Bizarre Patents
A Christmas stocking having illumination means associated therewith for signalling the arrival of Santa Claus.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181080 | Adaptive HARQ control for EDCH The present invention relates to a method for transmitting of data frames from user equipment to a base station in a wireless telecommunication network. The method comprises an error control step adapted to retransmit the data frame from the user equipment to the ba... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176377 | Method for safely transmitting short ACK/NACK bitmaps in ARQ process inside edge compliant systems A fast ARQ mechanism operated inside 3GPP GERAN mobile radio systems uses short bitmaps, spanning only few octets, in the header of a RLC/MAC block conveying relevant ACK/NACK signalling that is transmitted either in the uplink or downlink direction, indifferently. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151157 | Method of encoding/decoding using low density check code matrix A method of encoding data using a parity check matrix, a method of decoding encoded data, and a data retransmission method using the same are disclosed. A method of encoding data by LDPC code using a parity check matrix includes variably selecting a specific sub-mat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151156 | Repetitive transmissions in multi-carrier based wireless access techniques Repetitive transmissions in multi-carrier based wireless access techniques may be achieved by providing multiple cyclic delay values for a plurality of carriers, performing a cyclic delay procedure using the multiple cyclic delay values according to the number of re... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140929 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving the Hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK signal in mobile communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Acknowledge/Negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) signal in a mobile communication system. The apparatus and method distribute a CDM segment, to which an ACK/NACK signal is mapped,... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8112688 | Data-transmission control method and transmission device A data-transmission control method is implemented when transmitting data after dividing the data into a plurality of blocks and performing error correction when performing data transmission. The method includes obtaining additional information indicating a result of... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103929 | Apparatus and method for transmitting forward/reverse ACK/NACK in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for efficient ACKnowledgment/NonACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) transmission in order to transmit forward data for multiple layers and support Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest (HARQ) for each layer in a mobile communication s... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8032809 | Retransmission and delayed ACK timer management logic for TCP protocol Provided is an apparatus for detection timeout of each channel, which is a socket connection, in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Offload Engine (TOE) using TCP accelerating hardware, and a method thereof. The timer managing apparatus of the TOE using the TCP a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8015467 | Communication system, communication apparatus and communication method In an interpretation interval INTALL used in a communication system, there are provided a future-direction interval INTF associated with a 5-bit sequence number (LastSendAckNum) transmitted after LastSendAckNum ±0, and a past-direction interva... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006159 | 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... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8006158 | Hybrid automatic repeat request method in a mobile communication system and transmission/reception method and apparatus using the same A Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) method performed in a receiver of a mobile communication system. The HARQ method includes receiving from a transmitter an initial transmission subpacket among a plurality of subpackets; sending a request for transmission of a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7987403 | Method and apparatus for encoding feedback signal A method and apparatus for encoding feedback signals is provided. The method includes: encoding feedback signals of three carriers to output a bit sequence; and transmitting the bit sequence on a High Speed-Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH). The step of ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7966541 | Signal encoding method and device, method for encoding joint feedback signal A signal encoding method and device and a method for encoding a joint feedback signal are provided. The signal encoding method includes the following steps. When two carriers are configured with multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), Hybrid Automatic Repeat Requ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7945836 | Method and apparatus for reducing signaling overhead in a communication system using hybrid automatic repeat request A transmitting unit combines a slot identifier (SI) and a block identifier (BI) in each header that is transmitted with the data to allow a receiving unit to associate previously received data blocks with retransmissions, or retries, of the same respective data bloc... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7921347 | Method and apparatus for performing automatic retransmission request in a mobile communication system A method and an apparatus are provided for performing Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) in a mobile communication system including an ARQ layer and a Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) layer. The method includes receiving from an ARQ receiving (Rx) entity a status report indica... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7904777 | Method and system for generating block acknowledgements in wireless communications The present invention provides a method and a system for generating a block acknowledgment for aggregated MSDUs (A-MSDU) transmitted from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel. Upon receiving the A-MSDU, the receiver generates a MSDU Block Acknowledgment (M... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904778 | 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... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7827459 | Communications protocol The present invention relates to an improved communications protocol which increases the efficiency of transmission in return channels on a multi-channel slotted Alohas system by incorporating advanced error correction algorithms, selective retransmission protocols ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810009 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packet data using HARQ in a mobile communication system A system and method is provided for transmitting packet data in a base station of a wireless communication system using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme. The method includes determining a HARQ scheme for use, from among a plurality of HARQ schemes inc... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7765451 | Retransmitting apparatus and method using relay station in a multi-hop network An apparatus and method for retransmitting data using an RS in a multi-hop network are provided. When retransmitting data in a BS, the BS transmits data and activates a timer therefor. The BS monitors receipt of a response message for the data until the timer expire... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7653857 | Power control of packet data transmission in cellular network A transmitter for a packet radio network, including means for transmitting a signal including data packets to a receiver, means for receiving acknowledgement messages from the receiver, each acknowledgement message indicating whether or not a data packet was receive... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647541 | Method and apparatus for assigning hybrid-automatic repeat request processes A method and apparatus for assigning automatic repeat request (ARQ)/hybrid-automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to support enhanced uplink (EU) data transmissions. After parameters associated with the ARQ/H-ARQ proces... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7539917 | Acknowledgement signaling for automatic repeat request mechanisms in wireless networks The present invention purposes an enhanced acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment signaling applicable to automatic repeat request mechanisms. The automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanisms is operable with a sender of data packets. The signaling comprises a number of ACK... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7461318 | Communication system realizing USB communications between a host computer and its peripheral device and a communication controller transmitting a USB signal under the USB standard A two-way transmission system of the present invention is arranged in such a manner that, when a host-side controller confirms the receipt of an IN packet from a USB host, the host-side controller transfers the IN packet to a function-side controller, and receives a... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7447969 | Data transmitting/receiving system and method thereof A data transmitter transmitting a data packet containing identifier information including a kind of data, a sequence of data, and/or a packet generating sequence. A receiver extracting a packet number and the identifier information for an error-receipt occurring dat... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444443 | Method of repeating data transmission between network devices by timing a first predetermined period after previous first data transmission A method is provided for transmitting data from a transmitting device (121) to a receiving device (125). The transmitting device transmits a first data frame (200) to a receiving device a first time (3100). Then it consecutivel... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444578 | Data unit sender and method of controlling the same A data unit sender and method of controlling a data unit sender are presented, in which a time-out monitoring procedure implements a first, longer time-out period (SRTO), and a second, shorter time-out period (QRTO), where a retransmission is executed after the shor... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437648 | Operation of a forward link acknowledgement channel for the reverse link data An acknowledgement method in a wireless communication system. Initially, a reverse supplemental channel (R-SCH) frame is received at a base station. The base station then transmits an acknowledgement (ACK) signal if quality of the received R-SCH frame is indicated a... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424661 | Packet transmission system in wireless LAN A packet transmitting apparatus comprises a wireless LAN base station and wireless terminals connected to the wireless LAN base station through the wireless LAN. From the wireless LAN base station to the respective wireless terminals, data packets are transmitted in... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424000 | Time slot reservation scheme in wireless meshed networks A communication system comprises a wireless switch, a plurality of wired access ports and a plurality of wireless access ports. The plurality of wired access ports are coupled to the wireless switch via a wired connection and are configured to receive data over the ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409608 | Pseudo-random wait-state and pseudo-random latency components Methods and apparatus are provided for testing logic, particularly arbitration logic on a programmable chip. Secondary components on a programmable chip are configured with delay mechanisms operable to pseudo-randomly delay responses to requests received using arbit... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409470 | Determining configuration data in connection with dynamic RDF Dynamically creating a communication path between first and second storage devices, includes creating a connection to a source volume on the first storage device and indicating that the source volume is not ready to transmit data on the communication path, after suc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404132 | ARQ method with adaptive transmittal data block positions In a communication system a transmission-end input data flow with serially successive data is transmitted via a time-variant transmission channel. The transmission-end input data flow is divided into individual words. An a-priori reliability value is determined for ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400689 | Data reception method and apparatus including reception of data in a first transmission and a retransmission P/S conversion section 302 performs parallel/serial conversion of data sequences #1 through #4 input in parallel, in accordance with control by assignment control section 303, so that data to a higher-priority communication terminal is as... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395481 | Data link layer tunneling technique for high-speed data in a noisy wireless environment In accordance with the invention, a data link layer tunneling technique is disclosed for improving the throughput of high speed data in a noisy wireless environment. The method for recovering lost frames transmitted between a packet sending unit and a packet receivi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392460 | Mobile communication system and signal processing method thereof A method of mobile communication including a transmitter having multiple transmitters and a receiver having multiple receivers. The method includes adding a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code to a data block to be transmitted and spatially segmenting the data block ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389469 | Bus systems, apparatuses, and methods of operating a bus Data transmission between transmitting/receiving nodes in a bus system may be controlled based on an error check of received data. When an error in the received data is detected, the transmitting node may cease data transmission, and other nodes, which may not have ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388919 | Dynamic wireless link adaptation A system that adapts wireless link parameters for a wireless communication link. A measure is determined of errors occurring in communication over a wireless link. In a case that the measure of errors corresponds to more errors than a first predetermined threshold, ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388852 | Physical layer assisted retransmission The present invention provides a fast and efficient retransmission technique, which allows a link control layer to request retransmission of frames upon receiving information from an underlying physical layer that an unsuccessful attempt to transmit data was detecte... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376426 | Memory management in mobile network A radio network element, including means for receiving data packets from a user equipment in a soft handover connection, means for determining whether the received data blocks have been received successfully or unsuccessfully, means for running a retransmission proc... | 05/20/2008 |
