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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189555 | Communications methods and apparatus for supporting communications with peers using multiple antenna patterns Methods and apparatus for communicating information, e.g., peer discovery information, to peer communications devices using multiple antenna patterns at different times are described. One exemplary method includes transmitting first peer discovery information during... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189554 | Method for transmitting and receiving data using beacon scheduling in wireless sensor network A method for generating a superframe structure by using a beacon scheduling within a wireless sensor network and transmitting data based on the generated superframe structure includes: defining, by each of a plurality of data transceivers in the network, a relation ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189553 | Method and system for encapsulating time division multiplex data into individual packets of a packet based network A method of encapsulating TDM data into individual data packets for transmission across a packet network includes delineating the TDM data into one or more signaling multiframes, wherein each signaling multiframe includes one period of a periodic signaling pattern. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175073 | System and method for adjusting power used in reception in a wireless packet network A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so in a manner that responds to events, such as receipt or other identification of different parameters that control how packets are sent and received. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175072 | Process for the generation of packets for at least one mobile receiver A first variant of the process includes receiving an encrypted stream representing a service, this stream comprising a data channel and an ECM channel; slicing the stream to send it in packets to a mobile receiver; extracting the control message channel of this stre... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160047 | Method and device for service time division multiplexing A method and device for service time division multiplexing as well as a method and a device for transmitting service are disclosed. The method for service time division multiplexing includes: selecting a part or all of radio frames in one time unit as specific radio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155102 | Channel access control There are provided measures for channel access control. Such measures may exemplarily include obtaining a contention window assignment including at least an assignment of a size of a contention window for contention-based channel access, accessing at least one logic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155101 | Method and arrangement for wireless communication of signals in a MR system A method and an arrangement for uni- or bidirectional wireless communication of signals or data especially in a reflective environment like a MR imaging system, between at least one first transmitter and/or receiver unit (501, 601, 701; T/R1) and at le... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149812 | Method and apparatus for retransmitting data in wireless LAN system using visible light communication A method for retransmitting data when data transmission/reception has failed in a wireless LAN system using visible light communication. A mobile node searches a received frame for a fast feedback slot allocated for retransmission information when momentary data tra... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134992 | Message-based coexistence interface between wireless devices A coexistence mechanism for arbitrating between performing operations associated with a first network device and performing operations associated with a second network device coupled to the first network device. The start time of a scheduled operation associated wit... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134991 | Method of and an apparatus for effecting a smooth transition between adjacent symbol bursts transmitted in different modulation formats A first sequence for a first digital symbol burst is selected to be transmitted, which first sequence comprises a set of end symbols with a first particular symbol pattern. A second sequence for a second digital symbol burst is also selected for transmission after t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125973 | Time shared rake fingers and path searcher A rake receiver having a rake receiver finger operated in a time multiplexed manner to perform the task a plurality of fingers, each of these fingers being a virtual finger allocated to a time slot in an operation cycle of the rake receiver finger, and wherein a buf... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121107 | Communication in dual protocol environments A radio transceiver comprising: a signal receiver for receiving signals in the form of bursts according to a first protocol; a transmitter for transmitting signals in the form of bursts according to a second protocol, the first and second protocols being such that s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111681 | Wireless data communication method for a base station using a common pilot channel and an individual pilot channel A wireless data-communication arrangements including a wireless terminal, located in a direction, receiving the pilot signal and determining a data rate according to reception quality of the pilot signal; the wireless terminal transmitting to a base station a signal... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111680 | Mobile object information sharing system In a system where mobile stations use one frequency to transmit/receive and share position information data, synchronization has been made in a shared time resulting from GPS and the mobile stations transmit the data at mutually different timings that are predetermi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098645 | Random access slot selection in a communications system A communications system (20) includes a resource controller (22) and a terminal (24) in communication with the resource controller (22). Periodically, the resource controller (22) sends a service announcement (46) that ident... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094641 | TD-SCDMA uplink processing A wireless device has a BRP-CRP interface that includes a dual-port frame memory having a first access port and a second access port in which data can be written to the dual-port frame memory through the first access port at the same time that data is read from the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085750 | Streaming video data to mobile devices The streaming of video data to mobile devices (101 to 103) is shown in which a support server (106) and an asset server (107, 108) are provided. The support server receives a first request (303) from a mobile device for a selected ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085751 | Broadcasting receiver and broadcast signal processing method A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitte... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077693 | Resource remapping and regrouping in a wireless communication system Methods and apparatus for remapping and regrouping transmission resources in a wireless communication system. First, a set of new permutation algorithms based on Galois field operation is proposed. Then the proposed algorithms and the known Pruned Bit Reversal Order... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072960 | Networking method of single frequency network in TD-SCDMA system A networking method of single frequency network in a TD-SCDMA system includes the steps of: (1) deciding a networking configuration scheme by a universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN), (2) based on the decided networking c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064425 | Method for assigning frequency spectrum bandwidth of an OFDM and OFDMA coexistence system The present invention relates to a method for assigning frequency spectrum bandwidth of an OFDM and OFDMA coexistence system, and the base station system combines uplink and downlink data containing OFDM sub-frames and OFDMA sub-frames in a time division fashion, as... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040868 | Communication system, communication method, mobile station and base station used for the same A communication system and method for measuring communication channel qualities of one or more partial bands of a communication band is provided. A mobile station represents measured communication channel qualities of the partial bands by relative value information ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036200 | Efficient polled frame exchange on a shared-communications channel A technique is disclosed for dealing with transmissions between telecommunications stations on a shared-communications channel that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages for doing so in the prior art. The present invention introduces transmission rules that all... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023489 | Burden sharing in satellite communications Systems and methods for burden sharing in satellite based communication systems are disclosed. One or more users in a satellite based communication system may experience signal degradation or signal fading that can occur for an extended period of time, such as when ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018911 | Method for requesting and reporting channel quality information in wireless portable internet system A method for requesting and reporting channel quality information (CQI) in a wireless portable Internet system is disclosed. Timing of a channel quality information request by a base station is determined, existence of an automatic repeat request acknowledgment (ARQ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018912 | System and method for a dynamic beacon period in a MAC distributed reservation protocol A system (400), device (401), and method are provided for decentralized medium access control comprising periodic beacon (600) transmissions of all active devices in beacon slots (204) (302) (303), grouping such beacon slots... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009658 | Method for sharing bandwidth using reduced duty cycle signals and media access control A method is provided for transmitting data. A first device generates a first signal having a first duty cycle, comprising a first gated-on portion and a first gated-off portion in a time slot; and a second device generates a second signal having second duty cycle, c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009657 | Medium time allocation and scheduling using iso-zone structured superframe for QoS provisioning in wireless networks Allocation of contiguous blocks of airtime for data or airtime transmission can lead to large maximum service intervals for an application stream. This may result in a large delay bound where large blocks of contiguous MAS blocks other applications from meeting thei... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005062 | Transmission using a plurality of protocols Included are embodiments for communicating data using a plurality of formats. At least one embodiment of a method includes transmitting a plurality of first format data frames with a predetermined time period between transmitted first format data frames and determin... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005061 | System and method of maintaining a connection with a first network while processing communications with a second network by a communication device The invention conducts a first activity to maintain or establish the first connection in a series of spaced, timed segments, such that the segments represent a timeframe of an original activity that would span a continuous period that would cause a transmission conf... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990942 | Wireless data communication method for a base station using a common pilot channel and an individual pilot channel Data transmission is performed using the most suitable data rate for the radiation pattern of an antenna. Using an individual pilot channel of a first slot, a base station transmits a pilot signal in a specified direction with a beam pattern having narrow directivit... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978675 | Extension mode for wireless LANs complying with short interframe space requirement A wireless device includes a transmitter that transmits packets including a header field and a data field and a coding module that selectively encodes data of the packets based on one of first and second signal processing modes. The header field of each of the packe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7961700 | Multi-carrier operation in data transmission systems Multi-carrier point-to-multi-point CDMA system implementation reduces hardware changes in legacy single-carrier systems. The number of common downlink channels, such as timing/synchronization and paging channels, is reduced by designating an anchor carrier for trans... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953062 | Enhanced channel interleaving for optimized data throughput In a transmission scheme wherein multi-slot packet transmissions to a remote station can be terminated by an acknowledgment signal from the remote station, code symbols can be efficiently packed over the multi-slot packet so that the remote station can easily decode... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948961 | Wireless proximity estimation A wireless content protection system includes a coordinator, a source device, and a sink device. The coordinator includes a scheduler. The source and sink devices each have a content protection manager. One of the content protection manager allocates and releases ba... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944904 | Systems and methods for managing timing functions in multiple timing protocols One embodiment of the present invention includes a system for managing timing functions associating with at least one timing protocol. The system comprises a controller configured to implement a plurality of functions at each of a respective plurality of scheduled t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929513 | Wireless local area network access points, end-point communication devices, and computer program products that generate security alerts based on characteristics of interfering signals and/or connection messages A wireless local area network access point (WAP) includes a transceiver, a controller, and a security unit. The transceiver communicates messages with an end-point communication device through a wireless air interface in a defined frequency band. The controller rece... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929512 | Performance management of cellular mobile packet data networks A method in a cellular mobile packet data network is provided composed of four main steps. These are capturing raw traffic traces over standardized interfaces of an operational cellular mobile data network, parsing through the traces in order to extract and correlat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924804 | Scheduling depending on quality of service and channel properties A method is described for scheduling a plurality of data flows to a plurality of shared channels in a wireless communication system transmitting data packets in time intervals of frames and applying adaptive modulation and coding. The method comprises the steps of d... | 04/12/2011 |
