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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190145 | Apparatus and method for mobile station-assisted optimization of a wireless network A radio frequency (RF) coverage server for use in a wireless network comprising base stations that communicate with mobile stations located in a coverage area of the wireless network. The RF coverage server receives from the mobile stations geographic location data ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170544 | Method and system for integrated management of base transceiver station (BTS) with wireless backhaul A base transceiver station (BTS) includes a radio access network (RAN) interface for communicating with mobile stations and a backhaul interface for communicating with a backhaul network. A RAN element management system generates RAN status information based on even... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170543 | Code domain power display A method for displaying multiple orthogonal code layers on a display device wherein a first axis is indicative of the identity of the code channel of a signal and a second axis is indicative of a measured value of the code channel signal. The method includes display... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170545 | Information technology support system and method A computer support tool is provided. The tool includes diagnostic software and a user interface. The diagnostic software identifies information associated with a computer problem, wherein the information is based on the needs of help desk personnel. The user interfa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165577 | Pilot signal transmission management A base station is configured to reduce interference with other base stations and/or devices in a multi-cell wireless network. The base station includes a wireless interface, detector and controller. To reduce interference, the wireless interface may provide services... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160571 | Mobile device and method for collecting location based user quality data A mobile device executes software. The software collects realistic and accurate user quality information without degrading the user experience of the mobile device during the data collection process. The software operates as a background application, and may have a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155638 | Orthogonal code noise simulator for high speed downlink packet access Disclosed is a system and method for testing mobile communications in a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) mobile communications network by generating one or more virtual users. Specifically, a high speed downlink shared channel is scheduled for a user (e.g.,... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150388 | Method for testing a navigation receiver The present invention is related to a method for testing a navigation receiver comprised in a communication device, whereby the communication device further comprises a device for mobile wireless communication. The method comprises the steps of: | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145206 | Wireless telecommunications systems A method for controlling uplink transmissions from a user device to an access point in a wireless telecommunications system is described. Each access point defines a communications cell, and the method comprises monitoring interference in an uplink channel at an acc... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145207 | Apparatus and method for avoiding interference between base station and relay station when using full duplex relay in a multi hop relay system An apparatus and method for avoiding interference between a base station and a relay station when using full duplex relay in a multi-hop relay wireless communication system are provided. An operation of a mobile station includes measuring an strength of a receive si... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145205 | Method and apparatus for estimating speech quality A method of estimating the quality of speech information associated with a voice call over a communication system comprising a core network and an access network where speech information is carried between the access network and the core network and within the core ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140067 | Systems and methods for call analysis A method of operating a computer system comprises receiving per call measurement (PCM) data associated with a radio access network, processing the PCM data to perform a rolling average analysis of dropped calls by the radio access network, processing the rolling ave... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140068 | Techniques for feedback in cellular systems to mitigate interference in downlink An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising broadcasting base station (BS) channel allocation methods and supported interference mitigation techniques in a whole cell by the base station and reporting classification information by mobile sta... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140069 | System and method for determining the audio fidelity of calls made on a cellular network using frame error rate and pilot signal strength The present invention provides a method and system for defining the mean opinion score (MOS) as a function of frame error rate (FER) and pilot signal strength. In an embodiment of the invention, an entity receives MOS scores that have been obtained using subjective ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135395 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring configurable performance levels in a wireless device Apparatus and methods may include a performance module operable to monitor and generate performance statistics on a wireless device based on a received monitoring configuration. In some aspects, the wireless device may forward the performance statistics to another d... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135396 | Wireless communication terminal and method A wireless communication terminal includes a measuring unit configured to measure each of channel qualities of resource blocks that a base station can allocate, a generating unit configured to divide the resource blocks into a plurality of groups, to generate qualit... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131284 | Method and system for transmission and/or reception calibration of mobile-telephone devices The invention relates to a method and system for calibrating the transmission and/or reception of at least one mobile radio device wherein a respectively defined number of test signal reference level values in predetermined for the mobile device(s) for a specific nu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121590 | Method and arrangements in a mobile communication network A method in a node of cellular telecommunication network comprising receiving downlink quality measurements of a primary carrier frequency and at least one secondary carrier frequency and combining the received downlink quality measurements of the primary carrier fr... | 02/21/2012 |
