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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116779 | Base station, mobile station and radio channel condition reporting method A base station includes a group determination unit grouping mobile stations residing within a cell and a radio channel condition reception unit receiving information indicative of a radio channel condition transmitted from a mobile station at a transmission timing o... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116778 | Method and system for controlling a plurality of transmitters Mobile station transmits a scheduling request message to base station to request a grant for transmitting packets in a cellular mobile communication network. Base station transmits at least a deactivation scheduling grant message to mobile station to deactivate pack... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112092 | Mobile station apparatus, program for controlling thereof and data transmitting method In case that an uplink grant from a base station apparatus is detected on PDCCH, a data designated by the uplink grant, channel state information measured at the time of transmission are transmitted by PUSCH as an uplink transmission signal. Then, in case that a not... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112091 | Allocating radio resources in mobile communications system Allocating radio resources in a mobile communication system, comprises transmitting first information to a network, wherein the first information is utilized by the network to allocate radio resources to a mobile terminal for allowing communication between the mobil... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112090 | Channel assignment method, radio communication system and channel structure in radio section In a radio communication system, a user terminal transmits a reservation packet to a base station using a common control channel (1), and the base station assigns an uplink data channel to the user terminal according to the reservation packet, and assigns a f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107967 | Relay station in mobile communication system and relay transmission channel setting method Provided is a relay station capable of reducing control information required for allocating a relay transmission channel in a mobile communication system. The relay station (100) includes: a demodulation unit (103) and a decoding unit (104) for ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107966 | Cognitive radio communication method using dynamically allocated common control channel information A cognitive radio base station may transmit, for each channel, common control channel information to a plurality of cognitive radio terminals at different points in time, respectively. Accordingly, the cognitive radio base station may receive a channel allocation re... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103282 | Methods and apparatus for allocating resources in a distributed environment based on network assessment Methods and apparatus are provided for allocating resources in a distributed environment, such as a packet network, based on a network assessment. One or more resources are allocated to a request in a distributed environment by identifying one or more potential reso... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099099 | Methods and apparatus related to assignment in a wireless communications system Methods and apparatus related to assignment in a wireless communications system are described. A mobile is assigned an identifier and a mask value, e.g., as part of a state transition message. The mobile uses the assigned identifier and/or the assigned mask value in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099100 | Communication control system The present invention provides a communication control system which can prevent unnecessary communication connections while ensuring user-friendliness when 1 to N communication is performed. The communication control system judges whether an area code of a mo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095140 | Regrouping wireless devices The present invention provides a method of switching a number of wireless devices to a common channel. The method comprises automatically broadcasting location coordinates for an initiator wireless devices to the other wireless devices in response to receiving an in... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090380 | Method and apparatus for radio resource control profile creation in a UMTS network A method for creating a radio resource control profile for a radio resource allocation or a state-transition profile having the steps of receiving a parameter associated with a user equipment (UE), associating the parameter with the radio resource control profile fo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086240 | Data communication system using a reserve request and four frequencies to enable transmitting data packets which can include a count value and termination indication information A data communication system wherein four independent frequencies provide for transmissions between a communication controller and at least one node including a first node. The four independent frequencies include: an aligning signal sent on a first frequency, a requ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081983 | Method and apparatus for transmitting high rate packet data over underutilized virtual circuits A method for communicating data in a wireless communications system having a base station communicating to at least one of a plurality of terminals over a set of carrier frequencies, the method comprising periodically monitoring the carrier energy level of each said... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081984 | UL/DL scheduling for full bandwidth utilization A method may include receiving, by a user equipment incapable of transmitting and receiving simultaneously, a schedule to transmit data on an uplink, detecting, by the user equipment, whether there is data to be transmitted on the uplink, and receiving, by the user ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078185 | User group-based adaptive soft frequency reuse method to mitigate downlink interference for wireless cellular networks A novel soft fractional frequency reuse (FFR) technique is disclosed. The novel FFR technique includes reuse partition and power restriction, dynamic user grouping, channel quality indicator feedback based on reuse, and a user group-based interference aware schedule... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078183 | System for wireless channel assignment A system for wireless channel assignment is disclosed, applying different assignment strategies to a plurality of nominated cells belonging to a Base Station Controller, particularly in A-interface link sharing. Channel assignment strategy information for the nomina... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078184 | Method and apparatus having improved handling of state transitions A method, in a wireless communications device, for transitioning between communication states, the wireless communications device compliant for use in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), the method comprising: checking for radio bearer mapping infor... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073451 | System and method for wireless resource allocation, and base station used therefor In a mobile communication system, useless allocation of wireless resources is avoided and utilization efficiency of wireless resources is improved. A base station operating section of a base station is provided with respective functions for: measuring an RTWP which ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073452 | System and method utilizing a cognitive transceiver for ad hoc networking The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for utilizing unused portions of an allocated frequency spectrum in a wireless communications system that broadcasts content to wireless stations. A first wireless station may communicate with a second wireless ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073450 | Method and apparatus for de-activating hybrid automatic repeat request process in a wireless communications system A method for handling de-activation of a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process used in a mobile of a wireless communications system includes receiving a Primary Absolute Grant (AG) message indicating to de-activate the first HARQ process, de-activatin... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068843 | Method for increasing system capacity by transmitting control Signal for MBMS data by combining RLC and PDCP messages A method for transmitting a control signal for multimedia service data of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) includes MBMS service data that can be transmitted in a wireless system providing various types of MBMS service. An MBMS scheduling block incl... | 11/29/2011 |
