Patents Examined by Lameka J Kirk
  • Patent number: 7920874
    Abstract: A position estimating system capable of accurately estimating the position assumed by a target terminal user based upon measurement of wireless reception signal levels of signals from a target terminal is provided. The position estimating system includes a target terminal that wirelessly transmits a position estimation request, a plurality of reference terminals disposed at specific positions which, measure the signal strength of wireless signals from the target terminal and a position estimating server that estimates the position of the target terminal based upon the reception signal levels measured in correspondence to each of the reference terminals. The reference terminals each include a reception signal level utilization OK/NG judgment unit that makes a judgment as to whether or not the reception signal level value having been measured is to be used in position estimation based upon an index indicating the level of reliability of the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Fukui
  • Patent number: 7912003
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data across a wireless mesh network is described which uses network coding at each of the intermediate nodes between the source node and the destination node. Each intermediate node also controls the rate at which it broadcasts packets based on link congestion and the backlog of packets at each of the possible next-hop nodes for the data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bozidar Radunovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Peter B. Key, Dinan Gunawardena, Wenjun Hu, Pablo Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 7890111
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for call routing from a wired telephone switch. A wireless device is registered with a database of the wired telephone switch. Incoming wireless calls destined for the wireless device are routed to a standard telephone. The wireless device is unregistered to disable the call routing to the standard telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC
    Inventor: Michael K. Bugenhagen
  • Patent number: 7889688
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus has a battery, a transmit buffer for temporarily accumulating packets to be sent, a battery state monitoring unit for monitoring a battery state of the battery, and a traffic control unit. The traffic control unit determines a packet burst length and an interval time between the packet bursts in order to obtain charge recovery effect based on the battery state, and controls so as to take out data packets of the packet burst length from the transmit buffer for every interval time between the packet bursts of the packet burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kitahara, Hajime Nakamura, Satoshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 7869827
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for encapsulating upper layers of CDMA signaling messages between a multi-mode device and a signaling gateway. In an exemplary embodiment, a multi-mode device has a CDMA mode and a Wi-Fi mode. In Wi-Fi mode, the device generates an upper-layer portion of a CDMA signaling message. The device then encapsulates the first upper-layer portion in at least one packet-switched-protocol, such as SIP. The device then transmits the encapsulated upper-layer portion of the CDMA signaling message via a Wi-Fi network and a packet-switched network to a signaling gateway, which then translates the upper-layer portion into an SS7 message, and transmits the SS7 message over an SS7 network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Dan Durig, Arun Santharam, Robert C. Lamb
  • Patent number: 7787406
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are described. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to adaptively change a snoozing interval of a station. The embodiments may also include determining a timeout (TO) period for a station, examining network traffic of the station after a period of network traffic inactivity not less than the TO period, and determining a snoozing interval, the length of the snoozing interval based upon the examination of the network traffic. The embodiments may also include adjusting the length of the TO period. In some further embodiments, examining network traffic may include determining categories of network traffic. In other further embodiments, examining network traffic may include determining a size of a queue of network traffic for the station. The embodiments may also include redetermining a snoozing interval after returning to a normal power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Tsai James
  • Patent number: 7764946
    Abstract: SMS alert messages are provided to the current geographic location of a registered SMS subscriber. When an SMS subscriber's mobile device is registered, the subscriber's profile is analyzed to determine if the subscriber wants to receive alert messages via SMS. If so, cell sites associated with the current location of the subscriber are utilized to provide alert messages. As the subscriber register's his/her mobile device in other geographic locations, the current location of the subscriber is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Cingular Wireless II, LLC
    Inventors: DeWayne Allan Sennett, Brian Kevin Daly
  • Patent number: 7738875
    Abstract: Method for estimating position information of base stations as well as terminals for three dimensional centralized real-time spectrum management to achieve high spectral efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises i) understanding the position information of plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of terminals and the base stations form a wireless network, ii) determining, at the central controller, position of a terminal via plurality of communication wirelessly between the base stations and a terminal and between the base station and the central controller, iii) applying network wide real time knowledge at the central controller to electronically steerable antennas to use a resource in a different direction then where it is used by other base stations to achieve frequency reuse of one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Wichorus Inc
    Inventors: Rehan Jalil, Mustafa Ergen
  • Patent number: 7302238
    Abstract: A transmit diversity system, method, and computer program product which can prevent signal power from being wasted and also prevent interference between a plurality of beams. In the transmit diversity system, a transmitter transmits a signal after allocating the signal to a beamspace of multiple beams and a receiver receives the multiple beams and obtains a channel estimate of each of the multiple beams. A beam pair, which has the largest sum of powers of respective channel estimates of two corresponding beams, is selected from a plurality of beam pairs of the multiple beams. One of the two beams of the selected beam pair is selected as a single beam for use if the difference between the powers of the respective channel estimates of the two beams is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujil