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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175074 | Method and devices for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets A system and method for specifying the quality of service in a transmission of data packets between a service entity and a user equipment is provided. A plurality of service classes relating to the quality of service are preconfigured and a selected service class is... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43323 | Transmission of random access bursts with at least one message part The present invention proposes communication devices (1, 6) and a method for transmitting and receiving random access bursts in a random access channel of a digital telecommunication system. Thereby, a random access burst comprising a preamble part for acquir... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155103 | Support for retransmitting a transport block with a different number of layers than a previous transmission attempt A method of conveying transport block size (TBS) information includes determining TBS parameters for a wireless transmission of data between a first node and a second node based on a first number of transmission layers associated with the wireless transmission. The ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149815 | Communication system, a communication method, and a communication apparatus with clear to send signal frame features A communication system for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations is disclosed in which a first communication station for transmitting to other communication stations a Request To Send (RTS) signal for requesting a transmission u... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134994 | Method of scheduling on downlink and transmitting on uplink dedicated channels In the scheduling method of the present invention, scheduling grant messages for a user equipment are transmitted beginning in any time slot of a frame for a channel so long as the scheduling grant message does not exceed the frame. The scheduling grant message indi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125974 | Transmit emission control in a wireless transceiver Methods and apparatus for control of uplink resource allocation and undesirable transmit emissions from a wireless transceiver in a frequency division duplex (FDD) or hybrid frequency division duplex (H-FDD) wireless system. The bandwidths spanned by the receive ban... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116295 | Distributed medium access protocol for wireless mesh networks This invention defines a medium access protocol for the support of mesh networking in wireless communications. It defines a phase for intra-cell and a phase for inter-cell traffic. During the inter-cell traffic a beacon phase is used for the reservation of transmiss... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116296 | Communication system, a communication method, and a communication apparatus for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations A communication system for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations is disclosed in which a first communication station for transmitting to other communication stations a Request To Send (RTS) signal for requesting a transmission u... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8089947 | Spatial reuse in directional antenna systems In directional antennas, spatial reuse involves enabling two communications to occur on the same link at the same time. The communications may be in the same or opposite directions. If no link of sufficient bandwidth is available that does not already have an active... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8072961 | Communication system, a communication method, and a communication apparatus with request to send features A communication system for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations is disclosed in which a first communication station for transmitting to other communication stations a Request To Send (RTS) signal for requesting a transmission u... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8036203 | Method and apparatus for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple radio nodes A method, apparatus and computer program product for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple-radio nodes is presented. A Maximum Channel Occupancy Duration (MCOD) limit for a length of an overall transmit period is defined. A set of timers (NNAV) for... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031690 | Ultra wide band communication network An ultra wide band communication network is provided. One embodiment ultra wide band network includes a master device and a plurality of slave devices structured to communicate with the master device using a plurality of ultra wide band pulses. The ultra wide band n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027327 | Distributed scheduling in wireless networks with service differentiation An apparatus includes a first node configured to transmit both data frames and requests for channel reservations to a local contention neighborhood of a network. The first node is configured to compete with other nodes of the neighborhood for reservations to the cha... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014376 | Managing channel configuration information in a wireless communication system The present invention provides for managing channel configuration information in a wireless communication system. Preferably, the present invention receives transport channel configuration information for configuring at least one transport channel currently not mapp... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005064 | Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station an... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000311 | Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station an... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983238 | Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station an... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974260 | Method of transmitting time-critical scheduling information between single network devices in a wireless network using slotted point-to-point links Timing control information, especially scheduling information, is transmitted between single network devices in a wireless network. Timing control information is usually time-critical information since communication parameters may be changing rapidly in wireless net... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969958 | Radio communication apparatus and radio communication control method of radio communication system According to one embodiment, a radio communication apparatus includes a first reservation slot securing unit, a second reservation slot securing unit and a radio communication unit. The first reservation slot securing unit secures a first reservation slot for perfor... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957362 | System and method of communication in mesh networks A network node is provided that includes a transceiver and a component. The transceiver is operable for communication of messages having a broadcast portion and a beamformed data portion. The broadcast portion includes an indicator. The component is operable to prom... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948962 | Cellular communication system, apparatus and method for management of backhaul resources A communication network element comprises traffic scheduler logic capable of scheduling transmission of a first category of queued traffic across a backhaul interface in accordance with a rate control value. The communication network element further comprises traffi... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7920541 | Resource allocation in a radio access network In a radio access network, techniques for enabling the network to provide a service availability guarantee to a user of a premium service without requiring the network to identify a priority level of a connection with an access terminal associated with the premium s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7899024 | Method and apparatus to support VoIP calls in an IEEE 802.16 interface In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a connect control module adapted to receive a dynamic service addition message containing a reserved bandwidth amount of a reserved bandwidth allocation for an uplink service flow. The reserved bandwidth allocation is capab... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881277 | Communication method and apparatus for distributed network system where cognitive radio technology is applied A communication method and apparatus for a distributed network system where a cognitive radio (CR) technology is used. A communication method of a distributed network system where the CR technology is used includes transmitting adjacent channel information, from at ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7860077 | Method of transmitting feedback information in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)/OFDM access (OFDMA) mobile communication system A method of transmitting feedback information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises a mobile station (MS) which determines whether to transmit feedback information to a base station (BS) without solicitation from th... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860076 | Method and apparatus for efficient bandwidth utilization for subscriber unit initialization and synchronization in a time-synchronized communication system A bandwidth efficient subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus is described. The inventive subscriber unit initialization and synchronization method and apparatus uses a combination of an access burst format and a data transportation t... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852824 | Performance in mobile communications systems In third generation mobile communications networks, e.g. CDMA systems, a mobile station intending to access a base station transmits a request for access to a base station and waits for a response in the form of an indicator signal. Both detecting a signal as an ack... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852823 | Communication management method, communication terminal, communication management program, recording medium containing the communication management program, and communication system When a transmission station having a voluntary transmission right transmits FINALL FRAME as a TXOP ending frame to HC, the HC transmits an acknowledgement frame ACK after SIFS following the reception of FINAL FRAME. Here, when the transmitting station has detected t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835340 | Method of supporting multiple codes in a wireless mobile communication system A method of supporting multiple code types in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a channel descriptor from a base station (BS), wherein the channel descriptor includes at least one burst profile whi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822010 | Reservation request improvements Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822009 | Distributed medium access protocol for wireless mesh networks A system for data communication in a wireless mesh network that comprises a wired gateway, and a plurality of nodes stationary with respect to each other being disposed in a pattern including at least one path, each of the plurality of nodes located in the at least ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808966 | Device employment of multiple beacon slots in a distributed network Multiple nodes communicate using repeating patterns of superframes, where each of the superframes includes a beacon period. A beacon slot in a first Media Access Slot (MAS) is reserved by the plurality of nodes. This reserved slot occurs in the beginning of the beac... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7782833 | Method for branching data in mobile communication terminal A method for branching data in a mobile communication terminal to perform data communication between a mobile station and a network which have media access control sublayers. In a data sending mode, each of the media access control sublayers of the mobile station an... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773577 | Method for reducing medium access overhead in a wireless network The invention includes methods for achieving efficient channel access in a wireless communications system. The invention is embodied in a wireless network adapter that is present in all stations belonging to the network. The invention describes methods by which acce... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7756102 | Distributed determination of dynamic frame sizes in a network A communication system includes devices configured to communicate with each other through a temporal sequence of frames. Each of these frames includes multiple sub-channels and the total number of sub-channels in a given frame is dynamically determined based on a tr... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756101 | Efficient resolution of relinquishment requests in a wireless communications network A first device receives a request from a remote device to relinquish at least a portion of an existing reservation in a wireless communications network (e.g., a WiMedia network). The existing reservation is between the first device and a second device. Also, the exi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746840 | Signaling method, system, base station and mobile station In a system for transmitting a plurality of data flows from a mobile station to a base station, combinations of capacities which are given from a radio network controller are optionally or quickly modified in the mobile station to be sent to the base station. The co... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738440 | PCMM application manager A method of assigning network resources between network endpoints includes providing a session initiation request to an application manager. The application manager is logically and physically decoupled from an application server associated with the network endpoint... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7701920 | Communication system, a communication method, and a communication apparatus for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations A communication system for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations is disclosed in which a first communication station for transmitting to other communication stations a Request To Send (RTS) signal for requesting a transmission u... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684380 | System and method for handling asynchronous data in a wireless network A method is provided for transmitting wireless signals in a network comprising a network coordinator and one or more remote devices. The available transmission time is divided into a plurality of superframes, each of which is further divided up into a beacon duratio... | 03/23/2010 |
