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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189610 | Resource management and recursive path computation for real-time automatic path setup at multi-layer transport network A recursive path computation method is disclosed to integratedly manage resources required for a computation of a data transmission path in a multi-layer transport network to enable automatic real time allocation of lower layer resources required for processing a pa... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170046 | Terminal and method of controlling broadcasting therein A mobile terminal including a user input unit configured to select a first broadcast channel, and a controller configured to buffer broadcast data relevant to at least one second broadcast channel different than the first broadcast channel for a predetermined time i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165152 | Method and apparatus for prioritizing logical channels A method and apparatus are disclosed for prioritizing logical channels when a new transmission is performed. Logical channel resources are allocated for available data to a plurality of logical channels. A maximum bit rate (MBR) credit (i.e., token) is decremented i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149860 | Cable broadcast receiving apparatus and composing method of channel map thereof A cable broadcast receiving apparatus and composing method thereof are provided where a cable broadcast receiver receives a cable broadcast signal, a Point-of-Deployment (“POD”) cable card processes out-of-band data received from the cable broadcast receiver, an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130781 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic selection of carriers An approach is provided for communicating in a multi-carrier system. A carrier selector selects one or more carriers among a plurality of carriers for transport of data over the multi-carrier system, wherein the data is transmitted using the selected carriers. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121141 | Confidential transmission of data by change of frequency in a telecommunications network Data is transmitted by a first terminal (11) to a second terminal (12) in a telecommunications network (10) in a plurality of sets of data packets. In the first and second terminals, as a function of a selection rule common to the first and seco... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111710 | Method and apparatus for receiving feedback corresponding to multicast broadcast service The invention is directed to a method for receiving a feedback for at least a multicast broadcast service flow transmitting to a plurality of subscriber stations. The method comprises steps of assigning a plurality of code division multiple access (CDMA) codes to a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111709 | MIMO wireless communication system A wireless communication method in a MIMO OFDMA system in which users in each of multiple adjacent cells are served by a base station of the cell, the base station having a transmission link to each user in the cell on a respective MIMO channel. The method involves ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098679 | Method and apparatus for providing composite link assignment in network design A method and apparatus for composite link assignment are provided such that network capacity is sufficient to handle all the traffic (e.g., load) while an objective function, e.g., the total cost of the capacity is minimized. The present method receives a plurality ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081650 | Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches A method for assigning virtual lanes (VL) in a fiber channel switch is provided. The fiber channel switch element includes a virtual lane cache that can compare incoming frame parameters based on which virtual lanes may be assigned; and a register to store parameter... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8064476 | Techniques for quick access channel information loading in wireless networks An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of quick access channel information loading in wireless networks, comprising mapping at least one quick access channel to one distributed resource unit of control tiles, said control tiles being spread across ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040912 | Multicarrier communication system, multicarrier communication apparatus and CQI reporting method Provided is a multicarrier communication apparatus by which information quantity of CQI reporting can be reduced. In the apparatus, each CQI is recorded in a CQI table section (122) by being classified into a plurality of CQI groups by following a certain rul... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031737 | Method of changing channels and configuring a sub network in a wireless network A method of changing channels of a first device in a wireless network, which includes a first coordinator and at least one device, comprises searching whether another channel other than a first channel which is currently used in the wireless network is available, ch... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023526 | Adaptive channel prediction apparatus and method for performing uplink pre-equalization depending on downlink channel variation in OFDM/TDD mobile communication system Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for changing a channel prediction depending on the degree of downlink channel variation in predicting an uplink channel for uplink pre-equalization. N number of Doppler frequency ranges are set according to downlink channel va... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005109 | Method and network apparatus for adjusting communication resources within a community A method and a network apparatus for adjusting communication resources in a community are disclosed. When the topological structure of the community changes, e.g., when new base station joins or exits, and when the community combines or splits, each base station re-... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7974301 | Adaptive network to dynamically account for hidden nodes One embodiment of the present invention relates to a network element that is configured to be associated with a network having a number of nodes. The master node is configured to communicate with a number of nodes and allocate bandwith therebetween by sending outgoi... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974300 | Configuration for messaging multiplexed channel instances with varying connection speeds A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for selecting a channel instance for connecting a client with a server in a multi-channel instance computer system. In this computer system, when a new channel instance is used for connecting the client with ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949005 | Device, system, and method of wireless communication of base stations Device, system and method of wireless communication of base stations. In some demonstrative embodiments a method may include, for example, transmitting a downlink transmission over a frequency band from a first base station during a first time period; and receiving ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933287 | Wireless communication mobile station device, wireless communication base station device and CQI report method Provided is a wireless communication mobile station device by which a throughput can be improved in multicarrier communication. In the device, a group control section (107) controls a subcarrier group, of which CQI is to be reported, among a plurality of subc... