Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189556 | Packet transmitting method in mobile communication system Disclosed in a mobile communication system, and more particularly a method of re-transmitting data through a reverse link in a packet data system using ARQ (automatic repeat request) and a packet transmitting method and apparatus by which transmission efficiency is ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179877 | Method and apparatus for creating an enhanced medium access control packet data unit for enhanced transport format combination selection in wireless communications Efficient enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC) selection methods and apparatus support flexible radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) size and medium access control (MAC) layer segmentation. Methods for filling an enhanced medium access control (M... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175075 | Adaptive header compression in a wireless communication network In one embodiment, whether packet loss of link layer packets at a receiver has exceeded a lost threshold is detected. Feedback is sent to a transmitter indicating that a header compressor, for compressing higher layer packets at the transmitter, should send a less c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169995 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having delay-insensitive data transfer A system and method using a medium access control (MAC) header for a wireless communication system including an application layer, a MAC layer, and a physical (PHY) layer is disclosed. The MAC header accommodates time-delay insensitive data transfer between devices ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160051 | Gateway relaying communication between a radio intelligent terminal and a server In a communication system for establishing the communication between a radio intelligent terminal and a server via gateways, it is necessary to notify a non-communicating and a disconnecting radio intelligent terminal of an address of an exchange-destination gateway... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160050 | Mobile communication terminal having multicasting function and multicasting method using the same A mobile communication terminal and multicasting method using the same are disclosed, by which an inter-multiuser multicasting function can be performed without using an access point. The present invention includes a user interface unit, a multicast group management... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160049 | Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a hybrid automatic repeat request memory A method and apparatus for dynamically configuring a memory for hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a receiving node to permit a more flexible H-ARQ memory configuration and improve the performance of H-ARQ processes. An H-ARQ memory in the receivin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155104 | Method for preamble-based bandwidth request in wireless portable internet system Disclosed is a method for a preamble-based bandwidth request. The present invention enables state control of a subscriber station based on the latest environment in a portable Internet system requesting a bandwidth using a preamble, and hence allows a subsequent mor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149816 | Header compression and packet transmission method in sensor network and apparatus therefor A header compression and packet transmission method in a sensor network and an apparatus therefor, for selecting technologies related to Internet Protocol (IP) header compression according to characteristics of each node, and processing the technologies. The header ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144684 | System and method for traffic localization Systems and methods for bridging packet flows to bypass call legs and/or tunnels are provided. A tunnel initiator, which can be an access gateway, a foreign agent, and a mobility anchor point, for example, provides a bypass for certain packets that have a destinatio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144683 | High throughput fine timing After detecting the predetermined phase rotation, a receiver can advantageously remove any cyclic shifting delays (CSDs) from the mixed mode packet for each chain. Once any CSDs are removed, the receiver can perform timing offset estimation and decode the mixed mode... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139555 | Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method A bi-directional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139554 | Providing bounded latency communication in wireless mesh networks Communicating using a mesh network is disclosed. A frame length used for communicating a packet between a first node and a second node of a wireless mesh network is selected. A route from the first node to the second node is determined including one or more intermed... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134995 | Mobile ad-hoc network routing based upon hardware address A system, method, and computer readable medium for mobile ad hoc network routing based upon a hardware address that comprises, identifying a destination node hardware address of a data packet that is outbound from a host node, searching a host node routing table for... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125975 | Communications throughput with unicast packet transmission alternative An access point of a communications network is configured to receive a multicast or broadcast packet from a source. The access point converts the multicast or broadcast packet into a unicast packet addressed to a station associated with the access point. The access ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121110 | Method and apparatus for locationing an object in a communication network A method and apparatus for locationing an object in a communication network. The method includes transmitting by a wireless transceiver fixed to the object of unknown location a plurality of radio frequency (RF) packets to a plurality of locationing receivers (LRs) ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121109 | Method and system for remotely controlling appliances A method of remotely controlling at least one domestic appliance, remote control of such domestic appliances is triggered automatically by detecting a mobile communications terminal entering or leaving a radio reception perimeter of a control device. The control dev... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121108 | Data slot allocation method used to transmit uncompressed AV data, and method and apparatus for transmitting uncompressed AV data Provided is a method and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting large data in a more efficient and stable manner. In particular, provided is a data slot allocation method used to transmit uncompressed audio/video (AV) data. The data slot allocation method includes tr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116297 | Routing data packets from a moving network to a home network A system, method, and router for routing data packets from a moving network to an associated home network. A data packet originating from a mobile network node in the moving network is routed over any of a number of external accesses accessible from different mobile... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111682 | “Shield”: protecting high priority channel access attempts in overlapped wireless cells A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. An inter-cell contention-free period value is assigned to a first access poi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102835 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a beacon length indication A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. A beacon length indication and processing method is provided to solve the problem o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098646 | Digital broadcast system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcast data, and data processing method for use in the same A digital broadcast system having storing resistance to errors generated during the transmission of mobile service data, and a data processing method are disclosed. The digital broadcast system additionally encodes mobile service data. As a result, the mobile servic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094645 | Communication system for transmission of link layer datagram over a wireless network A network controller for facilitating roaming of a mobile wireless communications device between access points communicates with at least one access point over a wired network which, in turn, communicate with a mobile wireless communications device over a wireless n... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094644 | Method and system for dynamically configuring a traffic flow template A system and method for configuring a Traffic Flow Template, TFT, in real time. The present invention dynamically adapts the TFT to control the routing of downlink data packets from a GGSN to an MS. When the MS sends an uplink data packet on a premium bearer channel... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089948 | Header compression of multimedia data transmitted over a wireless communication system Methods and apparatus are described for improving the transmission of multimedia data over wireless communication channels. These techniques include determining a physical layer packet size of the wireless communication system and determining a maximum size of a com... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089949 | Distributed access point for IP based communications An apparatus for Internet-Protocol based communications in a wireless network includes a network interface, a controller, and memory. The interface receives a series of multicast data packets. The controller identifies one or more receiving nodes in the wireless net... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085752 | Handling connections moving between firewalls A method of handling mobile entities in a firewall, wherein a first mobile entity table comprising identifiers of mobile entities, which are active in a firewall, and a second mobile entity table comprising identifiers of mobile entities, which are active in a prede... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085753 | Method and relate apparatus for enhancing transmission efficiency in a transmitter of a wireless communication system A method for enhancing transmission efficiency in a transmitter of a wireless communication system includes forming a first RLC PDU and a second RLC PDU with a size equal to a size of the first RLC PDU in an RLC layer, submitting the first RLC PDU and the second RLC... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081618 | Method and apparatus of continuous packet connectivity enhancement in a wireless communications system In order to improve continuous packet connectivity (CPC), the present invention provides a method of improving CPC for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications system. The method includes receiving the HS-PDSCHs indicated by a control information and decod... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077695 | Methods and apparatus for separating home agent functionality MIP Home Agent (HA) architectures are described that decompose, e.g., split, packet forwarding control functionality from actual data packet forwarding operations performed by a conventional MIP HA. This places MIP routing control in a node which is distinct from th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072962 | Method of detecting and solving network ID conflict A method of detecting and solving a network ID conflict is provided. The method of detecting and solving a network ID conflict includes generating and transmitting a personal area network identifier (PAN ID) report command frame that includes an extended PAN ID, and... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064428 | Method and apparatus for ordering retransmissions in an NxM MIMO system A method is provided for ordering retransmissions in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system using N×M antennas. A transmitter splits a coded data stream into N sub-packets, and transmits the N sub-packets to a receiver via N transmission antennas. The receiver re... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064427 | Communication system, mobile terminal and access router A new technique is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal after executing handover between subnets can quickly perform packet transmission to outside immediately after the handover. According to this technique, after deciding the execution of handover, MN (mobile ter... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050249 | Methods for reducing contention and/or handling channel access in a network A first information block is transmitted from a first terminal, the first terminal retaining access to a channel until either i) the first information block is acknowledged by a second terminal, or ii) at least a first predetermined period of time following transmis... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050248 | Retransmission in wireless communication systems The invention relates to retransmissions in wireless communication systems. It is proposed to reduce the retransmission delays by utilizing feedback associated with a lower protocol layer than the conventional feedback messages of the ARQ functionality. After sendin... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050247 | Method and apparatus for retransmitting packet in a mobile communication system, and system thereof A retransmission method and apparatus performed in a transmitter of a mobile communication system supporting a Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest (HARQ) operation and an Automatic Retransmission request (ARQ) operation for retransmission of a packet are provide... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040869 | Method and apparatus for automatic discovery of logical links between network devices The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for automatic discovery of logical links between network devices. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises part of a network management system (“NM”) that manages a discrete set of network devices.... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036204 | Mobile terminal, control apparatus, home agent and packet communications method In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one ne... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031691 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgment (ACK) frames A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet, and a transmitter configured to send a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027328 | Header compression in a wireless communication network In one embodiment, a relationship is determined between radio link protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in received RLP packets and real-time protocol (RTP) sequence numbers in RTP packets decompressed from the received RLP packets. An RTP sequence number associated with... | 09/27/2011 |
