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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112086 | Secondary station and method of operating the station A secondary station has a receiver capable of resolving signals received as a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of base stations during a soft handover process. This capability may, for example, be provided by a Rake receiver. In order to decode and ac... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112087 | Method and apparatus for setting up radio resource control connection A method and apparatus for establishing an RRC connection are provided, in which a UE compares the strength of a signal received from a serving cell with a threshold, upon receipt of a request for RRC connection establishment, transmits an RRC connection request mes... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112085 | Anchor selection in distributed networks Various embodiments are described relating to selecting anchor nodes among nodes in a wireless network. In an example embodiment, a topological arrangement of a first wireless node and one or more other wireless nodes neighboring to the first wireless node in a wire... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112088 | Method for compulsorily performing handover in broadband wireless communication system Disclosed is a method for enabling a mobile station existing in a serving cell area to perform a handover procedure in a broadband mobile communication system including the mobile station, a serving base station providing a service to the mobile station, and one or ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107959 | Mobile communication system and handover control method When a base station receives a report of signal power of a common pilot channel of each cell received at a mobile station, the base station converts the received signal power in the report on the basis of the transmission power of the common pilot channel of each of... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107960 | Prioritized query According to some of the preferred embodiments, a solution framework is employed that includes defining of a mechanism to run multiple queries in a single message exchange, along with a priority on a per-query basis. In some embodiments, a system for facilitating ha... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107961 | Method and system for optimizing frequency allocation during handoff A method and system is disclosed for optimizing handoff of access terminals. In particular, when (i) a given access terminal must switch from a first channel band in a first coverage area to a second channel band in order to hand off to a second coverage area, and (... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107958 | Method of updating channel information in mobile internet system, and mobile communication terminal and mobile internet system using the same A method of updating channel information in a mobile Internet system, and a mobile communication terminal and mobile Internet system using the same are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the method of updating channel information in a mobile Internet system incl... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107957 | Seamless enterprise and consumer mobility with multiple numbers Tools and techniques for seamless enterprise and consumer mobility with multiple numbers are described. The techniques provide simultaneous ringing on a mobile communication device and manage network connections between the mobile communication device and at least t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103277 | Mobile communication terminal for handover from WCDMA network to CDMA network and method therefor A handover method from a WCDMA network to a CDMA network in a system comprising a mobile communication terminal, a RNC of the WCDMA network and a BSC of the CDMA network comprises: transmitting a measurement control message for commanding cell power measurement on a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095135 | Method and apparatus for providing seamless call handoff between networks that use dissimilar transmission methods Call handoff from an 802.1x network to a cellular network, and vice versa. A wireless device that has both cellular and 802.1x capability detects the strength of a cellular signal and of an 802.1x signal. If a call is taking place over the 802.1x network and the str... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095134 | Method and apparatus for handover measurement A UE performs pilot measurements over a frequency sub-band of serving cell and adjacent cells based on pilot symbols for used in handover. UE uses channel quality measurement result to adjust frequency sub-band and periodicity of pilot measurement. In interference c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095136 | Method for determining if a first cell managed by a first base station is neighbour of a second cell managed by a second base station The present invention concerns a method for determining if a first cell managed by a first base station is neighbour of a second cell managed by a second base station, the cells being cells of wireless cellular network, the wireless cellular network comprising a tel... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090373 | Center for a mobile communication system performing diversity handover A mobile station for communicating with base stations simultaneously in diversity handover. The mobile station monitors radio condition quality corresponding to a plurality of branches, selects one or more addition branch candidates based on the monitored radio cond... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090372 | Methods and devices for determining if a handover has to be executed for a terminal The present invention concerns a method for determining if a handover of a first half-duplex terminal has to be executed from a first to a second base station. The first base station: transfers signal in the cell of the first base ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090371 | Network controller messaging for release in an unlicensed wireless communication system An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086235 | System and method for restricting mobility in wireless networks This invention provides a method, system and apparatus for controlling mobility on a wireless network, which includes retrieving a network mobility preference, the network mobility preference indicating a level of mobility service for the mobile station, the level o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086234 | Broadcast handoff between communication networks Methods (400, 500) and corresponding systems (100) for handing off between a broadcast network and a cellular network include receiving, in a cooperation platform, incoming data from a content provider. Broadcast data corresponding to the incoming data... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086236 | Methods to configure proximity indication in wireless communications systems A method and system configures proximity indication in a wireless device as part of a network handover procedure to handover the wireless device from a first radio access network (RAN) using a radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAN using a different RAT. The ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081980 | Method and system for recovering from hand-off fail for use in CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO system A multimedia mobile communication system for recovering a handoff failure comprises: a hybrid access terminal; a base station transceiver subsystem for transmitting and receiving the voice and the data; a base station a mobile switching center a 1×EV-DO transceiver... