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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446892 | Channel structures for a quasi-orthogonal multiple-access communication system A channel structure has at least two channel sets. Each channel set contains multiple channels and is associated with a specific mapping of the channels to the system resources available for data transmission. Each channel set may be defined based on a channel tree ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8432884 | System and method for increased bandwidth efficiency within microwave backhaul of a telecommunication system An apparatus for transmitting information in a wireless communication system includes a first interface for receiving a plurality of input data streams. Signal processing circuitry transmits and receives the plurality of input data streams on at least one frequency.... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8432883 | Base station apparatus and communication control method A base station apparatus capable of communicating with user equipment terminals using an uplink shared channel includes a selection unit configured to select a user equipment terminal to which the base station apparatus allocates the shared channel among the user eq... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428040 | Reception apparatus and reception method for setting a format per divided band A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section (108) detects space multiplexing tra... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8422478 | Radio transmission device To obtain maximum throughput in accordance with characteristics of a propagation path, a radio transmission device having a plurality of transmitting antennas (18a, 18b) for transmitting a transmission signal in units of sub-carriers by p... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8422477 | Methods and apparatus for RF channel switching in a multi-frequency network Methods and apparatus for RF channel switching in a multi-frequency network. In an aspect, a method includes identifying a local area operations infrastructure (LOI) in the multi-frequency network, generating a channel description message that associates at least on... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8416758 | Reconfigurable radio frequency circuits and methods of receiving A reconfigurable radio frequency circuit is configurable to a first mode when first and second radio frequency signals are within a first frequency band, and to a second mode for use when the first but not the second signal is in the first band. A first signal divid... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8416757 | Radio transmission device To obtain maximum throughput in accordance with characteristics of a propagation path, a radio transmission device having a plurality of transmitting antennas (18a, 18b) for transmitting a transmission signal in units of sub-carriers by p... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8400996 | Communication method, and transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus using that communication method A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of antennas and a frame configurator that selects, in a first unit time either a first transmitting method which transmits a modulated signal from at least one of the plurality of antennas, or a second transmitting metho... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8379618 | Precoded data receiver Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379617 | Communication system, communication device, wired communication device, and communication method A communication system includes a wired communication device and a communication device that can communicate with a wireless communication device and the wired communication device. The communication device includes a clock output unit and a modulator. The wired com... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8379616 | Bit calculation method and apparatus for PDSCH transmission Provided is a bit calculation method, which accurately and easily calculates how many bits are transmitted by codeword per PDSCH in advance before a modulator performs modulation by TTI unit on a PCH or a DL-SCH transferred by a TrCH encoder, in a base-station modul... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8374162 | Transmission device and transmission method A disclosed transmission device includes a frequency scheduling unit configured to allocate, to each user, either frequency blocks that are consecutive frequency subcarrier blocks obtained by dividing a system bandwidth or distributed frequency blocks that are frequ... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8374161 | Method and apparatus for sending data and control information in a wireless communication system Techniques for sending control information in a communication system are described. In an aspect, control information may be sent in a first frequency location (e.g., a first set of subcarriers) if data is not being sent and in a second frequency location (e.g., a s... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8369299 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing CDM pilot and FDM data Techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may send data for control information in a resource block with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and may send pilot in the resource b... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8363633 | Method of transmitting data in multiple antenna system A method of transmitting data in a multiple antenna system includes transmitting first data through a first pilot pattern zone in which pilots are arranged in a specific pilot pattern in a permutation zone having at least one tile comprising a plurality of orthogona... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8345655 | Techniques for improving control channel acquisition in a wireless communication system A technique of operating a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations, which include a first subscriber station and a second subscriber station, with respect to a serving base station. Respective control ... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8340069 | Method, base station, UE, and system for sending and receiving PDCCH signaling A method, a base station, a User Equipment (UE) and a system for sending and receiving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling are disclosed. The method for sending PDCCH signaling includes the following steps: the base station determines locations of a ... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8335202 | Sending pilots on secondary channels for improved acquisition and handoff in cellular communication Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enhancing acquisition and handoff in a wireless network deployment by leveraging primary pilots and secondary pilots. The deployment can support more than one frequency band for operation, yet a mobile device c... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8331341 | Base station for transmitting a synchronization signal A base station for transmitting a synchronization signal on a synchronization channel with a system bandwidth which is less than the maximum system bandwidth in a radio communication system supporting multiple system bandwidths includes a multiplexing unit configure... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8325701 | Radio communication system and radio communication method A base station of a radio communication system emits a radio wave having the same frequency by time division toward a plurality of specific areas from a plurality of antenna elements by using a multiple-beam antenna to form a plurality of spot beams, and transmits b... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8320353 | Method and system for estimating adaptive combined channel in CDMA system based on time division duplex system Disclosed is a method and system for estimating an adaptive joint channel in a CDMA system based on TDD. The method includes the steps of a) receiving activity information of a mobile terminal; b) parsing the activity information, and transmitting a midamble sequenc... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8320352 | Robust transmission scheme for wireless networks Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Dependin... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8320354 | Robust transmission scheme for wireless networks Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Dependin... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8315239 | Apparatus and method for allocating resource in broadband wireless communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for allocating radio resources in a broadband wireless communication system by adaptively grouping the radio resources. In the method, the amount of resources necessary for a transmission of data to a user terminal and the amount ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8311025 | Method, data structure and computer system for packing a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) frame A method of packing a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) frame, characterised in that the method comprises the steps of: creating a matrix of substantially the same number of rows and columns as the WiMAX frame; mapping a first control message t... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8306009 | Method of selecting suitable frequency bands for data transmission between a network node and a user equipment within a mobile communications network A method of selecting suitable frequency bands for data transmission between a network node and a user equipment within a mobile communications network. A method selects suitable frequency bands for data transmission between a network node and user equipment within ... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8295261 | Method for detecting hidden nodes in cognitive radio networks The invention and method provides a concise model for signaling over control channel of cognitive radio. The model is analyzed and simulated for optimum parameters of wireless network. The optimized network parameters facilitate improvement of channel usage for cogn... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8279847 | Method and apparatus for exchanging information with a base station A method for exchanging information with a base station includes: communicating with the base station using electromagnetic waves with a first frequency; detecting a first connection request carried in the first electromagnetic; receiving the first connection reques... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8265055 | Method and apparatus for transmitting signals for multiple input multiple output wireless communication system A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but ac... | 09/11/2012 |
| RE43627 | Apparatus and method for multiplexing packets for broadcast services in a mobile communication system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing An apparatus and method for multiplexing packets for broadcast services in a mobile communication system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The OFDM system has a transmission structure in which one slot includes at least two symbols, and eac... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8254360 | OFDMA control channel interlacing Apparatus and methods for interlacing communications in random access control channels of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless communication system are described. A wireless communication device communicating over distinct OFDMA control ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8254361 | Method and apparatus for transmitting signals for multiple input multiple output wireless communication system A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but ac... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8249045 | Communication control apparatus and method When it is judged that the size of a band of a wireless IP network (10A) is insufficient for transferring IP packets within a predetermined period of time, a band calculating unit (107C) calculates a band of a wireless IP network (10B) that enab... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249042 | Wireless mesh network Method and apparatus for providing a wireless mesh network and network node are described. More particularly, a network having network node neighborhoods is described. A node comprises a multi-sectored antenna and a transceiver controller. Nodes are configured for i... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249046 | Interference management with MIMO in a peer-to-peer network Aspects relate to interference management in a multiple-input-multiple-output peer-to-peer network utilizing connection scheduling. When channel side information is available at both transmitter and receiver, both devices determine transmit/receiver beamforming vect... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249044 | Notification information generating apparatus, communication apparatus, notification information generating method and program To generate notification information for improving accuracy of channel quality information reconstructed based on a difference in notifying using the difference in channel quality information between channels. A notification information generating apparatus 400 | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249043 | Method of data transmission in a multi-carrier based transmission system and device implementing the method The invention concerns multi-carrier based digital telecommunication systems where the channel is used to transport several data streams according to the frequency division multiple access scheme. The proposed method concerns a mapping of data on physical res... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8249047 | Method of transmitting control signal in wireless communication system A method of transmitting a control signal in a wireless communication system includes receiving data or a control signal, and transmitting a feedback signal through a control channel in response to the data or the control signal, wherein the control channel comprise... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8233467 | Method of ratio data emission, emitter and receiver using the method Coding and decoding schemes useful in the context of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) or MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) communications especially used in conjunction of OFDM-like transmission schemes. A space frequency block code (SFBC) is based on the sim... | 07/31/2012 |