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929564 | System, apparatus, and method for loading bits into sub-channels An apparatus and a method for loading a predetermined number of bits into a plurality of sub-channels are provided. The apparatus comprises a sort module, a calculation module, and a decision module. The sort module is configured to sort the sub-channels into a plur... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924866 | Random access channel protocol The present invention provides an improved random access channel protocol, wherein different user elements may be associated with different priority levels. Based on relative priority, the user elements may have different probabilities for deciding when to retransmi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920585 | Vehicular communication device and control information generating device A vehicular communication device switches over a communication method between the OFDM method and the SS method. A PLC master set includes a LAN communication unit for performing data communications with control units such as an engine control ECU via an in-vehicle ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916745 | Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request in multi input multi output system An apparatus and method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) system. The method includes computing weights of erroneous packets and weights of transmitting antennas by using channel information; sorting the weights of the erroneous... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7860122 | Method and system for prioritizing initial maintenance of cable modems A user device connected to a CMTS over a network is configured such that upon power-up it can use a universal broadcast SID or a predetermined multicast SID to obtain an initial maintenance during a maintenance window. The predetermined multicast SID is assigned to ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856029 | Pre-start-up procedure for internal interface of distributed radio base station A radio base station (20) has an internal interface (26) connecting a radio equipment (RE) (24) and a radio equipment controller (REC) (22). The radio base station performs a pre-start-up procedure or method for the internal (26). ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7848343 | Traffic management for a passive optical network terminal Techniques are described for managing traffic flow to an optical network terminal (ONT) on a passive optical network (PON) to prevent an individual ONT from being overrun. Specifically, the techniques involve reducing a transmission rate of a unique traffic flow and... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848344 | Method for transmitting subscriber-specific data During the transmission of subscriber-specific data, particularly via a transfer medium and according to a transmission principle based on time slot transmission with time slot separation, the transfer medium used by several subscribers can also be efficiently used ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7839882 | Resource allocation in a wireless communication system Method and apparatus for scheduling transmissions in a wireless communication system using historical information and usage patterns of remote users in the system. Usage patterns for users within a system are stored and analyzed to optimize transmissions and resourc... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835382 | High definition and low power partial functionality communication link Communication link including a cable containing four pairs of wires, three transmitters to transmit uncompressed video data and audio data over three of the pairs of wires to three receivers, and two transceivers to form a bidirectional multi data type communication... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822058 | Method for transitioning between coordination modes for interfering neighbor networks Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for establishing, managing and transitioning between network coordination modes. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7796633 | Range equalization transceiver system and method of using same A range equalization transceiver system (100) for increasing efficiency of a continuous duty communications link includes a first transceiver (105) for transmitting data traffic over a broadband traffic channel and a second transceiver (107) for... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796634 | Determining a profile for an interface of a network device Selecting a profile for an interface of a network device includes accessing profile sequences, where each profile sequence corresponds to an interface. Each profile sequence includes profiles that provide parameters for communicating data. The following are repeated... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796635 | Transmission system and method for assigning transmission channel A transmission terminal measures an error rate by periodically transmitting an error rate measuring packet to all transmission channels and all transmission paths. Content to be transmitted is classified, so that a transmission channel of the best transmission quali... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787485 | Method of transmitting a high-priority message in a lighting control system A lighting control system having a plurality of control devices coupled to a communication link operates with a communication protocol that allows the system to expeditiously process high-priority events while operating communicate at a low enough baud rate to allow... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7778269 | Methods and systems for customized multi-application channel control Methods and devices are provided to aid in the control of a channel used in communicating data packets between a first communication device and a communication device with which the first communication device is communicating. For an open session occurring on the ch... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760752 | Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems A method and switch element for assigning priority to pseudo virtual lanes (“PVL”) using a fibre channel switch element is provided. The method includes, assigning received R_RDYs based on a PVL distribution scheme; and determining traffic congestion on a PVL if... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760751 | System for supporting consecutive and distributed subcarrier channels in OFDMA networks A system and method of downlink resource allocation to both Distributed Resource Channel (DRCH) and Localized Resource Channel (LRCH) users in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network. A utility function is provided for each LRCH and DRCH use... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756151 | Adaptive network to dynamically account for hidden nodes One embodiment of the present invention relates to a network element that is configured to be associated with a network having a number of nodes. The master node is configured to communicate with a number of nodes and allocate bandwidth therebetween by sending outgo... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751423 | Scheduler A scheduler in a communication network comprising a communication channel which is shared by a plurality of user nodes, the communication channel having a succession of slots. The scheduler has a quality unit for receiving an indication of the quality of the communi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746886 | Asymmetrical MIMO wireless communications A method for asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication begins by determining a number of transmission antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by determining a number of reception antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless comm... | 06/29/2010 |
