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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184551 | Throughput-based rate adaptation for wireless transmissions A system and method of throughput-based transmission rate adaptation for wireless transmissions is provided. An adapted transmission rate is determined based on transmission feedback from previous wireless frame transmissions. The adapted transmission rate is determ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179882 | Voice over internet call center integration An internet telephony system (ITS) comprising a browser display having a hyperlink, communicating with a server, retrieving a user's preferences, and initiating a voice communication with the user, through a communications channel defined by the user preferences. An... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179775 | Precoding matrix feedback processes, circuits and systems An electronic device includes a first circuit (111) operable to generate a precoding matrix index (PMI) vector associated with a plurality of configured subbands, and further operable to form a compressed PMI vector from the PMI vector wherein the compressed ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174975 | Network adapter with TCP support In general, in one aspect, described herein is a request to offload at least one TCP operation including offload of TCP transmit flow control. Also described is interception of at least some TCP acknowledgements and the handling of TCP flow control based on the TCP ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169946 | Aircraft communications system with hard handoff and associated methods A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network comprising spaced apart base stations, and an acce... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165050 | System and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network A system and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a short beacon comprising PHY information, wherein the short beacon excludes MAC information and transmitting the short... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165026 | Method and apparatus to report and manage cells in a multi carrier system Methods and apparatuses for facilitating managing cells in a multi-carrier system from an access terminal and base station are provided. The base station and access terminal communicate via an anchor carrier and a supplementary carrier. A triggering algorithm genera... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159965 | Method of comparing state variable or packet sequence number for a wireless communications system and related apparatus A method of comparing a state variable or a sequence number, hereinafter called SN, of a packet with modulus arithmetic for a receiving terminal of a wireless communications system includes determining an SN range of a receiving window and using a minimum SN of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159952 | Data packet traffic scheduling Techniques of scheduling data packets are disclosed. For example, such data packet scheduling techniques may be employed to schedule data packets on wired and/or wireless networks. An example embodiment includes techniques for scheduling voice-over-Internet protocol... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154998 | Method and apparatus for resizing a trunk in a network A method and apparatus for resizing a trunk in a network are disclosed. For example, the method sets one or more target utilization levels for one or more trunks, and gathers trunk load data from one or more switches in the network in accordance with a pre-determine... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155033 | Opportunistic spectrum sensing optimization for a communication system A combination of subscriber clustering and link interleaving provides a cognitive radio system (CR) 100 with opportunities to sense an incumbent system's spectrum on secondary basis. The CR system (100) uses clustering to identify out-of-band channels.... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144656 | Mobile communication method, mobile communication system and radio base station The radio base station includes: a step of making a comparison between transmission format identification information received from the mobile station and transmission format identification information based on a data amount calculated in a step of calculating the d... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130670 | Power consumption management in a MIMO transceiver and method for use therewith A mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver that receives a first inbound RF signal and that transmits a first outbound RF signal based on a first power supply signal. A second wireless transceiver receives a second inbound RF signal and that... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130706 | Wireless communication method and apparatus for supporting reconfiguration of radio link control parameters A variety of wireless communication methods and apparatus for supporting reconfiguration of radio link control (RLC) parameters are disclosed. A radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message is generated that indicates that an RLC unit in a wireless transmit/... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121052 | Framework for internetworking between WMAN and WLAN networks According to one general aspect, a method of using a customer premises equipment (CPE) to represent a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS) is described. Wherein the CPE and the BS are part of a first wireless network based upon a first networking standard, and... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116217 | Wireless communication apparatus, method and program storage medium A wireless communication apparatus having a wireless communication function capable of using a plurality of transmission rates. The wireless communication apparatus includes utilization-factor calculation section for calculating a utilization factor of a wireless tr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111667 | Wireless transceiver In a MIMO wireless transceiver, priority control that judges priority of transmit data and a transmission mode table are provided to control an option as to which transmission system SDM or STBC is selected, coding rate and modulation method based on a transmission ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107393 | Method and apparatus for estimating a signal-to-interference ratio A method and apparatus for estimating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) are disclosed. A received signal includes signal energy on multiple basis functions. Desired signal energy in the received signal is transformed onto a first basis function with constant pola... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098631 | Group MMSE-DFD with rate (SINR) feedback and without pre-determined decoding order for reception on a cellular downlink The invention is a method directed to group MMSE-DFD with rate (SINR) feedback and without pre-determined decoding order for reception on a cellular downlink. The method includes initializing channel matrix estimates and inner codes of all co-channel transmitter sou... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098609 | Integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast traffic in relay-enabled wireless networks A wireless network with integrated scheduling of unicast and multicast users in a relay-enabled two-hop wireless network is disclosed. In this system, users with finite buffers are considered and scheduled over multiple channels in an OFDMA-based wireless network. T... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098589 | System and method for exchanging awareness information in a network environment A method for communicating packets in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a packet at a network element and identifying a sequence number included in the packet that correlates to awareness information associated with one or more adjacent netwo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098598 | Emulating a removable mass storage device A communication system receives, via a wireless communication link, a packet of data from a mobile communication device that is connected to, and enumerated by, a computer system as a locally attached mass storage device. The communication system sends this packet o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094605 | Aircraft communications system with network selection controller and associated methods A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and a satellite-based communications network. An ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085667 | Wireless relay apparatus and wireless relay method A wireless relay apparatus capable of high-quality transmission of data includes a wireless control unit and a data link communication unit wirelessly receiving and transmitting data. The wireless relay apparatus also includes a congestion status determining unit de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085680 | Multi-mode mobile networking device Establishing a mobile ad-hoc network between mobile network devices may include transmitting a signal from a first mobile network device using a plurality of communications formats. One or more other mobile network devices may receive the broadcast signal, select a ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085658 | System and method of cross-chip flow control A system and method of controlling data flow may take into account an egress port flow control configuration as well as an original ingress port flow control configuration. A queue controller may execute a flow control algorithm or a quality of service algorithm res... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8072875 | Avoiding collisions between users if MAP containing persistent scheduling information is lost Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAP may be used by a base station to allocate network users for one or more users in a wireless network using persistent scheduling. In the event one or more of the users does not successfully receive a MAP tran... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068410 | Bias correction for scrubbing providers A decision about provider quality based on a quality metric observed says little about the quality of the provider. Further, the decision may be biased by a variation in customer contributions to the quality metric observed or by a variation in a number of completed... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068407 | Group MMSE-DFD with order and filter computation for reception on a cellular downlink The present method resides in a user destination receiver to exploit the structure of the transmitted signals to design filters that yield improved performance. Moreover, the computational cost of designing these filters can be reduced and the demodulation complexit... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064332 | Avoiding collisions between users if map containing persistent scheduling information is lost Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAP may be used by a base station to allocate network users for one or more users in a wireless network using persistent scheduling. In the event one or more of the users does not successfully receive a MAP tran... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064344 | Flow-based queuing of network traffic A method is provided for queuing packets. A packet may be received and its flow identified. It may then be determined whether a flow queue has been assigned to the identified flow. The identified flow may be dynamically assigning to an available flow queue when it i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045490 | Voice over internet call center integration An internet telephony system (ITS) comprising a browser display having a hyperlink, communicating with a server, retrieving a user's preferences, and initiating a voice communication with the user, through a communications channel defined by the user preferences. An... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040815 | Spectrum coordination controller A method, wireless controller, and information processing system that define communication channel allocation. Communication channel allocation commands associated with a first network are monitored (102). The first network (102) comprises a plurality ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036154 | Device and method for saving power in digital broadcasting receiver A device and a method are provided for saving electric power consumed in a digital broadcasting receiver. The device and method includes acquiring information regarding a transmission order of all service channels, calculating a delay relationship between an arbitra... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8018859 | Method and apparatus for asynchronous alarm correlation A method and apparatus for providing asynchronous alarm correlation in packet networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives a trigger, and performs an asynchronous correlation of at least one root cause alarm with at least one symptom alarm. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014265 | Eigen-beamforming for wireless communication systems Techniques for sending multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions in wireless communication systems are described. In one design, a transmitter sends a first reference signal via a first link, e.g., a cell-specific reference signal via the downlink. The tra... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014286 | Frame relay switched data service A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009555 | Mechanism for transparent real-time media server fail-over with idle-state nodes In one embodiment, a mechanism for transparent real-time media server fail-over with idle-state nodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes replicating a start time of a request related to a bidirectional stream of media sent to an original master media... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009617 | Beamforming of control information in a wireless communication system Techniques for sending traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a Node B or a UE) may perform beamforming to send traffic data on M layers based on a precoding matrix, where M may be o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004977 | Method of implementing packet-based resource allocation and persistent resource allocation in a wireless communication system The present invention provides a method of allocating resources in a wireless communication system. The method includes requesting persistent allocation of resources for a data spurt in response to detecting the beginning of the data spurt and performing non-persist... | 08/23/2011 |
