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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189596 | Method for the mapping of packet flows to bearers in a communication system The invention relates to a method for the mapping of packet flows onto bearers in a communication system. The establishment of a session between a terminal and a remote terminal is initiated. Information on the session and packet flows associated with it is received... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189537 | Method for reconfiguring radio link in wireless communication system There is provided a method for enabling a user equipment to reconfigure a radio link in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a radio link reconfiguration message by a higher layer, requesting a lower layer to respond to the radio link recon... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189524 | Method for cell selection in a radio access network A method for cell selection in a radio access network covering a geographical area divided into a plurality of cells, the method comprising: searching for a cell on a frequency; checking to see if the cell is a barred cell; and conditional on identifying the cell as... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189555 | Communications methods and apparatus for supporting communications with peers using multiple antenna patterns Methods and apparatus for communicating information, e.g., peer discovery information, to peer communications devices using multiple antenna patterns at different times are described. One exemplary method includes transmitting first peer discovery information during... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189567 | Method and nodes for registering a terminal A method and nodes are provided for registering a terminal. The terminal is capable of connecting in two distinct networks. The registration process for the terminal maps an identity and traffic handling policies of the terminal in a first network with an address pr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189665 | Editing apparatus, editing method, editing program, and editing system An editing process is to be properly performed for video data that have been compression-encoded using inter-frame compression. Identification information that identifies a device that has recorded the stream file is extracted from the stream file that stores the vi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189466 | Messaging interchange system Machine-readable codes are read, decoded and resolved by a messaging system in order to perform a desired function. If the code is not native to that (home) messaging system, then a resolution request is made to a central messaging interchange system to determine wh... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189508 | Methods and apparatus for peer discovery assist Methods and apparatus related to peer, network or service discovery in a mobile wireless system, such as an ad hoc peer-to-peer network, are described. Transmission of discovery information, such as upper layer discovery information, is divided into a number of port... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189485 | Method for allocating and configuring tandem connection monitoring (TCM) A method for allocating and configuring TCM in an embodiment of the present invention includes: configuring the domain that needs TCM in a network and the scope of the domain; determining the ODU service that needs TCM; and allocating TCM automatically according to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189509 | Method of controlling packet data traffic The application relates to a method of controlling packet data traffic of a packet service in a communication network 10, where in accordance with the packet service a communication with a terminal 12 involves a terminal serving entity 101 and a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189493 | Method for triggering a measurement report of mobile terminal In a wireless mobile communications system, a method for transmitting and receiving a measurement report of a mobile terminal is provided. A network transmits a paging message to the mobile terminal for performing the measurement report or transmits a PDU (Protocol ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184609 | System and method for random access in a wireless communication system The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for random access in a wireless communication system. In one example, the method includes allocating first and second random access orthogonal frequency subbands to first and second subdivisions, respec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184636 | Information processing device and method, and computer readable medium for packetizing and depacketizing data The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and program, whereby unnecessary standby time can be reduced in depacketizing processing, and processing can be performed easily and at high speed. A common header creating unit 203... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184590 | Method and system for handoff between wireless networks A method and system for operating a standalone client in a dual-mode mobile communications device to hand off a call between first and second wireless networks operating under different communications protocols, using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and ISDN User ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184595 | Method, apparatus and system for obtaining location area information during handover between heterogeneous networks A method obtains area information during handover between heterogeneous networks. A mobility management entity of a destination network receives location area related information of a User Equipment (UE) from a mobility management entity of a source network. The mob... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184569 | Method for terminal to join multicast broadcast service in wireless network and system using thereof A method for a terminal to join a multicast broadcast service (MBS) in a wireless network and a wireless communication system are provided, so as to enable a terminal to successfully join an MBS and receive MBS content. The method and the system relate to a wireless... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184604 | Wireless communication apparatus capable of performing aggregated transmission When a communication is performed between an access point and a wireless terminal according to the IEEE 802.11 of a wireless LAN communication, a MAC layer block of a wireless communication apparatus used as the access point adds an identifier showing a support of a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184534 | Systems and methods of providing proxy-based quality of service Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179829 | Delivery of multicast and uni-cast services in an OFDMA system A method of operating a radio telecommunications network including, a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) each transmitting on a respective transmission bandwidth, and one or more mobile terminals (MTs) each having a respective maximum reception bandwidth,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179828 | Precoding matrix index feedback interaction with discontinuous reception A user equipment (UE) is provided that includes a processor configured to transmit a preceding matrix index (PMI) using one of an assigned periodic PMI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) opera... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179847 | Interactive white list prompting to share content and services associated with a femtocell System(s) and method(s) provide access management to femtocell service through access control list(s) (e.g., white list(s)). A white list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes or tokens, and also can include additional fields for femto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179859 | Roaming encoded information reading terminal A portable encoded information reading (EIR) terminal for incorporation in a data collection system having a host computer, a plurality of peer EIR terminals, and a plurality of interconnected networks including one or more wireless networks, can comprise a central ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179774 | Cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission Embodiments related to far-end cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission systems are depicted and described herein. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179793 | Method for managing data transmission according to a quality of service in a network assembly and a computer network system The invention relates to a new type of quality of service architecture for a network assembly and a corresponding computer network system. The Internet technology as approved by the IETF organization has defined different services. One is the integrated services (In... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179794 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing quality of service brokering in a network. Methods include receiving a data packet at a router in an Internet protocol (IP) network. The data packet includes a data packet ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179925 | Sink device for a wireless local area network The invention discloses a sink device and a signal receiving method thereof, applicable to wireless local area network. The sink device receives a plurality of beacon signals, synchronizes the beacon output signal generated by itself with the operating clock of the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179977 | Method of apparatus for processing a signal The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a signal. An object of the present invention devised to solve the problem lies on a method and apparatus for processing a signal, which allows a signal having optimized signal transmission effici... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179819 | Method for transmitting and receiving signals using collaborative MIMO scheme A method for reducing inter-cell interference and a method for transmitting a signal by a collaborative MIMO scheme, in a communication system having a multi-cell environment are disclosed. An example of a method for transmitting, by a mobile station, precoding info... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179881 | Method for allocating time and frequency resource for resource request indicator, method for transmitting resource request indicator and device thereof A method for allocating a time and frequency resource of a resource request indicator (RRI), a method for transmitting an RRI, and a device thereof are provided, which relate to a wireless communication technique and reduce the overhead of the time and frequency res... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179912 | System and method for providing timer affinity through engine polling within a session-based server deployment The session-based server deployment is comprised of an engine tier that is designed for high throughput processing of communications and a state tier that maintains state information for access by the engine tier. The engine tier includes a plurality of engine nodes... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179863 | Wireless communication apparatus and method A wireless communication apparatus comprises a determination unit to determine whether to increase the number of reference signals to be included in a downlink signal based on an uplink signal. The wireless communication apparatus further comprises a mapping unit to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179867 | Apparatus and method for transmission opportunity in mesh network An apparatus and method of transmission opportunity in a mesh network is disclosed. A beacon timing from a receiver MP is received. The beacon timing includes a beacon reception timing of a received beacon frame that is received by the receiver MP from a neighboring... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179880 | Wireless communication method and wireless communication system A time synchronizing signal for synchronizing the times of wireless nodes capable of wireless communication is transmitted to the wireless nodes by multihop. Optional information is transferred by multihop from a predetermined wireless node to an optional node along... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179808 | Network path tracing method Systems and methods for gathering troubleshooting information through one or more networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises a switch port configured to receive a frame that has information added by another switch. As the frame traverses the net... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174980 | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically rate limiting slowpath processing of exception packets The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for dynamically rate limiting slowpath processing of exception packets. According to one embodiment, a method includes monitoring processing resources in a packet forwarding device used for performing ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175004 | Apparatus and method for gathering and reporting interference signal information between relay stations in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system An apparatus and method for gathering and reporting interference signal information between Relay Stations (RSs) in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, from the RS, scanning information ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175010 | System and method for providing simultaneous multiple push-to-talk over cellular multimedia service A system and method provide simultaneous multiple push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) multimedia service, and enable a PoC client performing an OMA PoC multimedia communication service to be simultaneously provided with a plurality of media streams, and also allo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175027 | Communication method and gateway apparatus A communication method in a gateway apparatus includes a transmission step of transmitting and receiving packets to and from a mobile station device, and transmitting and receiving packets to and from a home agent; and a setting step of establishing settings such th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174961 | Switch control device The present invention relates to a switch controlling apparatus. The switch controlling apparatus controls a main switch by using a first signal that corresponds to a current flowing to the main switch. The switch controlling apparatus includes a PWM controller for ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175079 | Device and method for reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network A device and method enable reestablishing a wireless connection in a wireless network. A first wireless device detects that a previous wireless connection has been lost with a second wireless device that employs dynamic frequency selection (DFS). The first wireless ... | 05/08/2012 |
