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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165151 | Method, system and terminal for implementing upward frequency hopping transmission A method for implementing upward frequency hopping transmission is adopted to the communication system with time slotted frame structure, and it comprises: receiving the frequency band and frequency hopping mode allocated by the network side; after implementing the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8130780 | Method and apparatus for assigning resources in a wireless system with multiple regions A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a tim... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8027355 | Resource allocation method and system There is provided a communication system, comprising a network infrastructure comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit signaling information to user terminals, the signaling information being related to the allocation of the plurality of sub-carriers at a co... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7986708 | Local area network of serial intelligent cells A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978724 | Systems and methods of allocating radio resources Systems and methods of allocating radio resources are provided. It is determined whether a bandwidth assigned to a communication station can be satisfied using available subchannels and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS). When the bandwidth cannot be satisfied usi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7899073 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring for signals and selecting and/or using a communications band based on the monitoring results Methods and apparatus for supporting peer to peer communications are described. A plurality of wide area network communications bands in a wireless communications system are also available for use to communicate peer to peer signals. Some WAN bands may be, and somet... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7830907 | Frame structure for OFDM signaling, including beacons and traffic Provided is a frame structure for filtered OFDM signaling, wherein once every frame a central controller passes redundant broadcast data for a short time (e.g. 16 symbol times) over all frequencies in use. This broadcast, called a beacon, may carry control informati... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7804841 | Method and communication apparatus for deciding a transmitting region for an allocated transmitting burst in a frame of an OFDMA system A method and a communication apparatus for deciding a transmitting region for an allocated transmitting burst in a frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiplex access (OFDMA) system are provided. The communication apparatus comprises a decoder and a processin... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7746885 | Tower discovery and failover Described is a communication system including wireless client devices. In the described system, the client devices may be wrist-worn watches such as are in common use today, except that the watches are specially configured to receive transmissions from broadcast tow... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7720086 | Distributed overlay multi-channel media access control for wireless ad hoc networks Systems and methods for distributed overlay multi-channel MAC for wireless ad hoc networks are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods divide channel frequencies defined by a wireless network protocol into a single home channel and multiple guest channels ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7646784 | Apparatus for estimating frequency offset from received signal and method for the same Provided are an apparatus for estimating frequency offset from received signal and method for the same. The apparatus and method estimates frequency offset precisely without increment of autocorrelator by performing moving average filtering on a noised signal to the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7593420 | Method for allocating resources in a multicarrier system and transmission apparatus using the same In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system, an apparatus and method allocates resources for data transmission and transmits/receives user data using the allocated resources. A full subcarrier band allocable for one cell is di... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7564863 | Frequency offset differential pulse position modulation The present invention provides such a need by utilizing a frequency offset differential pulse position modulation scheme to transmit data between computing devices within a wireless network system. The differential pulse position modulation component of the scheme e... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7450604 | Method and apparatus for establishing circuit connections over local area networks with frequency selective impairments Local area network bandwidth is partitioned into periodic data frames. Data frames are further segregated into spectrum and time slots. Bandwidth reserved by assigning spectrum and time slots to particular circuit connections; enabling deterministic data transfer fr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440443 | Integrated universal network adapter An integrated network adapter is operable to establish a network interface with a plurality of media types, including at least a power line network and a telephone line network, based on pre-configuration, upon initialization and dynamically during operation. The ad... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433334 | Method for establishing a communication link between a user equipment and a radio network A method for improving the performance of random access when establishing a communication link between a user equipment (UE) and a radio network (UTRAN) the method includes transmitting a random access message (RAM) from the user equipment (UE) to the radio network ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426374 | Combination of high-side and low-side current sensing in system for providing power over communication link A system for supplying power to a load over a communication link has high-side current sensing circuitry for measuring a high-side current value, low-side current sensing circuitry for measuring a low-side current value, and control circuitry responsive to both the ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7406036 | Radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus, communication terminal apparatus and transmission rate predicting method A radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus capable of predicting an accurate transmission rate before starting data communications to know download time and the like. In the apparatus, a packet CH demodulation sectio... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7366532 | Group call management through receive/transmit synchronization A method of communicating with a transceiver (120). In one arrangement, the method of communicating with the transceiver can be performed in a systemless group environment. Synchronization information (150) can be received from a mobile transceiver ( | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359447 | Asynchronous digital signal combiner and method of combining asynchronous digital signals in cable television return path A device for and method of combining asynchronous digital return signals from multiple nodes of a CATV return path is disclosed. The signals are digitally filtered, re-sampled at a common output rate and digitally combined (e.g., summed) without being converted to a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359448 | Remote transmitter system and method A remote transmitter system for vehicle applications includes a remote transmitter for carrying by a user and a receiver for mounting on a vehicle and receiving an amplitude modulated signal. The transmitter is operative to transmit the amplitude modulated signal at... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352293 | Multi-mode encoder output generator Various apparatus and methods of a multi-mode encoder output generator are disclosed. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343170 | System and method for allowing nodes in a wireless communication network to access multiple channels A method for allowing a node in a wireless communication network to access time slot assignment information on multiple channels includes assigning the node to a first channel associated with a channelized neighborhood having a plurality of nodes. The node communica... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342913 | Method for assigning slots in a mobile network A method of acquiring transmit and receive slots in a peer-to-peer network comprising acquiring data about a plurality of nodes in the network, the data including a code corresponding to send slots and receive slots for the plurality of nodes; finding an available c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342937 | Spectrally flexible band plans with reduced filtering requirements The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method of simplifying filtering with respect to a band plan. The method includes selecting a reflection point relative to the band plan and designating subchannels as unusable within a filterable separation of the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339945 | System and method for partitioning streaming data coded with fine granularity scalability of use in a cable network System and method for partitioning data on a SCDMA cable network use methods of creating data streams to transmit to a head end. Further, the data streams transmitted to the head end are coded with fine granularity scalability features and contain divisions which ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336633 | Media access controller for high bandwidth communication media and method of operation thereof An access control method for a medium, a media access controller and a wireless communication system incorporating the method or the controller. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) allowing first and second devices to employ a control channel defined in the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333560 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system Techniques to process data for transmission in a time division duplexed (TDD) communication system. In one aspect, the frequency response of a forward link is estimated at a base station based on reverse link transmissions (e.g., pilots) from a terminal. Prior to a ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333503 | Sending permission assignment in telecommunications system A method for assigning sending permissions in a telecommunications system and a telecommunications system comprising a unit (20) providing access to said system for at least one telecommunication terminal (40) and a control unit (11) for schedul... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333423 | Transceiver with calibrated I and Q paths and methods for deconvolved calibration Phase and amplitude offsets of a multicarrier transceiver may be reduced by measuring receiver amplitude and phase mismatches of receiver radio-frequency (RF) circuitry by performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on a receiver calibration signal. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333579 | Robust symbol timing recovery circuit for telephone line modem A robust symbol timing recovery circuit for a telephone line modem is provided. The symbol timing recovery circuit comprises a timing estimator and an interpolator. The timing estimator, which performs an operation on input samples and estimates a timing offset of a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330877 | Devices, softwares and methods for rescheduling multi-party sessions upon premature termination of session Devices, softwares and methods reschedule multi-party sessions upon premature termination of a wireless communication session. Upon sensing a premature termination, an access point transmits a rescheduling frame. All sessions are advanced in time, which saves time i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327998 | System and method of providing a geographic view of nodes in a wireless network A geographic view rendering tool receives geographic location data for nodes in a wireless network and renders a geographic view displaying the nodes at their corresponding geographic locations. The geographic view may be displayed overlaying a digital map. The geog... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317706 | Fair share scheduling method in a CDMA paging system A method for scheduling messages transmitted on a forward common channel of a CDMA system. The method includes determining the ratio between the slotted and unslotted messages transmitted over the forward common channel over a period of time. For each time slot S(i)... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315162 | Reducing power consumption of electrical meters The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for powering the electronic co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312721 | Data collector for an automated meter reading system The invention includes an electronic utility meter, a data collector/meter and a method for communicating data in an automated meter reading system. The inventive method includes communicating data with a network and a first electronic utility meter, and communicati... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310380 | Generic transmission parameter configuration A method of determining transmission parameters for a wireless transceiver is disclosed. According to the method, a state table is loaded into a transceiver. The state table includes a plurality of states, each of which has a set of transmission parameters associate... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304974 | Supporting a network behind a wireless station An apparatus for supporting a network behind a wireless station includes a gateway that can receive from a wireless station a request for a communications session. The gateway can determine whether to authenticate the communications session, and, in response to dete... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301476 | Dynamic self-configuring metering network A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and registers such meters as level one meters. The collector transmits instr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286618 | Digital AGC circuit To perform gain adjustment of the amplitude of a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) wobble signal from a DVD to enable high-precision demodulation of address information, a peak detection circuit detects a peak value in a time period equal to or more than a half perio... | 10/23/2007 |
