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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8351966 | Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8135425 | System and method for communicating data over a radio frequency voice channel A system or method for communicating data over a voice channel between a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a silence detector, coupled to the transmitter, that identifies a pause in voice traffic that is to be transmitted over t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8064941 | Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046016 | Indicating availability of RF resources at a peer base station in a two-way peer-to-peer communication system A method for indicating availability of outbound RF resources (ORFRs) of peer base stations is provided that uses peer busy indicator (PBI) messages transmitted from one peer base station to other peer base stations. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7957755 | Mobile station, radio access network apparatus, mobile communication system and broadcast information transmitting and receiving method A mobile station for establishing a signaling control channel and a shared data channel between a radio access network apparatus and the mobile station to perform communication includes discontinuous reception means configured to perform discontinuous reception of b... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7702345 | Voice data RF disk drive IC An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a disk driver interface, an RF section, and an interface module. The disk drive interface is coupled to the baseband processing module and to an off-IC disk drive, wherein the disk driver interface fa... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7536193 | Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7423997 | Group scheduling in wireless communication systems A wireless communication network (100) wherein information is communicated in frames comprising multiple sub-frames, including grouping a terminal in first and second groups, assigning the first and second groups to less than all sub-frames in a frame, assign... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403497 | Data transport between a media gateway and server A system and method for reducing latency includes receiving at a gateway time division multiplexed data from multiple sender devices, the time division multiplexed data including payloads. The method also includes a generated packet that includes the payloads from t... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7389088 | Method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same A method of controlling signal power level and a Bluetooth device for performing the same are provided. The method for controlling a power level of a signal to be transmitted to a remote Bluetooth device via a Bluetooth link, comprises: a local Bluetooth device for ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369849 | Method and system for registering an in-vehicle cellular phone The invention provides a method of registering a cellular phone in a mobile vehicle while in a quiescent mode. Whether timer-based registration is enabled is determined. Whether one of a counter or an interval timer has reached a predetermined threshold is determine... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363047 | Apparatus and method for establishing feedback in a broadcast or multicast service A method and apparatus for establishing feedback channels in an MBMS (multimedia broadcast/multicast service) for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) by selectively establishing RRC connections with terminals that are capable of transmitting uplink feed... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346349 | Method for controlling terminal fault corrections in cellular system This invention addresses the problem of latency of response regarding information relying on an IMEISV from a CN. This is possible by defining the early RRC connection bits' indication to determine the supported signalling schemes and providing the IMEISV informatio... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7330733 | Method and apparatus for reducing paging-related delays for anticipated target mobile stations The need to decrease paging-related delays in wireless systems (100) is addressed by embodiments herein. A RAN (201) anticipates that an MS (120) is likely to be a target of communication not yet initiated. In one embodiment, a traffic channel i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323970 | Method and system for remote interaction with a vehicle via wireless communication A telemetry system coupled to a vehicle can communicate with a remote site using the overhead control channels of a wireless network, such as a cellular mobile radiotelephone network. The telemetry system can monitor or control aspects of the vehicle's operations ba... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321764 | Method for processing call in mobile communication terminal supporting multi-mode telecommunication system Disclosed is a method for processing a call in a mobile communication terminal supporting a multi-mode telecommunication system, wherein it is checked whether or not the mobile communication terminal is in a conversation state upon receiving a call release order mes... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310509 | Software and protocol structure for an automated user notification system The present invention provides an automated user notification system for monitoring user items and notifying a user when selected conditions occur. A first portion of the notification system comprises a network operations center (NOC). The NOC stores user informatio... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308266 | Method and system for peer-to-peer communication management in wireless communication networks The present invention provides a wireless communication system capable of managing peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. In one embodiment of the invention, upon receiving a request for initiating a call, the system determines whether P2P communication can be establish... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7299062 | Apparatus and method for controlling access to network in wireless communication system In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and method for managing an uplink communication between a network and a plurality of terminals is achieved by transmitting a response condition parameter from the network to the plurality of terminals subscribing to a... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293705 | Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and c... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283832 | Method and system for establishing wireless peer-to-peer communications The present invention provides a wireless network system for establishing peer-to-peer communication between mobile terminals. Upon determining that peer-to-peer communication can be established between two mobile terminal, the wireless network system transmits to e... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280835 | Mobile communication system and mobile communication method An estimator 120 of a mobile station 100a of the present invention estimates traveling speed information which is a value variable with either a traveling speed of the mobile station or a variation in the traveling speed. A comparison unit 13... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277423 | Method and system for buffering media to reduce apparent latency in initiating a packet-based real-time media session A method and system for buffering media at an initiating station. In response to a user request to initiate a packet-based real-time media session, such as a “push-to-talk” session for instance, the initiating station acquires a data connection. The station then... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269430 | Frame format for high data throughput wireless local area network transmissions A frame format for high data throughput wireless local area network transmissions includes a first preamble segment, a second preamble segment, and a variable length data segment. The first preamble segment includes a first training sequence, a second training seque... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266372 | Radio network controller and radio communications method A radio network controller can set up a connection with a mobile station located in a specific cell under control of the radio network controller. The radio network controller includes a connection setup request transmitter configured to transmit a connection setup ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258276 | Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and c... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254397 | Method and apparatus for a reverse link supplemental channel scheduling An apparatus and method for communications of scheduling information of reverse link transmissions are disclosed. A base station controller determines scheduling of a reverse link supplemental channel transmission for a mobile station in a communication system (1... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246327 | Interactive, menu-driven interface to database An interactive, menu-driven interface to a cellular site information database is disclosed. The user may enter a form name such as channel, cell, trkgrp, trkmem, etc. into a form selection screen. The user may enter the operation desired to be performed on the form ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7218619 | Call admission method in CDMA mobile communication system A call admission method considering call characteristics and the service level of a subscriber terminal in a CDMA mobile communication system is provided. When a new call is requested in a situation where it cannot be admitted, a call being serviced with a lower ser... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209460 | Apparatus and method for assigning subcarrier in OFDMA communication system A subcarrier assignment apparatus and a subcarrier assignment method, in which each of a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) constituting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication system provides services in the capacity of a serving BS to ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7184705 | Distributed MAC in an uncoordinated radio environment In a communication network having a plurality of units and a distributed MAC protocol, wherein data is exchanged between units during at least some of the time slots in a succession of time slots, a method is provided for establishing a desired network configuration... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184783 | Method and system for transmitting character messages in mobile communication terminal during conversation by telephone A method for transmitting a character message in a mobile communication terminal during a conversation by telephone comprises the steps of setting the mobile communication terminal to a character message-transmitting/receiving mode. The character message-transmittin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7170943 | Control channel for a wireless digital subscriber line system A user control channel for a wireless digital subscriber line systems and the like, or other communications systems which can benefit from a control channel which provides a low data rate connection between stations on an ongoing basis, makes efficient use of transm... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165720 | Radio frequency identification method and system of distributing products A method and system for vending products from a defined area, such as a micro-warehouse with a door. The method includes fitting each product with a radio frequency identification tag, positioning the plurality of products in a micro-warehouse, sensing opening and c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155222 | Method for performing RR-level registration in a wireless communication system Techniques to reduce the amount of registration required by a mobile station in a wireless communication system, especially if the registration zones are defined to be small areas. In one scheme, a mobile station registers (e.g., at RR-level) with a network entity (... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151943 | System for communicating messages via a forward overhead control channel for a programmable logic control device Communicating commands and/or data to a remote controller, such as a programmable logic controller, coupled to a cellular communications device. Each cellular communications device can monitor the cellular network control channel for a pair of target pages within a ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148801 | Article locator system A system and method for locating objects such as people, pets, and personal articles is described. A transceiver is attached to the person, animal, or item to be tracked and a handheld locator device is employed to transmit a locator signal containing an address cod... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139588 | Method of switching communication mode to voice communication in response to voice communication request during data communication in mobile station and system for managing service using the same Disclosed herein are a method of switching a communication mode to voice communication in response to a voice communication request during data communication in a mobile station and a system for managing a service using the same. According to the method and service ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7127247 | Radio communication system A radio communication system has means for enabling the control channels associated with a data channel transmitting packet data with a low duty cycle to be switched to a dormant state or interrupted entirely. This reduces the excessive overhead that such control ch... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117001 | Simultaneous voice and data communication over a wireless network A system, method and computer readable medium for communicating data over a voice channel on a wireless device (300) is disclosed. The method on a wireless device (300) includes establishing an audio connection with a second device and providing an int... | 10/03/2006 |
