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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189550 | Radio communication device, radio communication method and radio recording medium A radio communication method for a radio communication device having a first communication unit and a second communication unit includes determining whether a connection between the radio communication device and a local-area radio network is in a difficult state wh... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189546 | Data transmission/reception method for multicast and broadcast service in broadband wireless access system Disclosed is a data transmission method for an MBS in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes the steps of constructing a Wibro frame by adding an FEC zone to a downlink portion of the Wibro frame by a radio access station, the FEC zone containing an... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189549 | System and method for indicating a subscriber's zone within converged telecommunications networks A system and related method provide a registration request via an access point, wherein the access point is associated with a defined service zone. In response, an authorization signal to access telecommunications services is received. The authorization signal inclu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189552 | Mobile router that monitors links A mobile router having a link monitor module is disclosed. The mobile router may be installed in a mobile vehicle and permit a local end-user to access wide area networks (e.g., the Internet) via the mobile router. The link monitor module may monitor the layer 2 and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189543 | Media exchange network supporting remote peripheral access Systems and methods that provide remote access are described. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a plurality of communication devices and a media device. The plurality of communication devices may be operatively coupled to a network and may includ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189548 | Authorizing access to telecommunications networks for mobile devices, such as mobile devices accessing networks via non-traditional entry points A system and method for authorizing mobile devices to carrier networks via non-traditional entry points is described. In some examples, the system reviews a registration message sent during establishment of a communication session between the mobile device and the c... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189544 | Method of creating security associations in mobile IP networks A key distribution scheme is provided, which is useful for establishing, distributing, and maintaining security associations in a Mobile IP network. An authentication server performs an initial validation of a new session and generates a root key which it delivers t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189545 | Wireless communication system, wireless LAN access point and settings confirmation/change method used therefor There is provided a wireless LAN access point capable of confirming and changing the setting using the IP communication for a target wireless LAN access point positively even when the IP address of the wireless LAN access point is forgotten. The wireless LAN access ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189547 | Self-configuration of wireless access devices in a wireless network environment A self-configuration method for access devices in a wireless network begins by performing wireless data collection with the access devices during an automated calibration period. During this time, each access device receives beacons from one or more transmitting acc... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189542 | Voice and data wireless communications network and method A wireless local area network that carries mixed traffic of voice and data communications may be provided. The wireless local area network may include an access point and a plurality of remote terminals that are associated with the access point. The access point may... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189551 | Mobile station traffic routing Devices, networks and methods relating to routing gateway traffic in a mesh network for wireless access. A mesh network has multiple nodes in at least one gateway node through which all incoming and outgoing data traffic pass through. The nodes provide wireless acce... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184605 | Internet-orientated ad-hoc network A hierarchical directional internet-oriented ad-hoc network, defined by a software infrastructure, is composed of gateway nodes and a plurality of wireless nodes, which may be fixed or mobile, and which may act as subscribers, routers, or both. The infrastructure hi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184603 | Communication system having a community wireless local area network for voice and high speed data communication A system (100) and method for providing high capacity voice and high speed data communication between user equipment terminals (UEs 104) and a public network (108). Generally, the system (100) includes a community Wireless Local Area Netw... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184604 | Wireless communication apparatus capable of performing aggregated transmission When a communication is performed between an access point and a wireless terminal according to the IEEE 802.11 of a wireless LAN communication, a MAC layer block of a wireless communication apparatus used as the access point adds an identifier showing a support of a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184602 | System and associated terminal, method, and computer program product for configuring and updating service access points and providing service content in the mobile domain Various techniques for service access point configuration for mobile terminals of wireless systems are provided. Pre-configured service access point settings may be provided on a multimedia memory card with a client application capable of configuring the service acc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184601 | Method for radio communication in a wireless local area network wireless local area network and transceiving device The invention refers to wireless local area networks (WLAN) consisting of a multitude of transceivers capable of establishing communication with one another (i.e. operating in a peer-to-peer mode) under the control of network coordinator (the so-called “ad hoc” ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179874 | Automatic tunnel configuration method using router advertisement message An automatic tunnel configuration method using a router advertisement message is provided, including: periodically receiving a router advertisement message containing a tunnel end-point address option from an access router of an internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) ne... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179873 | Method to quite consecutive narrow band channels A method and apparatus for quieting multiple channels is provided herein. During operation, transmission activity on each channel is analyzed and a best band is identified. Once the band is chosen, a wideband transmitter is utilized to transmit simultaneous reservat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179871 | Method and system for channel access control for transmission of video information over wireless channels A method and system for channel access control for transmission of uncompressed video information over wireless channels. A contention-free period (CFP) for high-rate and low-rate channels is divided into schedules in which one or multiple periodical channel time bl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179870 | Method and apparatus for securing devices in a network An access point receives a notification (or advertisement) from a device, which lacks a service. The access point adds the service to the notification, and forwards the notification to other devices on the network. Upon receiving from a control point a request to us... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179872 | Wireless router system and method A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality of host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175066 | Apparatus and method for providing packet data service using heterogeneous networks An apparatus and method for providing a packet data service by using a plurality of heterogeneous networks is provided. The apparatus includes: a controller for allocating a representative IP address to the terminal and for binding sub-IP address, which are allocate... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175067 | Wireless communication apparatus and control method therefor When a wireless communication network is built in an ad hoc mode, it is possible to appropriately build the wireless communication network regardless of start timings of wireless communication functions of image capturing apparatuses. In order to achieve the object,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169984 | Communication system, radio lan base station control device, and radio lan base station device There are provided a communication system, a radio LAN base station control device, and a radio LAN base station device capable of increasing the control reliability and improving communication stability and safety between the radio LAN base station control device a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169982 | Method and apparatus for creating a fingerprint for a wireless network The disclosure is directed to a wireless communication device and method for using the device. The wireless communications device may be used by accessing information in memory, the information relating to a first communications network. The information, along with ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169989 | Access point multi-level transmission power control based on the exchange of characteristics A first plurality of characteristics are received from a first client device relating to transmissions received by the first client device from both an access point and a second client device. A second plurality of characteristics are received from the second client... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169988 | Wireless local area network A wireless network includes a base transceiver station configured to transmit signals over a wireless connection to a plurality of terminals connected to the local area network and receive signals over a wireless connection from a plurality of terminals. The new ter... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169986 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a mobile communication system are provided, in which a System Frame Number (SFN) is transmitted as system information, and other system information, which excludes the SFN, is transmitted us... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169987 | Managed access point protocol Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating deployment and configuration of managed access points in hierarchical wireless network systems. An embodiment of the invention facilitates deployment and configuration of conventional, substantially autonomous access poi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169985 | Coordinated beacon period (BP) merging for distributed wireless networks The application describes a method to merge two wireless networks in which each terminal gets a beacon slot within the beacon period. In order to merge two networks, the beacon slots have to be time-coordinated such that the beacon slots of the first network are com... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169983 | Transcoder architecture for land mobile radio systems A transcoder architecture and method for transcoding in land mobile radio (LMR) systems are provided. The LMR system includes a first communication site configured to communicate using a first LMR communication protocol and a second communication site configured to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169990 | Packetized audio data operations in a wireless local area network device A wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiving integrated circuit includes a WLAN interface, an input buffer, an input buffer controller, and a processor. The WLAN transceiving integrated circuit may also include an output buffer, an output buffer controller, a t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165101 | Automatic detection of hidden networks It is determined whether a mobile user device is within transmission range of one or hidden networks. A list of known networks may be accessed, the list including broadcast and hidden networks. For the hidden networks, the network connection component may instruct a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165102 | Apparatus and method for integrating short-range wireless personal area networks for a wireless local area network infrastructure A network system comprises a first logic block providing a link to a first network via an access point of a WLAN and a second logic block communicating with a node of a second network (such as a WPAN) and configured to provide a link between the node and the first n... | 04/24/2012 |
| RE43322 | Method for minimizing time critical transmit processing for a personal computer implementation of a wireless local area network adapter A personal computer's (PC) microprocessor is used to provide both the physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) processing functions required to implement a wireless local area network (WLAN) adapter. This technique uses the microprocessor within the perso... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160039 | Communications methods and apparatus for use in communicating with access routers and/or other devices acting as communications peers Methods and apparatus for performing peer to peer communications with access routers and non-access router peer devices are described. An access terminal generates a channel estimate estimating the channel between the access terminal and an access router. For at lea... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160037 | System and method for reinforcing wireless communication capability within wireless network group A method and system is provided to reinforce wireless communication capabilities between multiple network nodes of an wireless network group. The method and system first detects a wireless transmission capability between a first network node and a second network nod... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160040 | Scheduling of measurement occasions of a mobile terminal In a method of downlink operation in a communication system having a network controller, a base station and a terminal, one communication channel is scheduled by the base station; and one communication channel is scheduled by the network controller. The terminal lis... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160041 | Radio communication terminal and radio communication system A radio communication terminal and a radio communication system which can avoid an obstacle that is caused by a malicious wormhole while using a harmless wormhole. There are provided: a radio communication terminal in which a relay route about a certain node is stor... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160035 | Method and system for mobile network nodes in heterogeneous networks The invention relates to a method and a system for creating an optimized communications link (SC/DC) between at least two mobile network nodes (10, 11), whereby corresponding interface management modules (40, 41) create lookup tables (401, 411) ... | 04/17/2012 |
