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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184656 | Control channel negotiated intermittent wireless communication A dual mode communication device utilizes a control channel to exploit diversity, history, and context in advance of establishing a broadband data exchange session on a broadband but shorter range wireless data channel, maximizing productive use of such a session. A... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184655 | Wireless communication method and WLAN for signaling deferral management messages A deferral management method is implemented in a wireless local area network (WLAN) including an access point (AP) and a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). The AP sends a deferral management capabilities request message to the WTRUs to determine t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8160089 | Dynamic inter packet gap generation system and method The present invention facilitates network throughput by dynamically generating IPG values, which are employed when recovering from network collisions. Testing a number of IPG values and tracking collisions that occur as a result for each value generate the IPG value... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155139 | Systems and methods for management of wireless clients Systems and methods for band hopping and power conservation in a wireless network are described. At least one embodiment is directed a method of hopping channels by a device within a wireless network. The method comprises hopping from a first channel to a target cha... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155140 | Collision avoidance for a network system Determining if a packetized wireless signal is present on a wireless communication medium. A first signal may be received from the wireless communication medium. A correlation of the first signal may be performed using a delayed version of the first signal to produc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149864 | Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method A communication terminal used in a mobile communication system complying with a carrier sense multiple access scheme is disclosed. The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a wireless packet transmitted by another communication term... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149863 | Detection of strong high frequency sinusoidal interference in wireless communications A method is provided for controlling access to a wireless communications medium. The method includes: sampling RF activity on the medium; autocorrelating samples to produce a first value indicative of autocorrelation computed with a first delay substantially matchin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149862 | Multi-protocol communication circuit A multi-protocol communication circuit, for example, a serializer-deserializer (SerDes) circuit for communicating between an internal logic circuit and an external link includes a select terminal configured to accept a select signal representing a plurality of mode ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144723 | Method and system for stable throughput of cognitive radio In one embodiment, a cognitive radio system includes a first transmitter in communication with a first receiver via a wireless channel. The first transmitter receives a plurality of first packets, and transmits the first packets to the first receiver via the channel... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139599 | System and method for operating a communications system A method (500, 600) is provided of operating a local transceiver (300), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (520); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifyin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139600 | Quality of service half-duplex media access controller A method comprises terminating transmission of a first frame having a first class of service when a transmission failure is detected, incrementing an attempt count for the first class of service, transmitting a second frame having a second class of service before re... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130783 | Method of joining a cell using a proxy coordinator, and a network therefor A method of joining a cell by using a proxy coordinator. The method of joining a cell by using a proxy coordinator includes requesting a second device to operate as a proxy coordinator from a first device positioned out of a beacon frame reachable area of the cell, ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130784 | Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method A communication terminal used in a mobile communication system complying with a carrier sense multiple access scheme is disclosed. The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a wireless packet transmitted by another communication term... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126006 | Method of providing a medium access protocol A method of providing a medium access control protocol using a listen before-talk scheme within a wireless network having a plurality of stations communicating over a channel, wherein a valid route from a source station to a destination station via at least one more... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8089981 | Method of resolving duplicate MAC addresses, network device management system, server, and information device MAC addresses of information devices on a network are collected using a broadcast frame or multicast frame of Ethernet®. If duplicate MAC addresses are detected, an Ethernet® frame, including a device identifier of information device and a MAC address to be set, i... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085806 | Method and apparatus for detecting a collision in a carrier sense multiple access wireless system A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting a collision in a carrier sense multiple access wireless communication system. Each transmitting station includes a collision detector that evaluates one or more predefined criteria to determine when a collision has ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8054851 | Method for detecting hidden station in a wireless communication network and system therefor Disclosed is a method for detecting a hidden station in a specific station constituting a wireless communication network that includes receiving a frame after a lapse of an idle state interval longer than a predetermined waiting time; determining that there is a hid... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054852 | Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method A communication terminal used in a mobile communication system complying with a carrier sense multiple access scheme is disclosed. The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a wireless packet transmitted by another communication term... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050287 | 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... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045574 | Contention protocols for wireless medium access in communication networks Wireless medium access in a communication network having a number of terminals is controlled by defining protocol message units for transmission by a given terminal which units correspond to operational states of at least one of the terminal and the medium. A number... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040913 | Method for signaling back-off information in random access A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027356 | Method for signaling back-off information in random access A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, an... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8000341 | Methods and systems for detecting collisions in access/utilization of resources of contention Systems and methods are described for detecting collisions in packets related to attempted access or utilization of a resource or pool of resources in a given timeslot in which the energy level of corrupted received access probe packets are compared with a threshold... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995604 | Collision avoidance for communications within a device A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983293 | External signal supply unit, vehicle state acquisition system and external signal supply method If a trigger unit in a set range is received after a transmission, an annunciation portion is advised of a likelihood of radio interference. In this case, no trigger signal is supplied. If identifier information that has been received corresponds to the identifier i... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978725 | Dynamic modification of contention-based transmission control parameters achieving load balancing scheme in wireless mesh networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating load balancing and bandwidth allocation in wireless mesh networks. Generally, according to one implementation of the present invention, routing nodes implement a contention-based media access mechanism and se... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974302 | Hybrid implicit token carrier sensing multiple access/collision avoidance protocol Provided is a distributed and asynchronous implicit token carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol guaranteeing quality of service for both real time and non-real time traffic. The implicit token CSMA/CA protocol allocates a band in an en... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965733 | Systems and methods to detect and avoid collisions in channel sense multiple access communications with multipacket reception Methods and systems to perform collision detection (CD) in a communication network are disclosed. Methods and systems over multipacket reception (MPR)-capable physical layers are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for transmitting information in a network... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965732 | Scheduling token-controlled data transmissions in communication networks A network includes multiple nodes interconnected to form a ring topology. These nodes support data transmissions over the network using tokens. To send and receive data over the network, nodes may process control messages. A node can receive a token authorizing tran... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961752 | Transmission in a shared medium having different access modes A method of controlling access in a telecommunication network in which a communication medium, such as a set of frequencies, time slots, or codes, is shared among a plurality of mobile units. Transmissions from the mobile units utilize different access modes, such a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953104 | Transmission protection for communications networks having stations operating with different modulation formats A technique to allow enhanced stations and legacy stations to work with each other without the inefficiencies of signaling overhead in the prior art is disclosed. An enhanced station transmits an initial, short frame using a modulation compatible with legacy station... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944939 | Adaptive synchronous media access protocol for shared media networks In some embodiments of the present invention, asynchronous network nodes and synchronous network nodes coexist on a shared media network. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940789 | Method for evaluating radio links in a communication network The invention concerns a method for the rate regulation of radio link probing in a communication network comprising at least a receiver terminal and at least one transmitter terminal, characterized by the steps, at the level of the receiver terminal, of: | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924867 | Communications network using reservation indicator The present invention relates to a communications network including transmitting stations and receiving stations for transmitting and receiving signals, the transmitting stations being adapted for transmitting a data signal as a series of data packets, wherein a dat... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916746 | Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals An access contention scheme is described for use by a station in a network of stations. Access contention by a station having a frame to be transmitted includes detecting contention control information for a contention period and determining from the contention cont... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907627 | Wireless communication method following DCF rule Provided are a method and apparatus which can reduce the possibility of collision with other frames when transmitting a broadcast/multicast frame in a wireless local area network (LAN) following a Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) rule, thereby ensuring reliab... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7881328 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to a communication channel A method and an apparatus provide for controlled access to a shared communication medium. Time slots on a forward channel include information regarding status useful for remote units to determine whether a reverse channel is available for seizure. Additionally, info... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876770 | Clear channel assessment in wireless communications Techniques for and apparatus capable of implementing packet detection and signal recognition in wireless communications systems are disclosed. In particular, the disclosed techniques and apparatus incorporate at least one of relative energy detection operable on ass... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7852872 | System and method for message queue management in a power-save network A method and apparatus for communicating information between networked devices. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, for example, a first networked device communicating information over a wireless communication network to a second networked device ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835383 | Method and system for providing a modified timed division multiple access (TDMA) for reduced delay A method for shared access of a communication channel is provided, which includes dividing access to the communication channel into a plurality of time slots, and allocating the time slots, at least partially, based on a priority of use of the communication channel.... | 11/16/2010 |