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078174 | Method and apparatus for improving mobile-terminated call set-up performance An apparatus and method for improving mobile-terminated call set-up performance comprising triggering an inter-radio access technology (IRAT) transition from a source cell to a target cell, remembering the deterministic timing of a plurality of paging occasions in t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078171 | Handoff of a mobile station from a first to a second type of wireless network Methods and apparatus for moving or transferring a mobile station from one type of wireless network to another type of wireless network are described herein. The methods may include employing a source radio access technology (RAT) device, a target RAT device, and a ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078173 | Data transfer system, approach notification system and data transfer method A data transfer system includes a data conversion storage server (3) that generates data (MD1) having a size smaller than a size of data (MD0) received from a delivery server (5) by performing a specific process on the data (MD0). ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078170 | Apparatus, method and computer program product providing fast and reliable uplink synchronization using dedicated resources for user equipment in need of synchronization A method includes determining if a user equipment has a need to establish uplink synchronization with a base station. In response to determining that the user equipment has the need to establish uplink synchronization with the base station, a determination is made i... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078172 | Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for reserving a cellular resource Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for reserving a cellular resource. According to embodiments, a method for reserving a cellular resource is provided. According to the method, a change in location is determined for a preferred cellular device. Wh... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078175 | Method for facilitating a handover of a communication device, communication device, application server for facilitating a handover of a communication device, and communication system arrangement A method for facilitating a handover of a communication device (202) active on a first radio access network (210) to a second radio access network (206) comprises while the communication device is active on the first radio access network (210... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073445 | Method for determining if a first cell managed by a first base station is neighbour of a second cell managed by a second base station The present invention concerns a method for determining neighboring condition and cell area operation of a cell area managed by a base station, the cell area being a cell area of a wireless cellular network, the wireless cellular network comprising a telecommunicati... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073446 | Radio network controller, wireless access gateway, radio communication system, and communication method for radio communication system A radio network controller outputs a context required for a terminal capable of communicating with a mobile communication network and a wireless local area network to communicate with the wireless local area network to the terminal among pieces of information input ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068833 | Candidate access router discovery An arrangement and a method is provided for discovering candidate access routers in a mobile IP (Internet Protocol) network to enable seamless IP handover of a mobile node between access routers. A server element (19), which is separate from the access router... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068834 | Intra-frequency, inter-frequency and inter-radio access technology searching for neighbor cells within a fixed time duration Techniques for searching neighbor cells within a fixed time duration are disclosed. In one embodiment, cells in a monitored list are ranked. A first subset of the ranked cells are searched during each cycle in a series of cycles, and a subset of the remainder of ran... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068832 | Multicast session handover A method and system for performing multicast broadcast handover in a wireless data network are disclosed. Each cell broadcasts administrative announcements over a logical channel to mobile terminals. The announcements indicate which multicast broadcasts are availabl... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068836 | Method and device for transferring an ongoing communication in which a mobile terminal is involved between a first and a second base stations and wherein one of the base stations is located in a moving conveyance A method and a system for transferring an ongoing communication in which a mobile terminal is involved between a first and a second base stations of a wireless cellular telecommunication network. One of the base stations is located in a moving conveyance. The first ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068837 | Wireless communications handoff method and system employing such A method for reducing a delay in a wireless communications system resulting from a handoff while mitigating a risk of premature termination of wireless communications, the method includes comparing data indicative of actual use of the wireless communications systems... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068835 | Tune-away and cross paging systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for processing wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service. This can include processes for measuring signal strength of an alternative frequency by tuning away from an existing frequency associated with ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068838 | Mobile communication device initiated hand-off based on air interface metrics A mobile communication device wirelessly transfers user communications to a first wireless base station. The mobile communication device determines a first metric based on a load indicator for the first base station. The mobile communication device identifies a seco... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064908 | Mobile communication system and mobile station performing diversity handover A mobile station for communicating with base stations simultaneously in diversity handover. The mobile station monitors radio condition quality corresponding to a plurality of branches, selects one or more addition branch candidates based on the monitored radio cond... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064910 | Proactive handover policy An exemplary system and method for determining handovers for a mobile device are disclosed. An exemplary system may generally include a handover server in communication with a communication network configured to support initiated communications from a mobile device.... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064909 | Interworking gateway for mobile nodes Systems and methods are provided that allow inter-working between communication networks for the delivery of service to mobile nodes. A gateway is provided that communicates with a femto cell to extend service to an area that otherwise does not receive coverage from... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060090 | Mobile station and handover control method A mobile station includes a handover controller. When the mobile station simultaneously communicates with a plurality of radio base stations by using first channels and communicates only with a certain one of the plurality of radio base stations by using a second co... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060092 | Apparatus and method for handover between heterogeneous systems An apparatus and method for enhanced heterogeneous network handover using a media independent handover scheme is provided. A heterogeneous network handover method of the present invention includes generating, at a mobile node, self-location information, transmitting... | 11/15/2011 |
