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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059624 | Wireless network system and method of transmitting or receiving data over wireless network A wireless network system and a method of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network capable of limiting transmission or reception of request packets by stations existing on the wireless network, where directional communication is performed in a high-fre... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8009651 | Neighbouring device aiding in receiving sets of data According to one embodiment, a first wireless communication device may receive a data file via a first wireless network interface, determine if the whole file has been properly received, receive at least the data of the file that have not been properly received via ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7738436 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication control apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method Information, which has a frame structure and is to be transmitted from a line control apparatus (101) through a control channel to a mobile transmitting/receiving apparatus (102), includes function channel identifying information indicative of the type... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7630354 | Optimized packet-resource management A system and method for optimizing the use of packet-resources by releasing a hanging packet-data connection when a Mobile Station (MS) performs a power-down while involved in a dormant packet-data session. A Base Station Controller (BSC) sends a message to a Mobile... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7545788 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for modifying bandwidth and/or quality of service in a core network Bandwidth and/or Quality of Service (QoS) may be modified in a Regional/Access Network (RAN) that includes a core network, the RAN facilitating differentiated end-to-end data transport between an enterprise, a Network Service Provider (NSP), and/or an Application Se... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7424307 | Loss of page synchronization Systems and methods for maintaining data stream synchronization are provided. A system comprises one or more radio head interface modules and a call processing software module each adapted to communicate with each other. The call processing software module performs ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7406330 | Method and system for extending IP PBX services to cellular wireless communication devices An IP PBX system that serves enterprise telephones via a landline IP network connection is be expanded to serve cellular wireless communication devices (WCD) via a cellular wireless carrier's radio access network (RAN). Calls to and from the cellular WCD are connect... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7383036 | Home network system A home network system is disclosed, which includes a remote control server for controlling transmitting/receiving data at a long distance by WEB server connected to an external PC or WAP server connected to a communication terminal and by home network; an internal P... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369530 | Apparatus and method for interfacing packet-based phone services with emergency call centers A gateway is provided for interfacing packet-based phone services with controllers of emergency call centers. For each type of electronic medium to be interfaced, the gateway comprises a specific I/O interface and a specific module such as a protocol stack. The gate... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363371 | Traffic flow management in a communications network Admission of rapidly varying traffic flows to a communications network is controlled by sampling the traffic flows each at an ingress, and sampling an aggregate flow of said flows at some or all of the resources used by the aggregate flow. From this sampling, a mean... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359360 | Communication system supporting wireless communication of packet data and method and arrangement relating thereto A communication system supporting communication of packet data. It comprises a core network, which includes a number of packet data support nodes, a number of gateway nodes for communication with external packet data networks, and a number of radio networks. Each ra... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356603 | Integrated system of loads with multiple public awareness functions A signaling system may include two subsystems that share a common wiring backbone and provide public awareness functions. The two subsystems may be a public address system and a master/slave clock system. Remote rooms at the tail end of the wiring backbone include a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336639 | Method and system for providing service request notifications related to a communications network A trunk-group request tool automates the process of manually receiving and analyzing trunk-group circuits pertaining to switch circuits located within a switch facility of a communications network. An embodiment of the computer-implemented method includes receiving ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330462 | Managing wireless packet service resources In a packet switch for communicating packet switched data to and from a plurality of wireless mobile stations, a method and apparatus for automatically releasing resources tied up for communicating with dormant mobile stations. If the station has been dormant for a ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330450 | Wireless network detection device A device for determining network parameters may include one or more antennae and a processor. For example, the device may include multiple antennae so that direction information for one or more wireless network sources may be determined. Network parameters may inclu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327712 | Selection system, its selection method for voice channels, and switchboard for use therein A voice channel selection system for use in VoIP communication includes a plurality of VoIP trunk packages and a switchboard for bidirectional connection to the Internet via this plurality of VoIP trunk packages. The switchboard is provided with a call control unit.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327704 | Method and apparatus for facilitating dormant mode, packet data mobile handoffs To address the need for a method and apparatus to more efficiently facilitate dormant mode, packet data mobile handoffs, the present invention provides more efficient messaging between the BS and MSC involved in the handoff. Prior art messaging that provides for the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324474 | Methods and apparatus for Network Initiated Data Services Techniques are provided for conserving network resources in a network that initiates data services by communicating push data to a dormant terminal. Selected network resources associated with the dormant terminal are released, and maintained information for reaching... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317700 | Method and apparatus for cell-specific HSDPA parameter configuration and reconfiguration A method by which resources of a cell under the supervision of a controlling radio network controller (CRNC) are reserved for providing high speed downlink packet access via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) having one or more corresponding physical cha... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304980 | Method of transmitting transparent data Transparent data transmission service is kept optimal in the quality provided. A transmission quality monitor section, provided in a base-band signal processing circuit of each apparatus, monitors an error in reception data and an response, to the data transmitted, ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302251 | Channel request and contention resolution apparatus and method A wireless network includes wireless access systems for communicating with mobile stations. At least one of the wireless access systems is capable of communicating with multiple types of mobile stations. One type of mobile station communicates according to the Enhan... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286475 | GPRS system and in-zone node apparatus, and bearer setting method used therefor A GPRS system is provided which is capable of realizing speed-up of PDP context establishment and reduction of call connection time. At the time of the PDP context establishment, it is made possible to carry out bearer setting between an MS and an SGSN and bearer se... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286507 | Method and system for dynamically routing between a radio access network and distributed antenna system remote antenna units An improved mechanism for routing communication traffic between a radio access network and distributed antenna system (DAS) remote antenna units. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a DAS hub and each DAS antenna unit served by the DAS hub w... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286482 | Decentralized SLS monitoring in a differentiated service environment A decentralized SLS monitoring structure (30) includes a measurement preparation and minimization module (32), measurement launching coordination module (34), measurement scheduler module (36) and measurement initialization module (38 | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283495 | Apparatus and method for managing dormant state in a wireless packet data system A wireless packet data system efficiently manages a location of a packet call in a radio environment. A mobile station transmits a location registration message to a target BSC when moving to the target BSC adjacent to a source BSC. Upon receipt of the location regi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7257174 | Method for processing a digital input signal of a channel equalizer A baseband digital signal block is processed at an output of a matched filter and at an input of a channel equalizer. This signal is fed to a whitening filter estimated for the block by taking into account interfering signals in the frequency band of the useful sign... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242672 | System and method for formatting voice data in a mobile telecommunication system A method and system to boost error recovery and synchronous tracking abilities is disclosed, using fixed code rate rules and synchronous data for connecting a voice call between mobile terminals. The system and method process packet data received from a BTS, expand ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239632 | Method and apparatus for converging local area and wide area wireless data networks A converged network accessible by wireless client devices includes a wide area wireless network, a local area wireless network, and a gateway linked to the wide area and local area wireless networks for integrating access to the networks by the wireless client devic... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231211 | Apparatus and method for monitoring a trunked radio communications system The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring a trunked radio communications system by using some type of radio scanning receiver that is not designed for that purpose. In addition, the invention provides a method for automatically determining... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228130 | Method for preventing an unauthorized device from operating in an 800 MHz trunked radio communications system using channels 319 to 0 A receiving device in a trunked radio communications system determines a transmit frequency, wherein the transmit frequency is calculated by subtracting a voice channel number from 319, multiplying by a channel spacing and adding a base frequency to yield the transm... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224938 | Method of communicating with a network device A method is provided for operating a network device (340) in a wireless network (100). This method includes: joining the wireless network; transmitting a probe command (600) after joining the wireless network, the probe command being addressed t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221670 | Apparatus and method for supplying information concerning packet data to a base station An A.S0001/IS-2001 based Access Network for packet data has a base station (BS), a packet control function (PCF), and a packet data serving node (PDSN). If a BS/PCF connection fails to be achieved, this is communicated from the PDSN to the PCF by a message that iden... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218626 | System and method for reducing information communicated between universal mobile telecommunication system multimedia capable units Method and Apparatus for making more efficient use of air link resources and network capacity in a mobile telecommunications system in which unauthorized and/or unsupported media types transmitted in a session initialization protocol (SIP) message sent from one equi... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209460 | Apparatus and method for assigning subcarrier in OFDMA communication system A subcarrier assignment apparatus and a subcarrier assignment method, in which each of a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) constituting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system provides services in the capacity of a serving BS to ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209462 | Apparatus and method for supporting common channel packet data service in a CDMA2000 RAN An apparatus and method for supporting common channel packet data (CCPD) services in a cdma2000 random access network without using a traffic channel. A CCPD device requests CCPD service from the network by sending an Origination message to the BS with the SDB_DESIR... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200126 | Method and system for serving packet dormant handoff in mobile communication system A method for serving a packet dormant handoff is disclosed, including determining with a mobile switching center whether a mobile station performs a dormant handoff into an area of a destination base station controller/packet controller function (BSC/PCF) and provid... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188293 | RLP frame receiving method An RLP (Radio Link Protocol) frame receiving method transmits an RLP frame entirely and quickly in consideration of a radio environment in a mobile communication system. The method discriminates an error frame from the received RLP frame, measures a degree of loss o... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180875 | System and method for performing macro-diversity selection and distribution of routes for routing data packets in Ad-Hoc networks A communications network which is capable of effectively and efficiently handling fading between mobile wireless user terminals of a packet-switched network with minimal overhead and packet loss, and a method for using the same. The communications network employs an... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7155236 | Scheduled and autonomous transmission and acknowledgement Techniques for efficient signaling to and from a plurality of mobile stations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a subset of mobile stations may be allocated a portion of the shared resource with one or more individual access grants, another subset may be allocated a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139829 | Identification of unused resources in a packet data network A packet data service node is formed to establish an “always on” connection with a mobile terminal by way of a packet control function card or device with the ability to determine when a mobile terminal no longer requires a previously established point-to-point ... | 11/21/2006 |
