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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160048 | Method for accessing hybrid network, and gateway apparatus, wireless terminal and communication system thereof A method for accessing a hybrid network including a wide area network and a distributed network, a gateway apparatus, a wireless terminal and a gateway communication system are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of the wireless terminal which is an access ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8139553 | Methods and apparatuses for link management in a scatternet An embodiment of a method for link management in a scatternet, performed by a wireless communication device, is provided. The wireless communication device simultaneously establishes a synchronization link in a first piconet, and an asynchronization link in a second... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134993 | Method and apparatus for polling transmission status in a wireless communication system A method for polling transmission status in a wireless communications system includes determining whether a buffer of a transmitter contains at least a packet that has been transmitted, has not been discarded, and has not yet been acknowledged when there is no packe... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8094642 | Polling method and vehicle search method in digital radio communication system The present invention provides a polling method in a radio digital communication system making it possible to shorten time required for polling without causing increase in an error rate and to efficiently manage and administrate communications. In a digital radio co... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089946 | Bandwidth efficient wireless network modem A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multiuser interference and noise is disclosed. The modem design provides for compatibility with existing network hardware and protocols so that new efficient modems may be added to ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8036201 | Voice channel control of wireless packet data communications A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a tar... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031689 | Method and related apparatus for handling re-establishment of radio link control entity in a wireless communications system A method for handling re-establishment of a radio link control entity having a transmitting side and a receiving side in a wireless communications system includes storing a plurality of control protocol data units, and reserving a poll super field in the plurality o... | 10/04/2011 |
| RE42599 | Method of addressing messages and communications system A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to attempt to identify individual ones of the multiple wireless identificat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978676 | Radio relay apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, method, and recording medium for performing radio communication based on beacon A radio relay apparatus to periodically transmit a beacon to a radio terminal apparatus, comprises: a control section for generating a beacon including group identification information indicating a group to which a radio terminal apparatus of a reception object of t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974259 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961701 | Method and system for event polling A method and system for event polling have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a session request from a client device. A session key is provided to the client device in response to the session request. A ses... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953063 | System and method for suppressing silence in voice traffic over a wireless communication medium A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by not transmitting any data during the silence periods and playing out background noi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7924805 | Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication control program A communication apparatus having a generating which generates a single physical frame for transmission and reception. The physical frame includes a first Quality of Service (QoS) data frame, a second Quality of Service (QoS) data frame, and a transmission request fo... | 04/12/2011 |
| RE42254 | Method of addressing messages and communications system A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to attempt to identify individual ones of the multiple wireless identificat... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912032 | System and method for communicating within a wireless communication network A system and method for providing a polling scheme to improve medium access control (MAC) in a multihop wireless communication network (100) comprising nodes (102) and access points (106). When an access point (106) is the source of data ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7839836 | Arranging SDMA poll groups by response length A base station may organize poll groups into groups having similar predicted durations of subsequent responses. In one embodiment predicted durations may be provided by the devices that are to be polled. In another embodiment the predicted durations may be based on ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839838 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839837 | Asynchronous speech data communication system and communication method therefor An asynchronous speech data communication system, which is capable of making a hands-free phone conversation at a high speed without causing annoyance in a vehicle, and a communication method therefor are provided. A vehicle-mounted hands-free system includes a spee... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817614 | Method and apparatus for setting, transmitting and receiving data for virtual carrier sensing in wireless network communication Methods and apparatuses for setting, transmitting, and receiving virtual carrier sensing information in wireless network communications are provided. A receiving station in a wireless communications network receives a frame transmitted according to various modulatio... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813331 | Apparatus, system, and method for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing failover in a polling adapter without support from an application server. A priority list is stored as part of an adapter configuration that specifies the server names that will participate in a group c... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7787435 | Method and system for polling mobile stations in a wireless network A method of wireless communication is provided. The method comprises adaptively polling a plurality of subscriber stations to provide channel quality indications for a plurality of channels associated with at least a portion of an orthogonal frequency division multi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782830 | Extended range wireless packetized data communication system A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a ‘master’ data-reception site from a ‘slave’ data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773574 | Scheduling wireless communication among delay-sensitive and delay-insensitive terminals A scheduling method includes classifying, by a PC, terminals into delay-sensitive terminals and delay-insensitive terminals according to their traffic types; setting an initial value and a maximum value of a poll failure counter of each of the delay-sensitive termin... | 08/10/2010 |
| RE41471 | Method of Addressing Messages and Communications System A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to attempt to identify individual ones of the multiple wireless identificat... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7729331 | Home terminal apparatus and communication system An Internet terminal comprising: a communication unit that sends a local packet generated by a packet generation unit and receives a response local packet from a server apparatus; an encryption processing unit that encrypts the local packet to be sent out and decryp... | 06/01/2010 |
| RE41352 | Method of addressing messages and communications A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising utilizing a tree search method to attempt to identify individual ones of the multiple wireless identificat... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715359 | Method for realizing metering pulse in NGN A method for realizing metering pulses in Next Generation Network (NGN), which enables an MGC (media gateway controller) to cooperate with an MG (media gateway), so as to realize the metering pulse service. When it is necessary to initiate the charging, the MGC tran... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7693126 | Radio telecommunications system and method of operating the same with polling An apparatus or method for transmitting data blocks on a communications channel having a radio link between two stations including a user equipment comprises receiving first data blocks from the user equipment, and transmitting second data blocks to the user equipme... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7675896 | Communication apparatus and control method thereof The claimed invention is directed to a communication apparatus connectable to a plurality of networks, which comprises a setting unit that adjusts and setting, in accordance with a communication condition of each of the plurality of networks, a communication hold pe... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7656853 | Reducing power consumption of a wireless device The present invention provides a system and method for conserving power consumption of a wireless device such as a BLUETOOTH slave device. A master device polls a slave device in a polling period. The slave responds by transmitting a data packet. If there is an erro... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653041 | Method for power-efficient transmission supporting integrated services over wireless local area network This invention provides a method for power-efficient transmission supporting integrated service over WLAN. The said invention combines the polling-based and the contention-based mechanisms, named on-demand polling (ODP). In the ODP scheme, a voice station is in the ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7616621 | Efficient time-division multiplexed addressing protocol A method for operating in a network that includes one or more of the following: assigning a respective active member address to each of a plurality of first slave nodes participating in a piconet; receiving a request to join the piconet; determining that no more dif... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616620 | Method for suppressing silence in voice traffic over a wireless communication medium A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via wireless communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by not transmitting any data during the silence periods and playing out backg... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613161 | System for suppressing silence in voice traffic over a wireless communication medium A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via wireless communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by not transmitting any data during the silence periods and playing out backg... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7599346 | Bandwidth-efficient wireless network modem A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multi-user interference and noise comprising a multi-user detection module (115), a data formatting module (120), a control processor (125) and a demultiplexer ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7590100 | Method for packet polling in a WLAN A method (500) is provided for dynamic packet polling during a power save mode. The method can include polling (504) an access point (104) for packets at a first rate on at least one access category, determining (506) a polling time-out a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586892 | Computer method and apparatus for periodic scheduling with jitter-approximation tradeoff A method and apparatus of scheduling jobs each having respective (i) length of execution time and (ii) requested frequency of occurrence includes for each given job, allocation of a respective set of start times in a cycle in a manner that evenly spreads the given j... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7558243 | Enhanced polling method for preventing deadlock in a wireless communications system A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7548534 | Method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. In a... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545793 | Extended range wireless packetized data communication system A limited acknowledgement-based communication methodology increases the throughput efficiency of extended range, wireless packetized data transmissions to a ‘master’ data-reception site from a ‘slave’ data-sourcing site, geographically remote with respect to... | 06/09/2009 |
