Patents Examined by Munjal Patel
  • Patent number: 8055314
    Abstract: A method and system for determining standby time for a mobile station uses a battery simulator, a base station emulator, a computer to control the test equipment and MSUT for testing a mobile station. The computer includes a module for determining a radio off battery voltage, a module for deriving a battery capacity in dependence upon the radio off battery voltage, a module for measuring battery capacity usage in a predetermined time while the mobile station is in standby mode and a module for determining a standby time for the mobile station in dependence upon the battery capacity and the battery capacity usage, where the predetermined time is less than the standby time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Jennifer Anne Elizabeth Mallalieu, Fiona Shearer
  • Patent number: 8036726
    Abstract: A sliding module for a portable terminal which has a first housing and a second housing sliding on the first housing is disclosed, the sliding module slidably coupling the first and second housings. The sliding module includes a sliding plate mounted on a surface of the first housing; at least one guide rod mounted on a surface of the second housing and slidably coupled to the sliding plate, the guide rod being extended in the longitudinal direction of the second housing; at least one first guide rib formed on the sliding plate; and at least one second guide rib formed on the surface of the second housing, wherein the second guide rib is slidably engaged with the first guide rib, and maintains at least partial engagement with the first guide rib within a sliding range of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jeong-Seok Park, Kwang-Ho Jung, Kwang-Su Seo, Jong-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 7978664
    Abstract: A multimode-multiband terminal includes an RF antenna for transceiving a CDMA-2000 signal and/or a WCDMA signal; an RF transceiver for demodulating a WCDMA pilot signal received from the RF antenna and outputting the demodulated WCDMA pilot signal; a pilot signal measurement unit for measuring an intensity of the demodulated WCDMA pilot signal to generate an Ec/Io; a WCDMA modem and a CDMA-2000 modem for performing a call processing according to protocols defined by a WCDMA standard and a CDMA-2000 standard, respectively; a flash memory for storing therein a modem-to-modem switching program capable of performing a switching between the WCDMA modem and the CDMA-2000 modem based on the Ec/Io; and a controller for loading the modem-to-modem switching program and activating the CDMA-2000 modem if a time lapse during which the Ec/Io is maintained smaller than a predetermined CDMA-2000 ON threshold THON is greater than a preset CDMA-2000 ON condition time Hd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Iak Kim
  • Patent number: 7978678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, by which new control information can be transmitted more quickly. The present invention comprises transmitting a first data block comprising control information for transmitting first data when no resources for the transmission of the first data are available, receiving second data from an upper layer to be transmitted, wherein the second data has a higher priority than the first data, and transmitting a second data block comprising updated control information for transmitting the first and second data when no resources for the transmission of the first and second data are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Myung Cheul Jung
  • Patent number: 7978679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, by which new control information can be transmitted more quickly. The present invention comprises transmitting a first data block comprising control information for transmitting first data when no resources for the transmission of the first data are available, receiving second data from an upper layer to be transmitted, wherein the second data has a higher priority than the first data, and transmitting a second data block comprising updated control information for transmitting the first and second data when no resources for the transmission of the first and second data are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dee Lee, Myung Cheul Jung
  • Patent number: 7950042
    Abstract: A system and method of reducing a channel switching delay in TDM mobile television systems comprises transmitting a sequence of data bursts associated with channels for reception on a RF channel bandwidth received on a mobile television receiver; switching between an active state of transmission and a non-active state of transmission during reception of channels on the RF channel bandwidth, wherein the active state of transmission comprises transmission of data bursts associated with user-preferred channels and the non-active state of transmission comprises transmission of data bursts associated with user non-preferred channels; anticipating a particular user-preferred channel that a user will likely switch to during reception of channels on the RF channel bandwidth; decoding the sequence of data bursts during the active state of transmission; buffering one decoded data burst for each of the user-preferred channels; and replacing a previously buffered data burst with a newly buffered data burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Newport Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Nabil Yousef
  • Patent number: 7907578
    Abstract: To ameliorate interference between an indoor wireless pico cell system, for example in an aircraft, and public wireless communications systems operating in a surrounding or over-flown area, frequencies of operation of the indoor system are coordinated with those used by the public wireless systems in the surrounding area. The pico cell system operates one type of service on all or a portion of a band used for a different type of service by the public system. In the aircraft example, a pico cell system might support GSM narrowband service and CDMA broadband service. The airborne GSM operations use a portion, e.g. corresponding to a guard band, of CDMA service spectrum in the terrestrial network. The airborne CDMA service uses a band used for GSM service by the terrestrial network. The pico cell system dynamically changes its frequency band(s), as the aircraft flies over different areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Richard Lee Harvey, Sean Patrick Haynberg, William Howard Stone, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7881269
    Abstract: A method for channel management in a wireless network is disclosed. The method begins by a mobile client device receiving active channel information corresponding to active channels from infrastructure devices. Based upon the active channel information, the mobile client device selects an infrastructure device for communicating data for at least one of the media type access categories utilizing one of the active channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Deanna Hong
  • Patent number: 7873393
    Abstract: A method and system for determining standby time for a mobile station uses a battery simulator, a base station emulator, a computer to control the test equipment and MSUT for testing a mobile station. The computer includes a module for determining a radio off battery voltage, a module for deriving a battery capacity in dependence upon the radio off battery voltage, a module for measuring battery capacity usage in a predetermined time while the mobile station is in standby mode and a module for determining a standby time for the mobile station in dependence upon the battery capacity and the battery capacity usage, where the predetermined time is less than the standby time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Jennifer Anne Elizabeth Mallalieu, Fiona Shearer
  • Patent number: 7855994
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system, multiple transceivers perform radio communications in the same frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Takatoshi Sugiyama, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7848268
    Abstract: A network includes a plurality of logical access entities. Each access entity includes one or more communication interfaces. The network further includes a plurality of logical node entities. Each logical node entity includes one or more communication interfaces that are configured to wirelessly communicate in a redundant manner with any of the logical access entities. In an embodiment, a communication degradation in the network is assessed, and the network is configured as a function of that assessment to provide fault tolerance within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ramakrishua Boyina, Jagadeesh Brahmajosyula, Vinayak S. Kore, Arun V. Mahasenan, Srivastava Namburi, Amit S. Punpale
  • Patent number: 7821987
    Abstract: A wireless wide area network (WWAN) mobile gateway is configured to execute a selected communication protocol from a plurality of communication protocols to communicate with a connected WWAN modem card connected through a WWAN device interface. The connected WWAN modem card is one of a plurality of WWAN modem cards where each of the WWAN modem cards is configured to communicate using one of the plurality of communication protocols and includes a WWAN transceiver for exchanging WWAN signals with a WWAN communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Romeo Hernandez Rodriguez, Arockia Sunder, Kotaro Matsuo, Michael D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7773568
    Abstract: A inter-station transmission method of extending time allocated for a transmission path delay of an inter-station transmission path within a predetermined turnaround time, and increasing an inter-station transmission distance. A radio base station reproduces a clock synchronized with a BSU transmission clock DCLK used when transmitting downlink transmission data from a communication control station. The radio base station processes the downlink transmission data. The clock synchronization eliminates a necessity of data format conversion between the communication control station and the radio base station, a buffer accumulating transmission data in preparation for the conversion is not necessary. This reduces a turnaround time of a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Yamasaki, Hitoshi Takai
  • Patent number: 7734279
    Abstract: Access to resources is controlled via a mobile terminal operatively connected to a network operator, wherein the mobile terminal has an associated authentication module configured for authenticating the mobile terminal with the network operator. The method includes the steps of providing in the mobile terminal at least one facility having authentication capability and adapted for accessing the resources, and authenticating the authentication module with the at least one facility, whereby the at least one facility is authenticated with the network operator via the authentication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Fantini, Fabio Ricciato, Maura Turolla
  • Patent number: 7715360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, by which new control information can be transmitted more quickly. The present invention comprises transmitting a first data block comprising control information for transmitting first data when no resources for the transmission of the first data are available, receiving second data from an upper layer to be transmitted, wherein the second data has a higher priority than the first data, and transmitting a second data block comprising updated control information for transmitting the first and second data when no resources for the transmission of the first and second data are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duck Chun, Young Dae Lee, Myung Cheul Jung
  • Patent number: 7554945
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for receiving data in a mobile station for a mobile communication system using multi-user packet data are provided, in which a preamble power measurer measures preamble power of the multi-user packet data received from a base station and transmits the result value to a controller. The controller compares the measured power with a predetermined threshold, simultaneously decodes the multi-user packet data according to all transport formats if the measured power is lower than the threshold, and decodes the multi-user packet data according to a predetermined transport format if the measured power is higher than or equal to the threshold. A plurality of decoders decode the received multi-user packet data according to a control signal from the controller, wherein the number of the decoders depends upon the total number of transport formats for the multi-user packet data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Jun Lee, Sung-Kwon Jo, Ji-Won Lee, Ki-Seob Hong, Yun-Seok Choi