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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090214036 | AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS Security techniques and security mechanisms for wireless networks that transmit content such as advertisements. According to exemplary techniques, control messages comprising unrequested content (e.g., advertisement data) may be transmitted in response to a request from... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090190535 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH CARRIER SENSE A communication system in which an access point and one or more devices communicating through the access point adaptively apply Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). The access point may assign orthogonal subcarriers to devices as in conventional OFDMA,... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090175182 | Differentiated service transmission parameters adaptation Systems and methods are provided for transmitting data on a wireless network. Some embodiments provide a technique whereby a type is determined for the transmission, at least one metric is determined for the transmission based at least in part on the transmission type a... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090156129 | SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO ARCHITECTURE A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components configure the data processing components so that the software def... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090154432 | COMPUTER RADIO WITH PRE-DEFINED CONFIGURATION SET A computer with a software defined radio that can be configured based on a wireless technology specification. The computer may negotiate with a second computer that also includes a software defined radio to define a set of wireless technology specifications and trigger ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090156191 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE ANTENNA A computing device with a configurable antenna. The antenna is configured through a switching circuit operating under software control. Operating characteristics of the antenna are configured based on connections between conducting segments established by the switching ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090141660 | Policy enforcement for multi-radio transmission and reception A process for controlling radio transmission and/or reception to enforce certain constraints with either single or multiple radio communication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the enforcement control may be by the corporate administrator (such as an Information Technol... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090093956 | Transmitting location data in wireless networks A wireless access point in a wireless network that may be adapted to transmit location data indicating its location to other devices within range, including other wireless access points and client devices. In some embodiments of the invention, the location data may be e... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090094111 | Advertising framework for wireless networks An advertising framework for transmitting advertisements from wireless access points to client devices that need not be connected to the wireless access point. The client device can display the advertisements on a user interface of the client device. Such advertisements... | 04/09/2009 |