providing information to a first terminal system and/or a second terminal system which connected to each other through a network and are subject to a potential or actual handover, provides convenience information about the execution of the potential or ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7990932 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing initial cell acquisition and pilot sequence detection Disclosed herein are apparatus, methods and computer program products for performing cell acquisition and pilot sequence detection in a cellular telecommunications system such as, for example, an OFDM system. In the apparatus, methods and computer program products, ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983225 | Wireless network beacon timing An apparatus and method of a wireless network timing transmission of multiple BSSID beacons is disclosed. The method includes identifying multiple personalities of the wireless network, wherein a separate MAC address corresponding with each of the personalities. A b... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965689 | Reference sequence construction for fast cell search A method and apparatus for fast cell search based on a chirp reference signal transmission is disclosed herein. A primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) and two secondary synchronization channels (S-SCH1 and S-SCH2) will be utilized. S- SCH1 wi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961688 | Relay transmission method and apparatus A relay transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring a subframe of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) relay frame for a subframe of relay link (S201), where the configuring the subframe of the TDD relay frame for the subframe of ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953051 | Relay transmission method and apparatus A relay transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring a subframe of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) relay frame for a subframe of relay link (S201), where the configuring the subframe of the TDD relay frame for the subframe of ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953050 | Relay transmission method and apparatus A relay transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: configuring a subframe of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) relay frame for a subframe of relay link (S201), where the configuring the subframe of the TDD relay frame for the subframe of ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953049 | Method and apparatus for allocating receiver resources based on delay Receiver resources are allocated based on how subframes are allocated within in a frame between downlink and uplink transmissions and how often the receiver is expected to report feedback information associated with the downlink transmissions. Additional time is ava... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944894 | Packet transmission in a wireless communication system using multiple antennas A method of retransmitting packet data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a link map information element from a transmitting station having three antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity, wherein first, second and third packet data are t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936731 | Method of processing HARQ by considering measurement gap A HARQ processing method is disclosed, by which a measurement gap is considered. In particular, as a terminal performs an inter-measurement operation, if HARQ feedback information reception is impossible, the terminal determines HARQ feedback information, which is n... | 05/03/2011 |
