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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184610 | Method for adaptive beaconing A method of adaptive beaconing includes operating a node within an ad hoc wireless communication network to calculate a probability P for an interval of time I; transmit a beacon when a uniformly distributed random number is less than the probability P; and wait for... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8149813 | Wireless device having fast-receive mode for measuring received signal strength (RSSI) for higher time division multiple access (TDMA) multislot classes A wireless communications device having a fast-receive mode for measuring received signal strength indication (RSSI) enables the device to handle higher time division multiple access (TDMA) multislot classes without requiring that the device include either a second ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149814 | 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... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144681 | Wireless communication method and apparatus In a wireless communication method in which a wireless communication apparatus having radio units 1 and 2 and central processing units 11 and 12 communicates wirelessly with a base station, the radio units 1 and 2 receive no... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144682 | Method and apparatus for enhancing signal-to-noise ratio of position location measurements A method and apparatus for generating and use of a position location reference signal that allows a receiver to receive position location signals from relatively weak signal generators when in the presence of a strong signal source. The position location reference s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144680 | Contention-based communications Methods and apparatus are presented for conducting communications using a shared communication medium. A message is sent over the shared communication medium. The shared communication medium is organized to include an allocation of node identification signal space a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130742 | Communication protocol for a wireless device and a game console An accessory is provided wireless connectivity with a game console by reconfiguring an earlier transport format that was used to solely transport voice data packets. The reconfiguration incorporates the use of a hybrid sub-frame, wherein voice data packets are repla... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8102834 | Method for reporting and managing wireless resources in TDM system A method for reporting and managing wireless resources in TDM system comprises the step of reporting the wireless resources comprises a RNC obtaining the resource capacity information of each of the carrier frequency in a cell covered by a base station through the r... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094643 | Dynamic power management for time division multiplexing devices A method of dynamic power management in a time division multiple access (TDMA) system. The method comprising comparing each of a plurality of streams; grouping each of the plurality of streams into a plurality of powergroups, wherein each of the plurality of powergr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077694 | Intelligent scheduling in a time division duplexing system to mitigate near/far interference scenarios A wireless communication system (100), method, and site controller (112) schedule at least one of transmission and reception of wireless data by at least one wireless communication device. A distance is determined between at least one wireless communic... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068476 | Method for allocating transmission period in a wireless communication system A method is provided for efficiently allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period provided to each station (STA) and a minimum amount of an uplink period allocated to each STA... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068477 | Wireless base station and mobile station A disclosed wireless base station forms a cell adjacent to an adjacent cell formed by an adjacent wireless base station in a mobile communication system. A notification unit notifies time difference information into the cell formed by the wireless base station itsel... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064426 | Method and system for transmitting a broadcast/multicast service The present application discloses a method and system for transmitting a Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS), which is used for solving the problem that macro cell coverage of the MBMS and macro diversity combining of multi-cells cannot be implemented efficiently bas... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054819 | System and method for setting a data rate in TDMA communications A mobile ad-hoc network includes a plurality of N mobile nodes and wireless communication links connecting the mobile nodes, which each include a communications device for transmitting and routing data packets wirelessly to other mobile nodes via the wireless commun... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050246 | Range extension for time division duplex systems A method of scheduling time division duplex frames at a base station in a time division duplex system is provided. The method includes determining if the round-trip propagation delay between the base station and a communicatively coupled subscriber station is greate... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036202 | Physical layer transceiver with integrated time synchronization Disclosed, inter alia, is a Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY) with integrated time synchronization, such as, but not limited to, IEEE 1588 Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems. The PHY includes circuitr... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018913 | Method and system for sharing components in a time division multiplex wireless system A method and system for sharing components in a time division multiplex wireless system is provided. The method may include configuring at least one component of a software programmable radio, such as a PLL, to enable communication of data using, for example, a GSM ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018914 | Radio communication device, demodulation method, and frequency deflection correction circuit A demodulation section 13 receives a TDMA-TDD based phase-modulated burst signal of mobile communications and demodulates the burst signal by a synchronous detection system (or a quasi-synchronous detection system). The demodulation section 13 includes... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005063 | Uplink channel receiving and transmitting apparatuses and methods A receiving apparatus receives control, pilot and data channels in an uplink. The apparatus includes a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the pilot channel in an antenna gain pattern of a multi-beam having multiple fixed directional beams with respectively di... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7961703 | System and method for maintaining packet protocol context A system and method for maintaining a packet protocol context, such as a PDP (Packet Data Protocol) context, is provided. A mobile device communicates over a packet protocol context. If there has been no data activity over the packet protocol context for a timeout d... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961702 | Distributed bandwidth allocation and transmission coordination method for quality of service provision in wireless ad hoc networks Methods, devices, systems, and computer programs are provided that allow for optimally allocating bandwidth in an ad hoc, wireless network configured to support at least one guaranteed feasible flow allocation. According to some of these methods, devices, systems, Q... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944905 | Method for dynamically identifying locations of mobile nodes in a time division multiple access based ad hoc communication network Disclosed is a method for dynamically identifying locations of a plurality of mobile nodes in a time division multiple access (TDMA) based ad hoc communication network, wherein one or more mobile nodes are being moved in and out of a predefined region. The method co... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7920540 | Method and system for reliable broadcast or multicast communication in wireless networks A method and system for communicating information over a wireless channel in a communication system including a coordinator and receivers, involves controlling channel access by dividing a contention-free period (CFP) into one or more schedules, wherein each schedul... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916711 | Systems and methods for saving power in a digital broadcast receiver Systems and methods for conserving power in a receiver device are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a receiver device comprises a tuner configured to receive a transmitted signal, at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital signal processing hard... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903630 | Data transmission system, data transmission method, and base station used therein A base station used in a packet transmission system in which shared user data to be selectively received by a user are transmitted using a shared data channel from one or more base stations to one or more mobile stations is provided. The base station includes means ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899023 | Participants network A method for communication between a number of participants in a region, the number of participants being unlimited, the method comprising the steps: (a) allocating a unique identity to each participant; (b) allocating an order of priority for transmission by the pa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894416 | System and method for communicating in a time division multiple access (TDMA) mesh network having minimized end-to-end latency A system and method for communicating includes a plurality of wireless nodes forming a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mesh network. Each wireless node includes a transmitter and receiver and is operative for transmitting data packets across the TDMA mesh netwo... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885246 | Communication apparatus enabling coexistence of systems A frequency band is divided into N subchannels. Sub-channels are first allocated for a power line communication system having a higher priority, such as public communication or the like. Sub-channels for a power line communication system having a relatively low prio... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7869417 | Multiplexing and feedback support for wireless communication systems A control scheme using packet headers allows GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) systems to increase spectral efficiency through multiplexing techniques, such as superposition coding, multi-user packet transmission, joint detection, and/or joint decoding. A fast f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860074 | Method and apparatus for allocating communication resources In a communication system (10) having a pool of communication resources (11), such resources are preferentially allocated amongst a plurality of communication services (such as, for example, voice services, single-slot packet data services, and multi-s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860075 | Transmission device and transmission method In the communication system, a transmission signal based on the first radio access scheme is generated, and in the communication system a transmission signal based on the second radio access scheme different from the first radio access scheme is generated. A usage s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7808965 | Medium access control method and system A medium access control method is provided in which a control station transmits one specific frame to terminal stations, thereby arranging a schedule of a data transmission time of the control station and each of the terminal stations and allowing a time zone unused... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804813 | Radio communication method, radio communication terminal and radio LAN system The present invention discloses a radio communication method or the like, which contributes to the improvement of data transmission efficiency in a radio communication based on TDMA system (in particular, radio communication in accordance with IEEE Std. 802.11) by p... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801105 | Scheduling radio resources for symmetric service data connections Radio channel resources are allocated in a radio communications system based on whether a requested data communication requested is associated with a symmetric service or an asymmetric service. If the data communication is associated with a symmetric service, a symm... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792090 | Determining an inter-slot power level Methods for determining an inter-slot power level are disclosed. In one example embodiment, the inter-slot is positioned between first and second timeslots capable of transmitting modulated signals. A first timeslot power level and a second timeslot power level are ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792089 | System and method for wireless remote control of locomotives A system and method for remotely controlling an increased number of subsystems having an onboard locomotive control unit (LCU) and two associated operator control units (OCUs) on a single wireless channel. A time slot is assigned to each subsystem for making two-way... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7782832 | Use of group poll scheduling for broadband communication systems A group poll mechanism (GPM) that schedules upstream bandwidth for cable modems by pointing a request opportunity normally reserved for a single service flow to more than one service flow. Essentially, instead of using the seldom-used poll requests one per service f... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782831 | System and method for dynamically defining a TDMA management cycle for a wireless network A method for dynamically implementing a TDMA management cycle for a wireless network is described. The method includes communicating between nodes in the wireless network using a time division multiple access structure, the time division multiple access structure in... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773575 | System and method for communicating using a plurality of TDMA mesh networks having efficient bandwidth use In accordance with a non-limiting example of the present invention, a communications system includes a plurality of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mesh networks, each comprising a plurality of wireless nodes, each having a transmitter and receiver that communi... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773576 | Slotted Aloha congestion control A slotted Aloha communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The system may include a hub and a plurality of RCSTs. According to one embodiment, congestion control may occur at the RCST based in part on the number of segments receiv... | 08/10/2010 |