| RE43208 | Method for computing maximum traffic capacitance of a base station using a virtual call A method for computing maximum traffic capacitance of a base station using a virtual call in the digital mobile communication system in such a way that an operator at operating terminal for Base Station Manager (BSM) inputs call-set-request instructions using the vi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121589 | Reporting measurements from a mobile station to a network and associated handover control method A mobile station receives dedicated signaling from the network to obtain measurement configuration data specified for it. The measurement configuration data stored in the mobile station include: measurement object elements each designating communication resources on... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121591 | System and method for determining mobile telephone voice quality in a live network A system and method for determining the quality of communications provided by a plurality of mobile telephones is provided. The method may comprise, for example, receiving one or more telephone voice signals from each mobile telephone; storing the one or more teleph... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116758 | Simulating time-varying conditions in a wireless network Time-varying conditions in a wireless network are simulated using an architecture that includes an enclosure for shielding a wireless device under test (“DUT”) from electro-magnetic interference, including other wireless devices; and at least one of: (1) a commu... | 02/14/2012 |
| RE43186 | Radio network test analysis system Optimization of a cellular network is facilitated by an apparatus that performs drive test measurements of a cellular network to identify co-channel interference. The co-channel interference is identified by measuring the signal strengths at various locations within... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116759 | System and method for facilitating diagnosis and maintenance of a mobile conveyance A system for facilitating diagnosis and maintenance of a control networks on a mobile conveyance comprises one or more wireless ground stations configured to communicate over a wireless communication channel with the control network. A local area computer network re... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107949 | Selective logging of drive testing data depending on reverse link data transmission rate A method and mobile diagnostic measurement tool is described for collecting cellular network performance data. The method includes determining a current data rate for transmission of data between the measurement tool and a network node in a cellular network. The mea... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107950 | Inter-RAT/ frequency automatic neighbor relation list management In one of its aspects the technology concerns a method of operating a telecommunications system comprising a serving radio base station and a candidate radio base station. The serving radio base station comprises a radio base station to which a wireless mobile stati... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103266 | Apparatus and methods for managing battery performance of a wireless device Apparatus, methods, and programs that determine and manage battery performance characteristics of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of battery performance dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103267 | Femtocell base station with mobile station capability A communication device that includes a femtocell base station and a mobile station transmitter/receiver. The femtocell base station may provide bidirectional internet protocol (IP) communication for one or mobile devices to a cellular network. The femtocell base sta... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086229 | Alleviating mobile device overload conditions in a mobile communication system A user equipment (UE) in a mobile communications system is operated in a manner that alleviates or avoids an overload condition in the UE. This involves operating a receiver of the UE to receive one or more data blocks via a channel. In response to a user equipment ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086230 | Mobile communication method and radio base station A mobile communication method includes the steps of: transmitting, from a radio base station (eNB) to a mobile station (UE), a measurement rule designation command which designates addition or deletion of a measurement rule; transmitting, from the radio base station... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081966 | RF circuit switching circuit The RF circuit switching circuit includes N/2 first RF transfer switches connected to N input wirings, N/2 second RF transfer switches connected to N output wirings and N internal connection routes including internal wirings or a combination of a plurality of third ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068826 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmit power and incumbent protection in a cognitive radio system A cognitive radio (CR) device (208 and/or 218) avoids interference with an incumbent (207) receiver by determining maximum allowed transmit power levels of the CR device based on estimates of the incumbent signal level and transmit splatter leve... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064900 | System, method and device for testing mobile telephone call performance A system and method of testing call performance of a plurality of mobile telephones is provided. In one embodiment the method comprises storing in a memory of a test device, data for one or more test scenarios that each comprises associated test parameters for attem... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064897 | Transmitting/receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method A transmission/reception apparatus capable of preventing degradation in system capacity, improving system throughput, and minimizing power consumption of an apparatus is disclosed. In this apparatus, a propagation path determining section (131) determines a p... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064899 | System and method for multi-modal monitoring of a network A system and method for network monitoring are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network monitoring method includes determining that a caller can receive audible information via a first access device and graphical information via a second access device. The method als... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064898 | Call management in a telecommunications system A system and method of covertly monitoring a communications device, the method that includes using a separate monitoring device to monitor a monitored communications device, without any indication of the monitoring being received by the monitored communications devi... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060077 | Method and apparatus for functional testing of a base station system The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for function testing of a base station system in a wireless communication system, wherein the base station system comprises at least two antennas and at least two transceivers, and said antennas are intended to... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060078 | System for remote configuration, operation and control of an interface device A system for remote monitoring and control of remotely located equipment that minimizes wireless airtime includes an interface device coupled with the remote equipment. The interface device selectively communicates over a wireless network with a central server and/o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060076 | Real-time RSL monitoring in a web-based application A system and method for monitoring an attribute of a received signal in a wireless network having plural radios wherein one of the radios includes a monitoring module operatively connected to a second network. An attribute of one radio is monitored substantially con... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055253 | Transceiver device capable of calibration and calibration method used by the same A transceiver device capable of calibration, and a calibration method used by the transceiver device. The transceiver device includes a reference transceiver, a plurality of remaining transceivers, and a plurality of transmission calibration paths connecting the rem... | 11/08/2011 |
