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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190959 | Wireless communication system, terminal and base station A non-terminated packet is transmitted, by utilizing a spatial layer responded with an ACK, which is assumed as a released layer. Alternatively, a non-terminated packet is transmitted by using a released layer and an original spatial layer in combination. Alternativ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190958 | Error correction for a persistent resource allocation Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station can allocate persistent resources to a client station, and can associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185792 | Data-transmission device data-reception device and data-transmission-and-reception system A data-transmission device dividing video data into packets and transmitting the packet to a data-reception device requesting the video data includes a unit generating transmission packets based on the video data, a unit setting importance for each of the generated ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181079 | Data transmission with HARQ and interference mitigation Techniques for transmitting data with hybrid automatic retransmission (HARQ) and interference mitigation are described. In one design, a transmitter processes a packet of data in accordance with a rate and sends at least one transmission of the packet to a receiver ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181078 | Methods and system for simplified SAS error recovery Methods and systems for simplified error recovery in a SAS device. A SAS device (e.g., a SAS/SSP target device such as a storage device) enhanced in accordance with features and aspects hereof NAKs a received frame that has an error and then NAKS all subsequently re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181077 | Methods and devices for the dynamic management of transmission errors by network points of interconnections The disclosure describes transferring at least one data packet in a network from at least one server to a client through a point of interconnection. The point of interconnection executes a process of: receiving from the client at least one configuration map specifyi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181076 | Method for retransmitting a data sequence according to channel condition in a wireless communications network Retransmitting a data sequence over a wireless network according to channel conditions proceeds by transmitting a first transmitting signal representing the data using a first set of beamforming weighting vectors generated according to a first channel condition. A r... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176376 | Optimal error protection coding for MIMO ACK/NACK/POST information Error protection based on a nonlinear code set may be used in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio communications system. A decoder decodes received MIMO data streams and generates an automatic repeat request (ARQ) message for data units received for the MI... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171362 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for HARQ buffer size reduction Apparatus, methods and computer program products implement HARQ buffer size reduction by storing successfully received blocks of a multi-block signal in a code block buffer and only storing unsuccessfully received blocks of the multi-block signal in the HARQ buffer.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171363 | Method and device for counting transmission times of data unit, transmission device, and computer program A method for counting correctly substantial transmission times of a data unit such as an RLC-PDU even if the data unit is divided before being transmitted is provided. The method includes the steps of preparing a counter for the RLC-PDU (#503), making a stora... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171366 | Method of retransmission control in wireless relay system, wireless relay station, and wireless base station If a reception result from an MS for the previous transmission data is a reception failure, second allocation information for retransmitting the previous transmission data is generated by an RS based on allocation information on a wireless resource for transmission ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171364 | System and method for power outage and restoration notification in an advanced metering infrastructure network A method and system are provided to transmit a meter power status. The method includes recognizing a power status change at a meter. The method includes, if the meter is scheduled to transmit first, transmitting a notification message to at least one neighboring met... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171365 | Communication apparatus and method thereof This is disclosed a communication apparatus. A receiving unit receives plural data frames which are transmitted from other communication apparatus. An error detection unit checks whether each data frame is received correctly or incorrectly. A determination unit esti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161342 | Forward and reverse shifting selective HARQ combining scheme for OFDMA systems A method and apparatus for combining retransmitted hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) messages at different stages in an OFDM/OFDMA receiver are provided. A combination of different types of HARQ combiners may be designed into the receiver and selected on a per-... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161341 | Method of transmitting control information in wireless communication system and transmission window updating method using the same A method of transmitting control information in a wireless communication system and transmission window updating method using the same are disclosed, by which transmission efficiency in a transmitting side can be enhanced. The present invention includes the steps of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151154 | Method and a transmitter/receiver for reduced signaling in a retransmission system using hybrid automatic repeat The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver for a mobile communication system. The basic idea of the present invention is to target the number of HARQ transmissions that is required to be able to decode the transmitted data successfully and to only... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151155 | Packet Re-transmission controller for block acknowledgement in a communications system A re-transmit processor for a wireless communication system includes a pointer memory which contains pointers associated with particular packet data in a host memory. The re-transmit processor directs data associated with the pointers to be applied to a media access... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145969 | Quality manager and method for use in a digital content delivery system The invention provides a quality manager for use in a digital content delivery system. The digital content delivery system comprises a plurality of user devices, a source unit connected through a communication network to the user devices for delivering digital conte... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140928 | Radio communications apparatus and method used in a mobile communications system A radio communications apparatus having a retransmission function that has a determination portion configured to receive an error detection result obtained for a first packet transmitted to a destination apparatus and determine in a first sub-layer whether the error... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140927 | Method and system for reliable multicast data transmission Provided is a method and system for reliably multicasting a data transmission from a server to one or more clients, which may be connected via a control channel and a multicast data channel. In one example, the method includes sending a first data transmission to th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136004 | Radio communication apparatus and method used in mobile communication system A radio communication apparatus including a retransmission control function, includes: determination means configured to determine whether a result of error detection performed in a communication partner side for a first packet after transmitting the first packet to... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132068 | Dual receiving window method and apparatus for automatic retransmission request A method for enhancing data transmission efficiency in a wireless communications system includes using a first receiving window and a second receiving window in a receiver side of an entity operating in Acknowledgement Mode, wherein the first receiving window provid... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132069 | Selective HARQ combining scheme for OFDM/OFDMA systems A method and apparatus for combining retransmitted hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) messages at different stages in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)/orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) receiver are provided. The type of HA... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132070 | Using different physical interface to request retransmission of packet lost on unidirectional interface Packets detected to be lost from a unidirectional interface such as an ATSC tuner are requested from the source or a peer using a different physical interface. The packets may be retransmitted for reception over either interface. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127194 | Method and apparatus for improving hybrid automatic repeat request operation in a wireless communications system In order to avoid unknown behavior of a user equipment, the present invention provides a method of improving Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, known as HARQ, operation for a network in a wireless communications system. The method includes adding a HARQ information in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127193 | Methods and apparatus to reduce errors during a re-transmission Methods and apparatus to reduce errors during a re-transmission performed by a communication module are disclosed. An example method includes detecting an error in received data, predicting a time interval that is expected to be substantially error-free, and transmi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127195 | Replacement messages for identifying and preventing errors during the transmission of realtime-critical data A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112687 | Systems and methods for mitigating impulse noise Various embodiments for mitigating impulse noise are disclosed that cooperatively use impulse noise statistics to utilize retransmission, forward error correction (FEC), and blanking to mitigate the effects of a wide variety of impulse noise sources. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108746 | Radio communications apparatus and radio communications method A disclosed radio communications apparatus performs at least an automatic repeat request control and performs radio communications using a frame that occupies predetermined plural frequency bands. This apparatus includes a reception portion that receives feedback in... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108747 | Data repair The invention relates to a method for data repair in a system capable of one-to-many transmission. The method comprises transmitting data from a sender to at least one receiver and provides for various sender driven or receiver driven repair methods of missing data.... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099643 | Minimizing slot wastage using overlapping HARQ regions in OFDMA WiMAX system A method and system for minimizing slot wastage by overlapping HARQ regions in a communication system. A control region allocation (CRA) utility defines a group of HARQ regions for transmission of control data. A HARQ region definition includes a starting symbol and... | 01/17/2012 |
| RE43071 | Data transmission A method and system for large data transfer between a sender and a receiver. The sender transmits to the receiver a plurality of data packets in sequence. The time elapsed for each of the plurality of data packets after transmission of said each of the plurality of ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8091004 | Inter-packet selective symbol mapping in a joint incremental redundancy and symbol mapping diversity system An integrated incremental redundancy symbol mapping diversity system for a communication device. The integrated incremental redundancy symbol mapping diversity system includes a transmitter. The transmitter packetizes a retransmission packet according to a modulatio... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086927 | MIMO transmitting apparatus, MIMO receiving apparatus, and retransmitting method A MIMO transmitting apparatus that achieves a flexible control in accordance with variation of a propagation environment to reduce the number of retransmissions is disclosed. An intra-code-word interleaver performs an interleave process on bits included in symbols t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082478 | Retransmission of erroneous data A method for retransmission of erroneous data in a communications system includes receiving data blocks at a receiver that have been generated in a transmitter by the use of an error correcting code. The received data blocks are decoded by a linear programming algor... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078931 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving broadcast data in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a broadcast physical layer packet in a mobile communication system supporting multi-slot transmission and hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) are provided. The method comprises initially transmitting the broadcast physical... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074137 | Method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request processes per transmission time interval A method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI) are disclosed. A transmitter and a receiver include a plurality of H-ARQ processes to transmit and receive multiple transport blocks (T... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074138 | Decoding apparatus and method thereof In a decoding apparatus in a portable Internet terminal, a channel encoded symbol received from a transmitter is decoded by one of a chase-combining scheme and a code-combining scheme selected based on an ID value of the subpacket indicating a start position of the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074139 | Communication method and communication device A request change unit outputs a command as a request under control of a judgment control unit. A response condition determination unit determines a condition that is to be matched by a correct response which is to be returned from the other device-in-communication i... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074140 | User equipment using hybrid automatic repeat request A user equipment comprises a transmitter and an adaptive modulation and coding controller. The transmitter is configured to transmit data over an air interface in a single transmission time interval with a first specified modulation and coding scheme, where the sing... | 12/06/2011 |