| RE42956 | Method for providing multiple services and apparatus for the same The present invention provides a method for providing multiple services and an apparatus for the same in a wireless packet data communication system. It guarantees various qualities of the services to a plurality of users by determining priorities of the mobile stat... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064916 | Base station device, mobile station device, control information transmission method, control information reception method and program In a radio system which allocates resources using as units resource blocks which are formed by frequency components and time components, control information for mobile station devices, and identification information which is used to identify a format for a control i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064918 | Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, and mobile station apparatus A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal, wherein the base station apparatus: transmits, to ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064917 | Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, and mobile station apparatus A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to a base station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal, wherein the base station apparatus: transmits, to ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064919 | Radio communication base station device and control channel arrangement method Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050685 | Apparatus and method for allocating uplink radio resource in wideband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for UpLink (UL) radio resource allocation in a wideband wireless communication system are provided. In a method of operating a Relay Station (RS) for UpLink (UL) radio resource allocation in a wideband wireless communication system, the metho... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045990 | Maintenance of channel usage in a wireless communication system Data is accessed from a network via a wireless communication link. A determination is made as to whether payload data has been received from a subscriber's terminal. If so, then a request is sent for a first set of traffic channels, and the payload data is transmitt... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045991 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving common channel in a cellular wireless communication system supporting scalable bandwidth A method is provided for transmitting a common channel in a cellular communication system that supports a scalable system bandwidth and uses multiple access technology. The transmission method includes determining a system bandwidth of a cell by comparing a receptio... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041361 | Method and device of network resource release processing A method of network resource release processing is provided, which includes the following steps. After user equipment (UE) using idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism registers to two 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication networks, when the... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036672 | Methods and apparatus related to resource allocation in a wireless communications system Methods and apparatus of efficient communication of resource allocation are described. A base station transmits a resource assignment message, e.g., a state transition message, to a wireless terminal including a first part, e.g., a base station assigned wireless ter... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036673 | Status notification method in wireless communication apparatus A call connection request from an access terminal is suppressed in a state in which the base station judges that the call connection is impossible, thereby suppressing a waste of the wireless band and the generation of noise. A BCMCS management block of an access po... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036674 | Inter-cell interference prediction for frequency resource allocation A method predicts resource allocations in a wireless network including a set of base stations (BSs). Each BS is in a cell, and serves a set of mobile stations. A sequence and rule of resource allocations are defined for all of the BSs. Previous resource allocations ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032144 | Multi-carrier communication device and feedback information communication method A multicarrier communication apparatus that is capable of suppressing interference of feedback information with other channels and alleviating a reduction in an uplink capacity. In PL signal reception section (260) of this apparatus, PL signal extraction sect... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032146 | Radio resource management in multihop relay networks The embodiments balance wireless communication bandwidth capacity in a channel one or more cascading wireless communication links in a wireless communication cell, and manage the wireless communication bandwidth capacity in the channel across two or more virtual cel... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032145 | Restrictive reuse set management algorithm for equal grade of service on FL transmission Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate restrictive reuse resource set management with equal grade of service on forward link transmission. User throughput over a resource reuse set can be estimated, and an iterative method can be employed to realloc... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027687 | Method of determining an access mode of cell in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and UE providing wireless communication services, and a method of determining the operation mode of a base station, that is, the connection mode (access mode) of a cell, based on which UE's connection ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027686 | Method and apparatus for allocating a channel to a wireless interface An apparatus and a method for allocating a channel capable of minimizing interference between channels in a node on an Ad-hoc network using a plurality of wireless interfaces for communication are provided. The apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives infor... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027688 | Method and device of network resource release processing A method of network resource release processing is provided, which includes the following steps. After user equipment (UE) using idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) mechanism registers to two 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication networks, when the... | 09/27/2011 |
